Each semester, Franklin Center affiliated faculty and graduate students teach approximately 15 - 20 courses, held in either the Center's dedicated classroom 028 or in a smaller seminar room, 016A/B. Faculty and graduate students interested in teaching at the Center should make application through the Center's Building Manager, Margaret Lawless. Priority is given to faculty and graduate students who hold office hours in the building, as well as to courses that make extensive use of Franklin Center new technologies. Up to 3 courses per semester will be selected to use the Center's M3C.
Faculty and graduate students are encouraged to develop courses that reflect the synergies of interdisciplinary collaboration found at the Center. As such, many courses are team-taught, often with faculty from disparate disciplines. Many address issues of social inequality, furthering the work of John Hope Franklin on the history of race and racial inequality.
The Center's new technology infrastructure is also available for pedagogical use. For example, many courses have taken advantage of the Center's videoconferencing technologies to bring in guest lecturers or conduct cross-cultural discussions and debates with students from around the world. Still others are true multi-site courses, with students from different institutions connected with a Duke professor via the internet.