Current and retired UMass Amherst faculty members are invited to apply to teach a one-credit Honors Discovery Seminar in the Commonwealth Honors College (CHC) for Fall 2024. Applications and proposals are being accepted through Nov. 15.

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The Honors Discovery Seminar, Honors 391AH, is intended to inspire a love of learning and to help prepare honors students with skills necessary for completion of senior theses and projects and the professional workplace. It is also designed to facilitate contact between CHC students and departmental faculty in a small, seminar-style setting of up to 15 students, and to provide an intellectually stimulating, cross-disciplinary experience for both the faculty and students involved.

Faculty and students meet once a week for 50 minutes and every section is open to honors students of any major. There is no restriction on the field or topic around which the course is centered, but all courses should be accessible to students from all majors and no advanced knowledge of the subject should be required.

The seminar allows faculty to create short, compelling courses in areas of personal interest to them and to teach courses they have always wanted to teach while helping students hone skills necessary for senior thesis or project work. Examples of courses that are available on the Fall 2023 Honors Discovery Course Descriptions website.

Discovery seminar lecturers will receive faculty funds of $2,375 and will have options how to receive compensation or donate to the CHC student research grant program.

For more details about application criteria and preferences, visit the CHC news site or contact CHC Senior Assistant Dean Dominick Usher at dusher@umass.edu.

To apply by the Wednesday, Nov. 15 deadline, the online application is available on the CHC PATHS 391H Honors Seminar Lecturer Application Form.