Co-Creation of Courses
Students who work as consultants through Students as Learners and Teachers (SaLT) have opportunities to co-create courses with faculty.
Below is an example of course co-creation in action.
This Spring 2026, Professor David Sorge and student consultant Austen Morris, Bryn Mawr College class of 2026, are teaching "Social Problems, Community Conversations," a course that they co-created described above. This particular instance of course co-creation was supported by two different institutions and led to related professional development opportunities:
- At “Belonging and Beyond,” a two-part workshop at Vassar College’s Institute for the Liberal Arts, the student-faculty pair, Austen Morris and David Sorge, conceptualized the plan for the course.
- Through a year-long, one-on-one pedagogical partnership through Students as Learners and Teachers (SaLT), Austen was paid as a co-planner, working closely with David.
- In an independent study completed with Alison Cook-Sather, Austen explored both course content and pedagogical approaches to integrate into the course she and David were co-planning.
- Austen and David worked in collaboration with staff of the Praxis Program at Bryn Mawr College, who helped coordinate a partnership with a community organization.
- Austen took advantage of an opportunity to present at the North Eastern Philosophy of Education Society conference, as Austen noted on LinkedIn.
- Inspired by all of this work, Austen wrote a reflective essay, “Cultivating Critical Hope: Reflections on Pedagogical Partnerships in Higher Education,” which is under review at International Journal for Students as Partners.