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SBS Online Fellows Program—Spring 2013

Application Deadline: Friday, November 16, 2012

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.

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 late fall and the spring semester of 2012-13, 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 2013
  • teach their online course through Continuing and Professional Education in the Summer or Fall of 2013 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 an additional $3,000 in compensation for teaching the course for the first time.

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).

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 for the program, which is open to faculty and advanced graduate students, are due Friday, November 16, 2012. Direct questions 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

CLACLS

 397B

Latin American History Through Film

COMM

 118

Interpersonal Comm and Culture

COMM

 121

Intro to Media and Culture

COMM

 197WW

Sports Cultures and Advertising

COMM

 212

Cultural Codes in Comm

COMM

 250

Interpersonal Communication

COMM

 397L

Consumer Culture

COMM

 497x

Info Technology & the Future

COMM

 691K

Media Literacy Theory

COMM

 691M

Media Literacy Practices

ECON

 103

Intro to Microeconomics

ECON

 104

Intro to Macroeconomics

ECON

 105

Introduction to Political Economy

ECON

 311

Money and Banking

JOURNAL

 393S

Sports Journalism

LARP

 625

GIS Systems

 POLISCI

 101

American Politics

POLISCI

 121

World Politics

POLISCI

 181

Controversy & Public Policy

POLISCI

 203

Amer Pol Thought

POLISCI

 250

Citizenship in the Nuclear Age

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



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