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Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (LATHE) Graduate Certificate

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WHAT IS LATHE? Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (LATHE) is a dynamic Certificate Program that focuses on the pedagogical knowledge and practical skills required to teach effectively in higher education.

LATHE combines knowledge and practice about teaching and learning across the disciplines to create a future professoriate fluent in the foundational principles of post-secondary instruction. It will challenge participants to reflect on their practical teaching activities in a scholarly way within their disciplinary context. Earn this Graduate Certificate concurrently with your UVIC Graduate Degree.

Graduates of the program will be able to:

• contribute to discussions concerning important and topical issues in higher education, such as internationalization, globalization, the impact of educational technology, and issues in their own disciplines;

• assess practices and theories of effective university teaching;

• adapt teaching methods to meet the needs of adult learners and of students for whom special considerations might arise from cultural and learning differences;

• provide informative and balanced critical reflections on one’s own and others’ teaching;

• implement effective student engagement strategies;

• prepare a research grant proposal on teaching and learning in one’s discipline;

• develop a revisable teaching dossier to accompany one’s ongoing career in university teaching; and

• compete effectively for an academic position with those who share similar teaching experiences.
  

  Enquiries may be directed to Stacey Brownell, Graduate Program Assistant in
  Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies, at 250-721-7883 or eplsgrad@uvic.ca