{"id":111,"date":"2025-08-23T20:48:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T03:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/?p=111"},"modified":"2026-07-03T13:39:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:39:31","slug":"thinking-about-teaching-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/thinking-about-teaching-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about course design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reflection and commentary: what was I thinking, why did it seem like a good idea at the time, what worked, what didn\u2019t, what would I do differently next time, <em>et mea culpa cetera.\u00a0<\/em>Behind the scenes, reading between the lines, what lies before and under and over and after a course.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>2026-27<\/p>\n<p>Beginners&#8217; French I and II (FREN 101 &amp; 102)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/metametamedieval.com\/2026\/07\/02\/summer-progress-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Midsummer progress report<\/a> (2026-07-02)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>2024-25<\/p>\n<p>A World of Marvels: cross-listed &#8220;European Literature from the 5th to the 14th Century&#8221; (MDVL 301) &amp; &#8220;French Literature from the Middle Ages to the Revolution&#8221; (RMST 321)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/metametamedieval.com\/2025\/08\/24\/course-making-notes-commentary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Course-making notes: commentary<\/a> (2025-08-24)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/metametamedieval.com\/2025\/08\/23\/on-course-creation-intelligent-artifice-theoria-poiesis-praxis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On course creation \/ intelligent artifice: theoria, poiesis, praxis<\/a> (2025-08-23<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/metametamedieval.com\/2025\/08\/22\/on-course-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On course design<\/a> (2025-08-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rmst321mdvl301in2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RMST321\/MDVL301 archived UBC Blogs site<\/a> (2025-08-21)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/metametamedieval.com\/2025\/02\/06\/teaching-course-design-pedagogy-a-medieval-studies-romance-studies-course-mid-term-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teaching, course design, pedagogy: a Medieval Studies \/ Romance Studies course \u2013 mid-term update <\/a>\u00a0(2026-02-06)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflection and commentary: what was I thinking, why did it seem like a good idea at the time, what worked, what didn\u2019t, what would I do differently next time, et mea culpa cetera.\u00a0Behind the scenes, reading between the lines, what lies before and under and over and after a course. 2026-27 Beginners&#8217; French I and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1097,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}