The MIT Department of Architecture is welcoming applications for its inaugural Summer Teaching Workshop, hosted by the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art Group May 28-June 1.
This intimate four-day intensive Workshop will give early- and mid-career instructors teaching architectural history at the undergraduate level the opportunity to collaboratively discuss and develop materials and methods for survey and introductory courses.
The goal is to create space and time for intimate dialogue about pedagogy, and to allow early- and mid-career teacher-scholars to learn from one another’s experiences in the classroom.
The theme of this year’s Workshop is Global Environmental History.
The Workshop will provide a stipend to reimburse travel and accommodations in Cambridge MA during the duration of the Workshop (varies based on distance travelled). Additionally, participants will receive a $500 honorarium and two MIT-funded group dinners.
Eligibility
To be eligible to apply for this Workshop, you must:
- Be a PhD-holding early- or mid-career scholar in a teaching position (pre-tenure or non-tenure-track)
- Have taught or are currently teaching an undergraduate course, preferably at the introductory or survey level
- Have developed or are developing a course in architectural history, broadly defined, that is aligned with the Workshop theme (this year, architecture as it intersects with environment, climate, and nature broadly conceived, ideally in a global or multi-regional
framework).
1-page cover letter summarizing your teaching experience, current or upcoming teaching obligations, and what you’re hoping to contribute to and gain from the Workshop
Sample syllabus (i.e., a syllabus related to the Workshop theme that you’d like to develop at the Workshop)
Workshop Requirements
In advance of the four-day Workshop, successful applicants will be required to do the following:
Attend a short meeting over Zoom at the end of April
Submit Workshop materials (syllabus, assignment or assessment brief, and slides and notes for a 40-minute lesson to a shared folder open to all Workshop participants) by May 14
Travel to MIT and in-person attendance during all Workshop sessions is mandatory.
