Kristin Patterson

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Associate Professor of Instruction
Director

Initiative Focus
Curriculum Redesign
Skill-Building

Kristin Patterson is the Fourth-Year Fellow Representative on the 2021 Provost's Teaching Fellows Steering Committee.

Department
Molecular Biosciences
College
College of Natural Sciences
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Strategic Course Redesign Focused on Professional Skills

Cohort: 2018
Fellow: Kristin Patterson

The goal of this project is to shift the focus of a set of introductory courses, that are heavy in disciplinary content, in order to make space for greater emphasis on professional skills, such as information literacy, quantitative reasoning, communication, and others. The main challenge in accomplishing the goal is that the particular courses involved have high-enrollment—2300 undergraduates enroll in each course each year and they are taught by a team of 13 faculty. Because many faculty teach the courses, it is difficult to standardize the curriculum and the expectations across sections.