ARCH 509, Section 1

Teaching, including in the education of architects, is becoming more complicated as students are expected to have broader ranges of skill and knowledge while simultaneously cultivating highly specific disciplinary literacy and expertise to contribute well in their engagements today. ‘Learning to Teach’ is a graduate-level seminar functioning as an experimental lab based in research through observation. Through close analysis of architectural studio pedagogy, discussions with guest lecturers, and hands-on experiences such as — participation in critiques, reviews, class visitations, and workshops — students in this seminar will develop practice in thinking pedagogically from intimate exposure whilst building metacognition of one’s own educative experiences. Class meetings will vary weekly in their form and location, and the course concludes with teams of students learning to draft original, speculative, and project-based coursework that synthesizes observations, teaching values, and experience gained from the semester.