10 + 10 Pop-Up Series: Using Case-Based Guest Lectures to Promote Real-World Application
Tue 4/7 • 10AM - 10:20AM PDT
This session offers a method for addressing a common challenge in environmental health courses: connecting complex scientific concepts with students' lived experiences and motivating them to think critically about public health solutions. It focuses on the implementation of a case-based learning guest lecture technique in three UCLA undergraduate and graduate courses to help students apply environmental health frameworks to real-world case studies involving air pollution and to foster critical thinking and discussion around environmental justice and vulnerable populations.
Presenter: Yuan Yao, Postdoctoral Scholar in Environmental Health Sciences
#makingconnections #criticalthinkingskills #casebasedlearning #environmentalhealth
Each academic quarter, the UCLA Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) hosts a weekly series of 10+10 Pop-Up sessions on Zoom. These brief, 10-minute presentations focus on specific topics related to course design, teaching, learning, and assessment, and are led by instructional designers and developers from TLC and campus partners. The “+10” refers to an optional 10-minute discussion following each presentation, where participants can ask questions and share insights. These sessions are open to all UCLA instructors—including faculty, lecturers, instructors of record, graduate student instructors, and postdoctoral scholars. Please direct any inquiries to instructorsupport@teaching.ucla.edu.