Who Should Apply: Full-time faculty (tenured, tenure track, clinical, and in residence). Proposals are invited from teams of two or more faculty with distinct disciplinary and/or methodological expertise.
Deadline: March 25, 2025 at 5:00 p.m.
Funding: Grants will be awarded up to $8,000.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is happy to announce support for the development and implementation of a limited number of innovative integrative team-taught courses, either within or across disciplines. Successful proposals will incorporate distinct disciplinary and/or methodological perspectives and aim to provide students with a variety of approaches to the chosen topic. Support is available both for new courses and for revising existing courses, including courses that might support interdisciplinary programs.
Preference will be given to courses that address urgent and important questions that require diverse perspectives and integrative knowledge and that will impact a significant number of students. Preference will also be given to courses that fall within the core offerings of the units.
Eligibility
This opportunity is open to full-time faculty (tenured, tenure track, clinical, and in residence).
Proposals are invited from teams of two or more faculty with distinct disciplinary and/or methodological expertise.
Funding Level
Support includes summer stipends for course development and planning (up to $4,000 per faculty member, with a cap for $8,000 per course) and extra resources and/or workload credit for the pilot offerings of the course.
The funds must be spent by May 30, 2026. Any unspent funds will be returned to CLAS; provisions will be made to enable PIs to report longer-term outcomes.
Application Process
Applications will be due on Tuesday, March 25.
A CLAS Teaching Conversation will be held on Monday, Feb. 10 from 4-5 p.m. to answer questions and to help faculty prepare their applications.
All applications must be submitted through the CLAS Funding Portal and proposals should include:
- A description of the proposed new or revised course, demonstrating how students will benefit from multi-disciplinary perspectives.
- A plan for developing and delivering the course, including an account of how the workload of the class will be managed. This document should articulate the relationship between the course goals and assessment; the mechanisms for student engagement and discussion (including justification for instructional support, if any); and the teaching philosophy and methodology underpinning the course.
- A sustainability plan, stating how often the course will be offered and how it fits into existing offerings; how the availability of faculty will be managed; and how the course will be managed following the pilot period. (Please note that CLAS cannot support giving 100% teaching credit to two faculty members for one smaller course; however, we are open to negotiating alternative ways of managing faculty workload for the selected courses).
- A statement of support in principle from the relevant department or unit leaders.