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CTF Contact/Mentor
Jamie Batts- Educational Developer – Center for Advancement of Scholarship at Teaching at Goucher College
[email protected]
Multiple Positions Available: One Fellow per course
Goucher College offers CTFP opportunities across a variety of courses in the sciences and beyond. Graduate students and postdoctoral applicants are welcomed. In their CTFP application, candidates should mention specific courses of interest to them. Commitment is for one semester.
The courses listed below are ones whose instructors have expressed interest in working with a teaching fellow. It is possible that additional instructors would be open to the idea if they knew a candidate was interested in their course. For a full listing of courses, see http://catalog.goucher.edu/.
The type of participation and time commitment by the teaching fellow are negotiable between the fellow and the instructor.
FA24 semester (8/22/24 – 12/06/24):
CENTER FOR NATURAL, COMPUTER & DATA SCIENCES:
*DMC 106 Introduction to Statistical Methods (Instructor: Tom Narock )
This course provides an introduction to basic statistical principles, including basic probability, the normal and binomial distributions, hypothesis testing, and confidence intervals. This will culminate with the introduction of correlation and linear and logistic regression. The class focuses on conceptual learning and hands-on problem solving as well as computational tools for the statistical analysis of large data sets.
*DMC 102 Data Analytics for Sustainability (Instructor: Tom Narock)
Trillions of terabytes of data are generated and recorded daily by just using a smartphone, driving a car, or using a credit card. The same is true when goods are shipped across the world, grass is watered in a desert, corporate buildings are lit 24 hours a day, or the Chesapeake Bay is tested for various water pollutants. In this course, we will examine this data and how it shapes our environment. Students will collect, represent, analyze and interpret data from a variety of sources as means to analyze environmental sustainability issues and the debates centered on them. An assortment of software tools will be used to process this data.
*BIO 497 (Capstone in Biological Sciences) (instructor: Judy Levine)
The Biological Sciences and BCMB curricula expose students to a variety of scientific fields and important avenues of research. In their capstone experience, students will examine current literature and research to develop advanced written work that addresses a significant question in modern biology. Working with faculty, students will identify their own topic of interest, research the state of the field, and consider ways to address gaps in knowledge in the field. Career exploration and preparation will occur throughout the capstone.
CHE 341 (Biochemistry) (instructor: Judy Levine)
Structure and function of biological molecules, chemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions, intermediary metabolism. Three hours lecture (no lab component to this course, but a separate biochemistry lab course with this course as a pre-req runs in the spring). Prerequisites: CHE 235 (organic chemistry II) and one college-level general biology course, or permission of the instructor.
PSY233- Sensation and Perception (instructor: Ghirardelli)
This course is a survey of current theory and research in perception. The primary goal is for students to gain an understanding of how people obtain reliable and useful information about the environment around them through their senses. Exploring several perceptual systems, including vision, audition, touch and pain, and smell and taste, we will cover topics such as the physiological structure of sensory systems, psychophysics, attention, sensory integration, and comparative perception. Prerequisite: PSY 105. Fall semester.
CENTER FOR HUMANITIES & INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES:
LAM 105 (Intro to Latin American Studies) (instructor: Citlali Miranda-Aldaco)
This course will introduce students to many cultural, social, and political aspects of the region of the world known as Latin America. Beginning with the various views of what is meant by “Latin American,” the course will give students a more complete picture of the heterogeneous identities of the area. Taking an interdisciplinary, broad approach to regional studies, the course will explore the diverse artistic movements, social organizations, and political institutions that have shaped Latin America in the past and continue to define its present.
WRT181 (Writing Studies)( Instructor: Katherine Cottle)
This course welcomes you into the Goucher Community of Writers and to the creative processes of inquiry, composition, collaboration, revision, and editing. You will develop strategies to read perceptively, think deeply, and write with clarity about complex issues. This course emphasizes research – the thoughtful, responsible use of sources that is part of joining ongoing academic conversations. In this intensive workshop, you will develop the habits of mind and practice of craft that characterize academic writing in all its complicated and graceful forms.
SP25 semester (1/27/25 – 5/08/25):
[these are opportunities known as of 5/15/23 – additional opportunities may be listed in late fall 2024]
CENTER FOR NATURAL, COMPUTER & DATA SCIENCES:
*DMC 345 Introduction to Machine Learning (Instructor: Tom Narock)
The basic theory and practice of machine learning techniques. Topics will vary, but will broadly cover the concepts of regression, classification, learning theory, supervised and unsupervised techniques, deep learning, and reinforcement learning. The course will include programming projects using a standard open source library
*BIO 278 (Developmental Biology) (instructor: Jenny Lenkowski)
The cellular and organism-level processes that occur during typical development of plants and animals will be explored in this course. The central dogma, cell signaling, mitosis, and evolutionary change will be considered in addition to how typical development may be disrupted by the environment. Connections between developmental biology and social issues will be discussed.
CHE 442 (Biochemistry lab) (instructor: Judy Levine)
Introduction to the basic techniques for studying the structure and function of biological molecules. Four hours laboratory. Pre- or corequisite: CHE 341.
CENTER FOR HUMANITIES & INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES:
WRT181 (Writing Studies) Instructor: Katherine Cottle
This course welcomes you into the Goucher Community of Writers and to the creative processes of inquiry, composition, collaboration, revision, and editing. You will develop strategies to read perceptively, think deeply, and write with clarity about complex issues. This course emphasizes research – the thoughtful, responsible use of sources that is part of joining ongoing academic conversations. In this intensive workshop, you will develop the habits of mind and practice of craft that characterize academic writing in all its complicated and graceful forms.
* Indicates potential for $1000 stipend