MEMORANDUM
TO: Deans, Directors, Department Heads, and Faculty
FROM: Fran Bender, Assistant Provost for Student Retention and Success
SUBJECT: Call for USTU 199 Course Proposals
DATE: September 10, 2009
Thanks to faculty response, this fall we’re offering 17 one-hour topics courses for freshmen. These one-hour credit courses, offered on a satisfactory/no credit basis, 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 to find 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. Among the topics offered this fall include the following: The History of Hip Hop, China: Friend or Foe, Inside the Criminal Mind, How Smart Are Animals, Comic Book Culture, Body Images: Beauty and Health, and Show Me the Money.
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 199 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” 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 2010 semester. If you are interested, please go the Frequently Asked Questions page to find additional information or email Fran Bender at fran-bender@utc.edu. The deadline for these proposals is September 21, 2009. There is a limit on the number of courses we’re able to offer, so please reply soon.
We look forward to hearing from you!
