MEMORANDUM
TO:: Deans, Directors, Department Heads, and Faculty
FROM: Fran Bender, Assistant Provost for Student Retention and Success
SUBJECT: Call for USTU 1999 Course Proposals
DATE: February 6, 2012
Thanks to faculty response, we have been offering one-hour topics courses for freshmen for the last two years. We want to offer more topics courses during the Spring Fall 2012 semester.
Remember that we will be offering these one-hour credit courses on a graded basis during the Fall semester. The courses are designed to engage freshmen and their professors in topics of mutual interest. The topic may be in your discipline or it may be in a topic outside your ordinary teaching and/or research area.
We’re looking for interesting, engaging courses for freshmen. As you’re thinking about what you may want to teach, I encourage you to talk to other faculty who are currently teaching these courses, descriptions of which are available at the following link: www.utc.edu/Academic/FirstYearStudies/Fall2011Seminars.php.
We ask that your proposed course be on a freshman level, require no more than two hours a week outside of class, and hold excitement for you to teach. These courses will again be offered as USTU 1999 courses. Tenured and tenure-track faculty are eligible to teach these courses, and faculty may teach one topics course per semester. Faculty members whose courses are accepted and “make” with at least 14 students will receive a stipend for a research/teaching fund in the form of Mocs Bucks.
We hope you will decide to participate during the Spring Fall2012 semester. Should you have questions, please contact Fran Bender (fran-bender@utc.edu). If you are interested in participating, please submit a proposal at the following website: www.utc.edu/Academic/FirstYearStudies/proposals.php. The deadline for these proposals is February 13, 2012 at noon. There is a limit on the number of courses we’re able to offer, so please submit your proposal as soon as possible.
We look forward to hearing from you!
