FROM SENIOR FACULTY FOR THE SECOND FACULTY DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR, FOR 2008.

PROPOSAL DEADLINE EXTENDED: January 31, 2007

The Faculty Development Seminar in the Humanities enable an individual senior faculty member or a team of two senior faculty members to teach fellow faculty for ten weeks (a weekly two-hour seminar) on a topic of interest across the Humanities. The presiding faculty member(s) will receive course credit and her/his Department will receive funds for a replacement lecturer. The ten faculty members taking the course will receive research funds to recognize their selection and to cover the costs of materials. The presiding senior faculty member(s) as well as the participating faculty members will be chosen by a selection committee.

This is a call for proposals from Senior Faculty for the second year of Seminars in the 2007-2008 academic year. Two of these proposals will be chosen, one for each semester. One of these seminars will be led by an individual faculty member; the other seminar may be team taught by two faculty members from different departments in the Humanities (both faculty members will receive teaching credit and their Departments will receive funds for replacement lecturers).

Topics should be broadly conceived and of potential interest to a large number of Humanities disciplines.

Please send 1) one page proposal for the seminar; 2), a one page preliminary syllabus for the ten weeks (the proposed format or weekly topic, sample readings); and 3) a curriculum vitae to: Loretta Freiling, Faculty Development Seminars, Institute for Research in the Humanities, 1401 Observatory Drive; or by e-mail to: Loretta Freiling.

The deadline for proposal submission is January 31, 2007.

If you have questions please contact David Sorkin (Institute for Research in the Humanities) orSusanne Wofford (Center for the Humanities).

This initiative is funded by the Office of the Dean, College of Letters and Science; the Center for the Humanities; and the Institute for Research in the Humanities.