In April 2015, University Faculty Senate passed legislation to update the general education curriculum to include a new, 6-credit integrative studies component for all students. (See Recommendation 6 of the Senate report for more information on integrative studies.) Liberal Arts Undergraduate Studies is seeking proposals for novel integrative studies courses. We seek exciting, innovative proposals for courses that students will find engaging and that will broaden their understanding and scholarship far beyond the material in their majors.
These courses may come in two forms (as the senate legislation makes clear, at Recommendation 6, parts (b) and (c)). Some will be single courses that cross multiple Gen Ed knowledge domains (inter-domain courses). Others will be courses that individually cover single domains, but that are connected in some way so that they collectively cross domains (linked courses). We hope to have proposals of each kind.
We have already begun to invite proposals for these courses, focusing so far on inter-domain courses that seem best suited to team-teaching or other forms of robust collaboration between faculty colleagues. That process started before the website went up, and because of the timeline we’ve set up for identifying faculty partners for collaboration, has now been closed for submissions.
We are now soliciting proposals for single-author inter-domain courses without a team-teaching component, and for linked courses.
The proposals that we select through this process will be eligible for course development support of up to $2000, and for in-kind support in our Office of Digital Pedagogy and Scholarship.
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