OPA Program

**This session has been canceled, please sign up for a future session of Designing Your Postdoc HERE**

In this session, you'll have an opportunity to apply design thinking to your postdoctoral training and reflect on who you are, where you are going, and how you can get there.

You'll identify resources and plan to apply them to your training in the right place at the right time. The work we do together will support a thoughtful and balanced individual development plan.

In this session, you'll have an opportunity to apply design thinking to your postdoctoral training and reflect on who you are, where you are going, and how you can get there.

You'll identify resources and plan to apply them to your training in the right place at the right time. The work we do together will support a thoughtful and balanced individual development plan.

Design thinking can inform our decisions and provide new insight into our skills, values, interests, and plans. Join us as we apply design thinking to postdoctoral training and reflect on who you are, where you are going, and how you can get there.

This new curriculum, developed in conjunction with the Stanford d. School, is intended to help you identify resources and apply them to your training in the right place at the right time.  In true design thinking style, this workshop is a prototype and we invite you to make the best use of it, and help us make it even better!

IV. Accent Reduction

Prerequisite: Oral Communication

Summer Session: Thursdays, June 27 - August 8, 5:00pm-7:00pm (no class 7/4)

This class helps non-native speakers to recognize and practice American English sounds, stress, and intonation patterns in order to improve comprehension and intelligibility. This is accomplished through identification of problem areas, focused practice and recording of exercises for instructor feedback.

Course topics:

I: Oral Communication

Summer Session: Tuesdays, June 25 - July 23, 5:00pm-7:00pm

This course focuses on helping students improve their oral communication skills for academic and daily life. Emphasis is on increasing confidence and fluency through realistic activities both in and out of class covering pronunciation, idiom and slang usage, active listening skills, and conversation strategies.

Course topics:

I: Oral Communication

Spring Session B: Tuesdays, May 7 - June 4, 5:00pm-7:00pm

This course focuses on helping students improve their oral communication skills for academic and daily life. Emphasis is on increasing confidence and fluency through realistic activities both in and out of class covering pronunciation, idiom and slang usage, active listening skills, and conversation strategies.

Course topics:

IV. Accent Reduction

Prerequisite: Oral Communication

Spring Session: Thursdays, April 4-May 9, 5:00pm-7:00pm

This class helps non-native speakers to recognize and practice American English sounds, stress, and intonation patterns in order to improve comprehension and intelligibility. This is accomplished through identification of problem areas, focused practice and recording of exercises for instructor feedback.

Course topics:

II: Professional & Academic Writing

Prerequisite: Oral Communication

Spring Session: Wednesdays, April 3-May 8, 5:00pm-7:00pm

This  course on academic writing for publication focuses on learning to write coherently, clearly, and concisely. It will also include some practice in writing effective emails, letters, and short proposals. The course includes two 30-minute individual tutorials with the instructor.

I: Oral Communication

Spring Session A: Tuesdays, April 2 - April 30, 5:00pm-7:00pm

This course focuses on helping students improve their oral communication skills for academic and daily life. Emphasis is on increasing confidence and fluency through realistic activities both in and out of class covering pronunciation, idiom and slang usage, active listening skills, and conversation strategies.

Course topics:

I: Oral Communication

Winter Session B: Thursdays, February 14 - March 14, 5:00pm-7:00pm

This course focuses on helping students improve their oral communication skills for academic and daily life. Emphasis is on increasing confidence and fluency through realistic activities both in and out of class covering pronunciation, idiom and slang usage, active listening skills, and conversation strategies. 

Course topics: