Teaching Honors Courses

Faculty interested in teaching an Honors seminar?

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

• Honors discipline-based introductory seminars in the arts and sciences (for first-year students; taught spring only)
• Honors team-taught interdisciplinary seminars (for second-year students; taught fall and spring semesters)
• Honors multidisciplinary seminars (for second-year students; taught fall and spring semesters)

Benefits include:

• • The satisfaction of teaching bright, engaged, motivated and well-prepared students
  • 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
  • A summer stipend to support course development during the summer before teaching ($2,000)
  • A stipend when the course is taught ($1,000 for single instructor courses, $1,500 for a team taught course)
  • Course enrichment funds to engage your class during the semester ($500)

• Propose an Honors Seminar:

• • Teaching in Honors Information – provides information about each of the three types of Honors classes and how they fit into the Honors curriculum
  • Seminar Proposal Forms – detailed instructions for proposing a new course, with information about the goals and requirements of these courses
    • Proposal for First Year Seminar
    • Proposal for Second Year Single Instructor Seminar
    • Proposal for Second Year Team Taught Seminar
  • Teaching and Learning in Honors – provides some information on what we know about teaching high achieving and gifted students from a survey of the current scholarship on these topics and compiling feedback from Elon Honors students in recent years. The scholarship of teaching and learning is a growing field, and as new information about effective teaching and learning strategies for high achieving and gifted students becomes available, we will share that information with you.