Apply to Teach a Signature Course:
The Core Curriculum Committee of the Faculty Senate invites applications from full-time tenured and tenure track undergraduate faculty interested in teaching the first Signature Course, "The Journey of Transformation" or the second Signature Course, "Christianity and Culture in Dialogue." The faculty selected to teach these courses will meet six times and participate in a preparatory seminar. Successful applicants will teach these courses in the 2007 - 2008 school year.
Getting
Involved in the Core Proficiencies:
There are currently two options available for participating in core
proficiency infusion: serving as a "liaison" for a department (not
necessarily your own) to help infuse a large enrollment course, or
infusion of one or more of your own courses.
Those who choose to work on large-course redesign should have already
gone through the infusion process for a course of their own. The goal is
to help a department identify a course for infusion and decide what
proficiency to infuse, and then to work with department members to
infuse/create a generic course template, update assignments, and
otherwise create a focus on the infused proficiency within the course.
The goal is to have all sections of the course infused, regardless of
who teaches it.
The second option is to infuse a course of your own. The first step in
this process for 2007-08 (as it was for 2006-07) will be attendance at
the TLTC Summer Institute, scheduled to take place in June 2007. There
you will be introduced to the basic premises of infusion, have an
opportunity to see the work of prior participants, and begin the
hands-on process of course infusion. The actual course infusion will
take place over the course of the subsequent academic year under the
direction of team leaders and mentors who have successfully infused
their own courses.
This year we will also be working on an approval process for those who
already have an infused course they would like to make available when
the core is launched in fall 2008. Details on this process will be
forthcoming.