Course Proposal

CALL FOR COURSE PROPOSALS

The Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon invites course proposals from tenure-related faculty members interested in teaching at Clark Honors College. The Clark Honors College provides a unique environment for teaching. Lower-division courses are discussion-based, reading and writing intensive, and emphasize work with primary sources. Upper-division colloquia are based in the disciplines of the faculty but are interdisciplinary in their concerns and designed to address students from all majors. The Clark Honors College supports creative teaching and offers an ideal situation to test new and challenging course proposals. It also provides excellent exposure for faculty and their departments. We strongly encourage applications from junior and senior faculty alike, and strive to feature the diversity of the University of Oregon in our course offerings.

• 400-level Clark Honors College Colloquia satisfy Clark Honors College upper division requirements, and may be in the Humanities, Social Sciences, or Natural Sciences. Each colloquium is to be discipline-based, but interdisciplinary in scope. These colloquia are demanding but accessible to students in all disciplines. Each colloquium is designed to encourage critical and creative thinking, writing, reading, and discussion, and to create dialogue among disciplines. Faculty are encouraged to suggest new courses and courses that stretch the boundaries of their own home disciplines even as they stress disciplinary rigor.
• 200-level literature and history classes are part of the Clark Honors College core sequences. All incoming Clark Honors College students take five 200-level courses, two in literature, two in history, and a research seminar in one of the two disciplines. Fall and winter quarters are organized chronologically; fall courses are devoted to the pre-modern world, and winter to the modern. Pedagogically, these two courses prepare students for their spring research seminar. Research seminars are offered on many subjects and are designed to give students close guidance while doing substantial independent work.
• 200-level science classes are primarily for non-science students and aim to promote critical and creative approaches to scientific thinking. These classes introduce foundations of one or more scientific disciplines, scientific perspectives on major problems facing society, or scientific methods used within or among disciplines. Courses with a laboratory or hands-on component are preferred, depending on topic. If there is a lab associated with the course, it should emphasize understanding of scientific process rather than of techniques and methods. Faculty from all scientific disciplines are encouraged to apply.

For examples of past courses see http://honors.uoregon.edu/curriculum/courses

Proposed courses and their syllabi should be unique to Clark Honors College. All classes are limited to fewer than 25 Clark Honors College students. The professor's department will receive $6,000 plus OPE to hire a replacement instructor for the course the faculty member would otherwise teach, or the professor will receive $6,000 professional development funds (income and expense index only).

We ask anyone who is interested to submit a Clark Honors College Affiliated Faculty Course Proposal (PDF, 126k).Please attach a simple course description and a brief narrative statement that explains how the course would enhance the Clark Honors College curriculum.

In addition, faculty applying to teach Clark Honors College colloquia are also encouraged to submit a short description of a public event related to their course to be hosted and funded by the CHC. We especially encourage faculty members themselves to present a formal talk, a fireside chat, or some similar activity in order to share the excitement of their course with the entire CHC community. The CHC will provide funding for four such events as well as an additional stipend of $500 for the faculty member proposing it.

Anyone who would like further information should contact David Frank, Dean of Clark Honors College, dfrank@uoregon.edu, 346-4198.

PROPOSAL DEADLINES:

• College of Arts and Sciences faculty must submit proposals to the CAS Dean’s Office with a two-page CV by 5:00 pm on Thursday, January 7, 2010.
• Other faculty should submit to Clark Honors College by 5:00 pm on Thursday, January 14, 2009.

Selections are made on the basis of current curricular needs. For 2010–2011, Clark Honors College is seeking 20 colloquia. At the request of faculty applicants, proposals that are not selected in this cycle may be marked for reconsideration the following year.

David A. Frank
Dean, Robert D. Clark Honors College

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