Date: Thursday 4th May
Time: 11am to 2pm, with lunch provided
Venue: Room 1.37, Iontas Building.
The Dean of Teaching and Learning Seminar Series is delighted to host this masterclass in conjunction with Dr Rita Sakr, Department of English, that is aimed at supporting and developing best practice and innovative methods in teaching and learning in the broad area of migration primarily in the FACSP while being open to colleagues across MU, with respect to:
1) Designing cross-departmental modules and programmes while rigorously addressing the challenges and opportunities offered by such collaborative initiatives (taking into consideration (inter)disciplinary frameworks, assessment strategies, etc.)
2) Identifying specifically relevant employability skills for implementation in module design/course curriculum
3) Integrating research-led teaching with engaged and partnership research pathways through experiential learning (especially by involving the NGO and IGO sectors).
4) Establishing frameworks for continued, sustainable intra- and inter-faculty collaboration in teaching and learning development in the area of migration studies through workshops, conferences etc.
Professor Parvati Nair, former Head of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary University of London; Professor of Hispanic, Cultural and Migration Studies; and previously Founding Director of the United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility, will deliver this masterclass that aims at setting a very solid groundwork for further teaching and learning development opportunities for the significant number of FACSP, and more broadly MU, colleagues involved in teaching in the broad area of migration; for curricular revision of relevant programmes and the exploration of further collaborative possibilities (including interdisciplinary undergraduate pathways and doctoral programmes in this area); and for embedding state-of-the-art methods with respect to integrating interdisciplinary research-led teaching with experiential learning and public engagement in the field of migration.
Please register on Eventbrite.
Please contact Dr Rita Sakr for further details - rita.sakr@mu.ie.