My responsibilities for both courses included leading weekly discussion sessions, holding office hours, conducting reviews prior to exams, grading quizzes, homework assignments, and exams. I had full independence in covering weekly coursework for both courses, including reviews of the weekly lecture material, in-class activities, and question-answer sessions.

Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in non-STEM fields often lack the training necessary to master hard programming skills to develop effective professional websites. Due to the variability of mentorship quality, inequitable access to resources and professionalizing experiences, and a lack of clarity regarding the inherent differences between job application processes within and beyond academia, graduate students of historically underrepresented groups (e.g. BIPOC, first-generation, international, LGBTQIA+) in particular may benefit from a clear introduction to the coding and marketing skills foundational to developing professional websites.

To fill this gap, with funding from the Texas Career Engagement office, I've developed and taught a five-week workshop on professional website building with HTML, CSS, and GitHub for non-STEM and underrepresented researchers to leverage the most out of their already-acquired professional development skills. The purpose of this workshop was to empower graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in non-STEM fields by teaching them the nuances of the website construction tool GitHub so that they may more effectively advertise skills common in non-STEM fields, such as “creativity, complex information processing, empathy, critical thinking, and communication,” (Kyriazi) online.

The syllabues designed for this course can be found here .

Check out Yul Min Park's and Theodore Charm's professional websites (developed through this workshop)!