GEOG 6160: Professional and Career Development Issues

Preparing for a Career in Higher Education

This seminar focuses on issues important in the first years of a faculty career from graduate school to tenure.  Stress is placed on strategies for balancing research, teaching, service, and personal life to achieve success and satisfaction. Topics addressed include good practice in designing and using learning materials; understanding the job-search and hiring process; grant writing; publishing; formulating a professional development plan; creating teaching portfolios; understanding the role of ethics and values in teaching and research; and managing time and stress.  Schedules to be offered in Spring 2008.

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Dr. Ken Foote: Instructor
k.foote@colorado.edu
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Last revised 2007.4.10.  KEF