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Creating a Welcoming Course: Designing for Inclusion and Connection √ §

Do your course-level outcomes clearly express your goals?

Location

Online

Date & Time

January 22, 2026, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Description

How can your syllabus and learning outcomes welcome students to your course and initiate an inclusive tone? As you get ready for spring semester, your syllabus probably already shares your teaching philosophy, explains how assignments help students meet the requirements, lays out the logistics, and identifies the resources. You’ve drafted your vision for an inclusive classroom culture, but you ….
  • aren’t sure if your course-level outcomes express your “desired results” for student learning; or
  • aren’t sure if your course-level outcomes are clear to students (and other audiences); or
  • aren’t sure how to help students link course-level outcomes to prior, concurrent, and future learning.
When you articulate what students will know and be able to do by the end of your course, you are working to create an inclusive, welcoming, and clear syllabus. Aligning what students will learn–showing how it connects to their own goals–contributes as well and can help motivate students.

Please click "Going Virtually" below to reserve your seat for this session, and we will send you a Google calendar invitation with a WebEx link one hour before the session. If you register less than an hour before the session, you will receive the WebEx link when you register. Please email fdc@umbc.edu if you have any questions. If you have registered and find that you can no longer attend, please kindly release your spot so that others may attend.

√ Counts toward the ALIT Certificate
§ Counts toward the INNOVATE Certificate

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A close up of a hand holding a clear ball with the word "learning" written on it in different colors and fonts. The background is a blue sky with clouds.

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