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SBS Online Fellows Program—Spring 2012

Application Deadline: October 17, 2011

The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is pleased to announce a new version of the College Online Fellows Program which has been in place since 2006. Applications (.doc; .pdf) for the program, which is open to faculty and advanced graduate students, are due October 17, 2011. Direct questions and applications via email to Lisa Fontes, Ph.D., SBS Coordinator of Online Development.

Online Fellows Program

The Online Fellows Program is designed to encourage quality online teaching of General Education and other high-demand classes by providing Fellows with the support and skills to create and teach these courses.  Fellows will have preference for three years to teach the courses that they have developed. During those years, if the course developer is not available, the courses developed by Fellows will be added to departmental virtual libraries of online classes that will be available to online instructors. 

During late fall and the spring semester of 2011-12, participants in the Fellows Program will

  • participate in a total of four trainings/meetings with other Fellows and an experienced online instructor, Lisa Fontes, Ph.D., to discuss pedagogical and practical issues in the development of online courses
  • receive training in online course development from Continuing and Professional Education
  • develop an online course to be offered in the Summer or Fall of 2012
  • teach their online course through Continuing and Professional Education in the Summer or Fall of 2012 for the usual CPE fees

Along with the recognition of being named College Online Fellows, and training and support for the development and teaching of an online course, participants will receive $3,000 for course development in addition to the usual compensation for teaching the course.

The courses to be developed must be high demand courses that have not been developed previously in the Online Fellows Program (see attached list of previously developed courses) and participants must be willing to license the course online materials to their department for others to use during three years.

No previous experience with online course development or instruction is required. This program will provide an excellent opportunity to enhance technology skills and learn the basics of online instruction in a supportive and professional environment. 

Applications (.doc; .pdf) for the program, which is open to faculty and advanced graduate students, are due October 17, 2011. Direct questions and applications via email to Lisa Fontes, Ph.D., SBS Coordinator of Online Development.

List of Ineligible Courses (Courses Already Developed in the Online Fellows Program)

ANTHRO

100:

Human Nature

ANTHRO

102:

Archaeology and Prehistory

ANTHRO

103:

Human Origins and Variation

ANTHRO

104:

Culture, Society and People

ANTHRO

105:

Language, Culture & Comm

ANTHRO

106:

Culture Through Film

ANTHRO

150:

Ancient Civilizations

ANTHRO

205:

Inequality and Oppression

ANTHRO

208:

Human Ecology

ANTHRO

270:

North American Indians

ANTHRO

369:

North American Archeology

COMM

212:

Cultural Codes in Comm

COMM

250:

Interpersonal Communication

COMM

397L:

Consumer Culture

COMM

497x:

Info Technology & the Future

ECON

103:

Intro to Microeconomics

ECON

104:

Intro to Macroeconomics

ECON

105:

Introduction to Political Economy

ECON

311:

Money and Banking

POLISCI

101:

American Politics

POLISCI

121:

World Politics

POLISCI

203:

Amer Pol Thought

POLISCI

252:

Globalization, Governance and World Order

POLISCI

280:

Public Policy

SOCIOL

103:

Social Problems

SOCIOL

105:

Self, Society & Interpersonal Relations

SOCIOL

106:

Race, Gender, Class & Ethnicity

SOCIOL

107:

Contemp Amer Soc

SOCIOL

110:

Gen Intro Sociology

SOCIOL

340:

Race Relations

September 28, 2011

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