Honors Course Proposals
Visiting Scholar Grants
Colloquium Proprosals

2008-2009 HONORS COURSE PROPOSALS

I invite all full-time and continuing URI faculty to submit proposals for Honors courses to be taught in either Fall 2009 or Spring 2010. Courses may be proposed for one semester, or both, and may be for 100-level seminars that count for general education or 300-level tutorials and 400-level senior seminars for more advanced students. Courses may be honors sections of existing courses or original course designs.

Faculty Opportunities: During the current academic year, 2008-09, 49 members of the faculty are teaching in the Honors Program, and you can apply to join them in enjoying extraordinary opportunities:

• Small seminar or tutorial classes (between 10 and 20 students)
• Highly motivated students (minimum 3.2 grade point average required)
• Opportunity for new and flexible course designs, often interdisciplinary
• Participation in a community of inter-departmental, inter-college faculty interested in teaching excellence and active learning

Department Opportunities: All enrollment numbers for HPR courses are credited to the home department. Teaching in the University Honors Program offers your department:

• Opportunity to showcase and recruit for your major among excellent students
• Occasion to try a course design that later may become a permanent department offering
• Honor and prestige of department faculty selected and publicized as exemplary University honors teachers

HPR Course Proposal Guidelines

If you would like to teach an Honors course in 2009-10 please forward the following to Richard McIntyre, Honors Director, 206 Roger Williams Hall, by November 15, 2008:

• a sample syllabus of one to two pages including: course description including course title, course level (100, 300, or 400), course objectives, grading criteria, and a sample reading list. For general education courses, please indicate which requirement the class will meet.
• a twenty word course description that can be included in our course schedule and flyer
• a brief statement indicating what differentiates your honors course from a regular course.*
• a condensed curriculum vitae and recent representative SET scores
• a signature of endorsement from your Chair and Dean, together with any comments they wish to convey.

VISITING SCHOLAR GRANTS

1. Resume or full vita if possible of the proposed visiting scholar.
2. Description of the program and its potential audience. (NOTE: Please remember that the committee's primary charge is to serve the URI community; at the same time, we also wish to attract audience members from across the state as well).
3. A promotion and publicity plan to reach the desired audience.
4. Workable proposed date of presentation that takes into account other events on campus and maximizes the ability of your proposed audience to attend theevent. (NOTE: Friday afternoon events seldom attract much of an audience on this campus).
5. Budget statement with amount requested, itemized breakdown of costs, and sources of other funds. Please note that such funds can be used only for travel or honorarium and will be paid directly to the visiting scholar in one single check.

COLLOQUIUM PROPROSALS

• A concept paper of one to two pages framing the intellectual issue(s);
• A list or brief account of potential speakers and special events;
• A roughly estimated budget;
• A brief course description for the 200-level Honors class with such things as a sample syllabus and reading list;
• Curriculum vitae for the Colloquium coordinator(s).