SEMINAR PROPOSAL: CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE STUDIES
Seminars offered through CIS should extend beyond the boundaries of any one academic discipline. Besides integrating diverse disciplinary approaches, these seminars emphasize student participation and may experiment with forms of presentation and modes of learning. Typically CIS seminars are offered twice, in consecutive years, and are limited to 16-19 students, sophomore and above. CIS seminars should not be considered a means for part-time faculty to increase the size of their teaching appointments.
Please prepare your proposal by inserting the requested information into this Word document and return the completed form to the CIS via campus mail (hard copy) or as an attachment via email to . If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Steve McKelvey, CIS Director or Susan Carlson, Program Coordinator.
1. Your name and contact information (Phone and email):
2. Departmental/Programmatic Affiliations and Faculty Appointment Status: (Full/part time, term, tenure track, tenured):
3. Tentative Seminar Title:
4. Description of seminar topic and intellectual objectives:
5. Specific ways in which the proposed seminar integrates diverse disciplinary approaches and/or experiments with forms of presentation and modes of learning:
6. Other reasons for the seminar to be offered through the CIS:
7. Potential General Education attributes:
8. Preferred academic term(s) for offering the course (fall, interim, spring):
9. Which students will be particularly interested in taking your seminar? How will you identify and recruit them?
10. Other information about you, the proposed seminar or the likely students that you would like us to consider in evaluating this proposal:
11. Please include a short note from your department and/or program heads indicating that they are aware of your proposal and approve of it. Commentary on the substance of your proposal is permissible, but not required.