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: January 14, 2010
Thanks to faculty response, this academic year we’ve offered almost thirty one-hour topics courses for freshmen. We want to offer more topics courses during the Fall 2010 semester. 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 semester include the following: Star Wars and the Roman Empire; Food, Glorious Food; Ghost Stories and Weird Tales; and Stranded. You can find course descriptions at http://www.utc.edu/Academic/FirstYearStudies/Spring2010Seminars.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 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 Fall 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 February 1, 2010. There is a limit on the number of courses we’re able to offer, so please submit your proposal soon.
We look forward to hearing from you!
