GRAD PD 496AIntroduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate Teaching
Graduate Student Professional Development · 2 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Seminar, 90 minutes. Designed for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. Exploration and practice of fundamental principles of learning, backward design, assessment, active learning, and inclusive teaching. Lesson plan design with feedback. Meets associate level of CIRTL certification requirement. May be repeated once for credit.
S/U grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
GRAD PD 496A
- GRAD PD 496BTeaching as Research
- GRAD PD 496CImplementing and Communicating Teaching as Research Project
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.