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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;text-indent:.25in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Call for Proposals: Signature Courses 2021-2022<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:red">DEADLINE TO SUBMIT: NOVEMBER 20, 2020</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">As part of the First-Year TRAC initiative, the College of Innovation & Design seeks faculty (employed for at least one academic year)
to teach engaging, dynamic courses on topics of the instructor’s choice for first-year students. These “Signature Courses” should highlight the faculty member’s passion for the topic and communicate knowledge on that topic for a general first-year student.
Ideal Signature Courses are interdisciplinary, not already a part of an existing curriculum, and include interactive student pedagogy, including, for example, group projects, oral presentations, group discussion, proposals/ sales pitches, and other active,
experiential learning strategies.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Signature Courses must meet the following Core Curriculum Student Learning Outcomes:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">1.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">In written, oral, and/or visual communication, students will communicate in a manner appropriate to audience and occasion, with an evident message and organizational structure.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Students will be able to analyze, evaluate, or solve problems when given a set of circumstances, data, texts, or art.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">3.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Students will demonstrate an understanding of societal and/or civic issues.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Signature Courses are capped at 100 students, and undergraduate supplemental instructors will be available to provide support as deemed
appropriate by the instructor. Students enrolled in Signature Courses will participate in “The Lionizing,” a culminating semester-end event where they will present a project from the course in the genre of the instructor’s choice. As this course is part of
the core curriculum, it will be assessed for institutional effectiveness purposes at the end of the semester.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">In a letter of application, please address the following:
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Name and describe the topic of the Signature Course you propose to teach. Is this proposed topic already part of another course you teach?</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Why are you interested in teaching a Signature Course for first-time freshmen?</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Why would this course be of value & interest to first-time freshmen?</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Describe assignments or activities you would utilize in this course & how would they tie-in to the student learning outcomes listed above?</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Describe one aspect of the course that will clearly be interdisciplinary.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">What are your tentative plans to take part in the Lionizing event at the end of the semester?</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Do you prefer to teach a Signature Course in the Fall or Spring semester, and what informs this preference?</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Signature Courses are taught Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10AM-10:50AM. If you seek to teach this course at an alternate time, day or format, please justify why this would be of benefit for our freshmen
students.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Include a one-paragraph description of your course in language that would be appealing to first-year students. Please note, if selected to teach this course, this description will be used in marketing efforts.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Include short letter from your department head & dean attesting to the quality of your teaching, especially regarding your ability to engage students. Your department head and dean should acknowledge that a
discussion of a course release, which accompanies the signature course, took place. While a course release is ideal, teaching a signature course as a faculty overload must be negotiated and approved by the dean of the academic college to which the faculty
member belongs. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">To learn about our current Signature Course offerings, refer to previous Signature Course offerings, a sample proposal and syllabus, by
visiting: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.tamuc.edu/TRAC/signaturecourses.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">http://www.tamuc.edu/TRAC/signaturecourses.aspx</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">.
Interested faculty are welcome to sit-in on a Signature Course in the month of October. Contact Dr. Quynh Dang for additional information.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Please submit these documents via e-mail to
<a href="mailto:Quynh.dang@tamuc.edu">Quynh.dang@tamuc.edu</a> prior to <u>NOVEMBER 20, 2020
</u>for consideration for the Fall or Spring 2021-2022 academic year.</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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