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							                               President’s General Education Initiative
                      Teacher Scholar Grants for Innovative Course Development

                            General Education Course Proposal Cover Sheet

Please submit this application form to the Office of General Education, Razran, 314 or submit it here
electronically by March 15, 2011.

Part I: Cover Sheet



Name:                                                  Academic rank:



Department:                                            Contact information (email):



Will you teach this course in Fall 2011?




Name:                                                  Academic rank:



Department:                                            Contact information (email):



Will you teach this course in Fall 2010?




Name:                                                  Academic rank:



Department:                                            Contact information (email):



Will you teach this course in Fall 2011?

Note: More than three faculty members may collaborate. Please provide additional names in your
course description. If a faculty member does not intend to teach the proposed course, please submit a
description of their role in the collaboration.
Please select the type of course you are proposing. If you are proposing a Perspectives Course, please
select the appropriate Area of Knowledge:

                Perspectives in Areas of Knowledge (Choose only one):

                            Reading Literature

                             Appreciating and Participating in the Arts

                            Culture and Values

                            Analyzing Social Structures

                            Natural Sciences

                                Or

                            Integrative/Culminating Experience

For descriptions of the Areas of Knowledge, please see:

http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/AcademicSenate/UCC/GenEd/General%20Education%20V5.0.pdf

If you are interested in teaching within a first year community, please check



Part II: General Education Course Proposal Guidelines

In your Course Proposal below, please include:

    1) Course title
    2) Number of students the course will accommodate
    3) ABSTRACT (300 words specifying the focus of the course and purpose of funding)
    4) Syllabus, if existing. If you are modifying an existing course, please attach a syllabus for this
       course. If you are proposing a new class, please provide a description of course materials.
    5) Narrative explanation of how course fulfills the General Education requirements (2-4 pages):
            a. Does the course link discipline-specific knowledge to larger issues and allow students to
               make connections between their undergraduate education and the changing world they
               will inhabit? If so, how?
            b. Does the course allow students to make connections to other courses or disciplinary
               knowledge? If so, how?
            c. Does the course employ pedagogical strategies, as well as discipline-specific methods of
               inquiry, that promote students’ critical abilities, such as writing, reading, critical and
               creative thinking, inquiry based learning, quantitative? If so, how?
            d. How does this course fit into the departmental plan for General Education?
    6) A plan for course assessment
    7) A budget


Part III: Course Proposal (Insert your Course Proposal here)