104: AU Signature Skills Demo: Critical Analysis and Common Ground

Session Location: Library Café Room B30 | Google Map

Date: Wednesday, August 19

Time: 9:15 AM – 10:15 AM

Presenters: Caroline Figueiredo Hausmann (Assistant Director of Graduate Career Development, Kogod School of Business and Adjunct Instructor, CAS | Sociology), Daniel Richter (Adjunct Senior Professorial Lecturer, CAS | History), Johannes U. Lange (Assistant Professor, CAS | Physics) & Kurt Braddock (Assistant Professor, SOC | Public Communication)

Moderator: Anna Olsson (Assistant Vice Provost, Center for Faculty Excellence)

Session Description:

Join us for one of eight sessions where faculty discuss the process of integrating AU Signature Skills into assignments and classroom activities. In this session, faculty panelists will share how they integrated the Signature Skills critical use of evidence and sources and principled disagreement and seeking common ground into courses focused on how knowledge is created, interpreted, and challenged in social settings.

The AU Signature Skills were developed by a group of AU faculty and staff this spring to operationalize AU’s goal to help students develop into thoughtful and engaged professionals, and are an extension of AU’s Meet Our Moment Strategic Plan.