Santa Clara University

Core Honoraria for Curriculum Transformation and Development and Honoraria for Pathways Facilitators

Revised April 2009

Updated Honoraria recipients

Honoraria announcement and application requirements

Deadline for application for Curriculum Transformation & Development:

• October 30, 2009
• March 30, 2010
  

Summer 2009 Workshops for Core Curriculum Development

June 16-17  Science, Technology, & Society

Facilitators: Geof Bowker, Executive Director, Center for Science, Technology, and Society; Shannon Vallor, Philosophy Department; Keith Douglass Warner OFM, Assistant Director for Education, CSTS, Religious Studies Department.

This workshop will help faculty develop skills in teaching STS within the context of their own disciplinary backgrounds. The field of STS emphasizes the social impact of science and/or technology, and the ways that science and technology are themselves impacted by the needs and demands of society.  The workshop will not only introduce the academic field of STS, but also provide strategies and resources that faculty can use to teach the new STS requirement.

June 18 - 19 The Penstemon Project: Sustainability Across the Curriculum

Facilitators: John Farnsworth and Patrick Archie, Environmental Studies

The Penstemon Project brings together an interdisciplinary community of scholars committed to infusing concerns about environmental sustainability into all elements of the university curriculum. Using a training model developed by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, this workshop familiarizes participants with sustainability-across-the-curriculum methodologies while providing resources to help them better appreciate the local ecology. This workshop will aid faculty in developing courses for the "Sustainability Pathway” in the new Core Curriculum. Faculty developing courses for other Pathways, such as “Food, Hunger, and Poverty,” “Global Health,” etc. may also find this workshop useful.

June 23-24 Diversity

Facilitators: Linda Garber, Director, Women’s and Gender Studies Program; James Lai, Director, Ethnic Studies Program

This workshop is designed to facilitate development of new courses and transformation of existing courses to satisfy the Diversity requirement in the new Core Curriculum. Guest facilitator Donna Champeau, from Oregon State University's program in "Difference, Power, and Discrimination," will present the theoretical framework for the diversity intersection approach.  Dr. Champeau will focus on exploring intersectionality within different academic disciplines, making classrooms more inclusive, and dealing with resistance. The workshop will also involve hands-on training addressing the learning objectives for the Diversity area of the Santa Clara Core.

June 25-26  Advanced Writing

Facilitators: Stephen Carroll, Director, Core Writing Program; Phyllis Brown, Director of the University Core Curriculum

This workshop is intended to help instructors develop an Advanced Writing component for a course in their discipline. The workshop will include sessions on assignment design, responding to student writing, and integrating writing instruction with disciplinary content. Participants will discuss broad issues related to writing instruction (such as authority, surface correctness, and writing processes) as well as more specific concerns (such as peer editing and teaching academic writing to multilingual students [non-native English speakers]).

Application Process

By April 15, 2009 please send the following information by email to ugradstudies@scu.edu, copying the workshop facilitators and your department chair:

• Which workshop(s) would you like to attend? (Faculty may attend more than one workshop)
• What course are you interested in developing or transforming during this workshop?
• How will this course contribute to the new Core Curriculum?

• Participants will receive honoraria of $500 per day for participation in workshops.
• If a syllabus has not been approved in advance, workshop participants will be expected to submit a syllabus for Core Curriculum approval to the relevant Faculty Core Committee by the fall 2009 deadline.
• The workshops will provide support in developing courses with explicit assessment plans and clear connections between student learning objectives and activities/ assignments.
• All faculty may apply to participate in workshops.  Priority will be given to tenured faculty, tenure track faculty, and senior lecturers.

For additional information about specific workshops you may contact one of the members of the Core Curriculum Implementation Team or one of the workshop facilitators.