Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization
in College and University Teaching
Call for Proposals
Course Development Mini-Grants
The Steering Committee for the Graduate Interdisciplinary
Specialization in College and University Teaching invites proposals from
faculty members and academic units for eight $1000 mini-grants to support
the creation of new or substantially changed courses to fill the need for
rigorous discipline-based teaching classes or new electives. These could
be paid as either summer supplemental salary or as professional development
grants where we would spend the money for you for travel, technology, materials,
assistance, etc. Faculty may submit a completed Course Development Mini-Grant
Application Form [Word] [PDF]
to the steering committee. Independent study courses are not eligible for
this grant.
Background
The School of Educational Policy & Leadership, University Center for the Advancement of Teaching,
and the Graduate School at The Ohio State University have collaborated on
a Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in College and University Teaching.
This program allows graduate students to engage in a rigorous, structured
exploration of theories and practice of university-level teaching, both
in general and in their own discipline, and to develop skills and experience
that enable them as reflective, scholarly teachers as they prepare to enter
the professoriate.
The curriculum for completion of the interdisciplinary specialization requires
at least 18 but not more than 23 hours of graduate-level coursework, including
at least one discipline-based teaching course in the student's home
department.
These courses will vary according to the needs and interests of the offering
departments, but must be rigorous, academic examinations of teaching in
the field. Classes designed only as practica for GTAs are not sufficient.
They must include a broader look at teaching, course and curriculum design,
and/or the “pedagogical content knowledge” needed by university
faculty in that discipline or interdisciplinary area.
Academic units that already offer an appropriate, credit-bearing, discipline-based
teaching class and credit-bearing mentored teaching experience need to simply
enable their students to participate. The steering committee will need to
review the syllabus and Course Approval Form [Word]
[PDF] to approve these courses and
add them to the approval list. Those that do not, may, with the approval
of the steering committee, offer these as independent studies. Submit syllabi
and Course Approval Form [Word] [PDF]
to Alan Kalish.
Individual departments or multi-unit consortia may also propose new discipline-based
teaching courses and mentored teaching experiences for inclusion in the
specialization. Independent study courses are not eligible for this grant.
If academic units choose to make their teaching courses available to students
not matriculated in their own programs, these may, with the approval of
the steering committee, serve as substitutes for courses not available in
the home unit or as electives.
Download the Course Development Mini-Grant Application Form [Word] [PDF] and send it to Alan Kalish.