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Announcements
Colloquium Talk: Thursday, November 4, 2021. Speaker Bachir Diagne of Columbia University
Thursday, Novmber 4th, 2021
Bachir Diagne (Columbia University)
Lead Teaching Fellowship Event ("Teaching Philosophy Writing: Communicating Our Implicit Knowledge") with Devin Morse Tuesday, November 16, 2021 4:10pm – 6:00pm
Description:
Do youstruggle to help your students develop a paper idea that is doable butinteresting to them? Do you wish you knew more about how to explain what a goodphilosophy paper should look like, beyond the standard guides? In thisdiscussion-based workshop we will, in collaboration with a writing pedagogyspecialist from the Writing Center, work to identify and make explicit ourimplicit knowledge of how to write a philosophy paper and what a good paperlooks like, and develop strategies for communicating this knowledge to ourstudents.