How to Become an Effective Course Director

What A Course Director?.- Whose Idea Was This?.- Anatomy of a Course Director.- Living With Our Differences.- Where Do I Start?.- Managing Courses with Laboratories.- Responding to Student Problems and Issues.- Measuring Course Effectiveness.- Documentation.- Impediments.- Pitfalls.- Professionalism.- Administrative Support.- Special Considerations.

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