Seeking PhD candidates to teach an interdisciplinary course, The Wicked Problem of Climate Change
As part of the University’s strategic plans to develop talent for a complex world and focus on interdisciplinary scholarship, a team of PhD candidates will come together in winter and spring 2025 to re-design and co-teach a course related to contemporary Wicked Problems. The course will be offered to upper-year undergraduate students from across the University to create a community of scholars, sharing different perspectives from the PhD candidate instructors and the learners in the classroom.
The course, offered in spring 2025, will focus on the Wicked Problem of Accessibility. We know there are brilliant doctoral researchers across the University who are immersed in studying accessibility from interdisciplinary perspectives, addressing research on intersectionality and disability identities; historical and cultural representations of disability and accessibility; technological advances to support access and inclusion; integrating accessibility into the design of programs, buildings, cities, and community areas; considering physical, developmental, cognitive, and learning disabilities; mental health; social justice; policy development; the representation of accessibility and disability in media and literature; disability advocacy, among others.
Many of these researchers may also welcome the opportunity to be part of an interdisciplinary teaching team that will provide undergraduate students with a classroom experience where the academic content spans disciplinary boundaries.
The selected PhD candidates will work as a team to re-design the course (previously offered in Winter 2023 and Spring 2024) and will receive training in the winter 2025 term from mentors in the Teaching Innovation Incubator. In the spring 2025 term, the team will collectively deliver the course to senior undergraduate students. Instructors will receive financial support for their contributions to the University’s teaching mission.
We encourage PhD candidates to apply using the online application form – details can be found on The Wicked Problem of Accessibility Teaching Innovation Incubator website. The deadline to apply is Monday, November 19, 2024, by end of day.