The benefits to teaching in Honors<\/b><\/p>\n
Teaching in the Honors Program gives you the opportunity to experiment in your teaching and to enjoy the following Honors teaching conditions:<\/span><\/p>\n The benefits to your department of offering an Honors course<\/b><\/p>\n All student credit hours (SCH) for honors courses are credited to your home department. (We are currently exploring how to offer departments that offer Honors courses an additional premium in terms of SCH. This premium would be taken into account by Colleges and the Provost\u2019s Office in terms of future resource allocations for the department.) Additionally, teaching in the University Honors Program offers your department: <\/span><\/p>\n Guidelines for honors course proposals<\/b><\/p>\n If you would like to teach an Honors course in and if you have never taught before in the Honors Program, we recommend that you first contact <\/span>Karl Aspelund<\/b><\/span> (aspelund@uri.edu<\/a><\/span>), Associate Director, to discuss your course idea & develop the description. If you are already familiar with the Honors Program and have been actively developing your high-impact teaching practices, you may submit a course proposal directly to<\/span> Anna Blake<\/b>, Honors Program Coordinator (<\/span>annablake@uri.edu<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n All Honors courses (HPR or H-sections) must be resubmitted to the curriculum committee every 3 years for approval. If a course code is approved and the instructor changes, a new syllabus will need to be approved by the Honors curriculum committee. <\/p>\n Instructions for course proposal<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n For additional information please e-mail Anna Blake (<\/span>annablake@uri.edu<\/span><\/a>) or visit our website at <\/span>uri.edu\/honors<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The benefits to teaching in Honors Teaching in the Honors Program gives you the opportunity to experiment in your teaching and to enjoy the following Honors teaching conditions: small seminar-style classes between 15 and 20 students highly motivated students the possibility to experiment with new course subjects, pedagogies and practices participation in an interdisciplinary community […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4688,"featured_media":0,"parent":1416,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1422","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4688"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6075,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1422\/revisions\/6075"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n<\/span>an exciting and compelling course title and course description; the course level 100\/200\/300\/400 most appropriate for the course, the course objectives, the grading method\/criteria, an AI statement, and a sample course materials list. Here is a link<\/a> to <\/span>general education rubrics, please indicate which requirement the course will meet and which skill areas will be covered in the course;<\/span><\/li>\n