Empowering Kurdish Scholars

This course explores effective strategies and approaches for teaching English as a second or foreign language. Students will engage in practical, hands-on activities to design and implement lesson plans, develop materials, and address diverse learner needs. Through a collaborative, project-based framework, participants will experience the process of creating and completing a multi-module assignment, applying the methods they learn to a real-world teaching context. By the end of the course, students will have the tools and confidence to foster language development in a variety of classroom settings.

Course: Methods of Teaching English

Instructor: Dr. Carolina Avsar

#of Students: 11

Period: 10/11/2024 - 01/17/2025

Course: Immunology

Instructor: Dr. Osman Can

#of Students: 3 (graduate)

Period: Fall 2024

This course explores the basics of the Immune system in humans. It covers the structure and function of the immune system, its components, and immune disorders. Students engage with content through didactic, discussion, case studies, interactive simulations, projects, assignments, quizzes, and exams. By the end of the course, students gain a solid understanding of how the immune system works and defends the body against pathogens as well as what happens when components of the system do not work properly.

Course: Pedagogy B1 ESL

Instructor: Joshua Tucker

Number of participants: 50

Duration: 23/01/2025 - 27/02/2025

This course empowers university educators with a diversity of engaging online tactics for fostering even more fun and supporting different learning styles, while they continue to teach Cambridge University Press's B1 level textbook: Interchange 3.