Teach an Honors Course or Seminar

The Honors Program provides unique opportunities for faculty with a record of strong teaching to develop new courses. There are two types of Honors courses for which we accept applications:

• New discipline-based introductory seminars in the arts and sciences (for first-year students).
• New team-taught interdisciplinary seminars (for second-year students).

Benefits include:

• The satisfaction of teaching bright, engaged, motivated and well-prepared students.
• A summer stipend to support course development during the summer before teaching ($1,200).
• A chance to develop a new course in a topic area of your selection, and if it is an interdisciplinary course, the unique opportunity to teach with a colleague from another discipline.

These courses would be normally taught in the academic year after the proposal is accepted, but we can be flexible regarding scheduling. Proposals are generally due in mid-September and are reviewed by the Honors Advisory Committee. The proposal form provides detailed information about the goals and requirements of these courses, and these are some notes for faculty considering teaching in Honors developed by the former directors of the program, Dr. Mary Jo Festle and Dr. Janet Myers. Please get in touch with Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler or Michael Carignan if you are interested.