UK Honors Invites Faculty to Submit Course Proposals

LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 22, 2016) — The University of Kentucky Honors Program is inviting UK faculty to submit course proposals for the Spring 2017 semester. The program is actively looking to recruit new faculty and new course offerings to better expand the depth and breadth of the Honors curriculum.

Honors offers faculty the opportunity to teach intensive, rigorous courses with smaller groups of students; existing courses can also offer Honors sections within their own departments. Recent Honors courses have included "Music and War in the Twentieth Century"; "Development of a Biotechnology: Protein Design and Engineering"; "Honors Asian Philosophy"; "Honors Special Topics in Writing: Horror"; "Human Aging: The Ticking Biological Clock Within"; "Honors German Fairy Tales"; and "Babies are Not Pizzas: The Science of How Babies are Born, Not Delivered."

All Honors courses should incorporate at least one of the following elements: interdisciplinary content, use of primary materials, independent research, intensive discussion, intensive writing, and the development of critical thinking and analytical skills.

Social Sciences and Arts and Creativity courses are of particular interest at the moment, but Honors would encourage any interested faculty of any discipline to take a look at the requirements and consider designing and proposing a course. More information is available at http://www.uky.edu/academy/teach-course. 

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