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Course-Level Review & Enhancement

Providing Chemical Analyses for Community Partners
With the support of the LEAF Seed Grant, we built a partnership with the Toronto Zoo’s Nutrition Science team by co-creating community-engaged learning and research opportunities within and beyond a […]
EPIC Forestry – Experiential Learning in Forest Conservation
EPIC Forestry was a pilot program to develop and deliver a new undergraduate field course (FOR301: Field Methods in Forest Conservation) that blends knowledge of conservation science with hands-on experiential […]
Canada Constructed: Architecture, Landscape, History
The purpose of the initiative was to transform teaching and learning about the Canadian built environment through a cluster of new courses at various curricular levels in the Department of […]
Interdisciplinary Curriculum Alignment and Pedagogical Collaboration Through Communities of Practice and Learning
Our project aimed to bring the three disciplines of our department – Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics closer together in terms of curriculum and pedagogy. By comparing detailed curriculum maps […]
Revamping a first-year writing course curriculum (English A02) – The Peer Support Model as a path to student academic success, resilience, and well-being
This two-year LEAF project entails a robust, embedded mental health, accessibility, community building, and academic peer support system in each of the 13/15 sections of English A02—a multi-sectional, first-year, English […]
Scaffolding Computation and Data Science Throughout the Chemistry Curriculum
Over a three-year period, we developed and integrated computing and data science (CDS) materials into five chemistry courses: a large-enrollment first-year life science course (CHM135H1); a first-year course for physical […]
Quantitative Skills using R in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Quantitative skills (statistics, mathematics, and computing) are essential parts of an academic and professional portfolio across ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB). Quantitative Reasoning is also identified as one of five […]
Failure Learning in Progress
The Failure: Learning in Progress (FLIP) project examines pedagogical struggle and failure using an equity-focused approach. With students-as-partners, the FLIP team has developed discipline agnostic teaching and learning resources and […]
The Peer Support Model as a Path to Student Academic Success, Resilience, and Well-Being
This two-year LEAF-funded initiative integrates robust mental health, accessibility, community-building, and academic peer support directly into English A02—a large, multi-section, first-year writing course that serves as a prerequisite for further […]
Writing for University and Beyond Undergraduate Editorial Experience
This project transformed a student journal volunteer experience into an internship curriculum for student volunteers. The journal, Writing for University and Beyond, is closely associated with UTM’s first-year writing course, ISP100. […]