Teaching Grants & Support

If an application is approved, the Dean's Office will work closely with the faculty member by providing financial and logistical support for the Global Immersion trip. Depending on the nature of the trip, this will include covering all faculty costs and supporting students with demonstrated financial need. Faculty leaders will receive a $2, 500 course development stipend for newly proposed courses.

To submit an application, please complete the fields below and attach the supporting materials as requested by 5:00PM on March 3, 2025. The application can also be emailed to the BCLA Resource & Planning Manager Jasmine Hamm (jasmine.hamm@lmu.edu) by 5:00PM on March 3, 2025. The online application saves work in progress, but after one month of inactivity, the response will be recorded as-is. Please note: Save and Continue uses cookies to save progress. It will only work if the survey is re-accessed on the same internet browser on the same computer.

All proposals will be reviewed by the BCLA Student Success and Engagement Committee, which will make recommendations to the Dean who makes the final decision. Applicants will be notified whether their proposal has been approved by May 9, 2025, so there will be sufficient time to plan and organize the course and trip over the summer.

Please direct any questions to Jasmine Hamm (jasmine.hamm@lmu.edu).

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Eligibility

 Team teaching is open to continuing, full-time BCLA faculty members (tenured, tenure-track, clinical faculty and instructors). As the grants aim to establish interdisciplinary collaboration, preference will be given to teams constituted by faculty from different departments.

Because non-tenure-line faculty are sometimes hired to teach specific courses, pre-approval from the chair for non-tenure-line applicants is required. There is a box on the Qualtrics form where applicants can verify pre-approval.

Expectations

• Each member of the team will teach their own independent course, just as they would on their normal course However, the successful applicants will agree to teach their course in the same time slot, facilitating collaboration during the semester (e.g., TR at 0940, or MWF at 1100, and so on), and the professors will agree to link the content of their courses meaningfully and substantially.
• The courses are planned by award recipients and should, at a minimum, do the following:
  • focus on the same theme from different disciplinary
  • meet jointly for an equivalent of two weeks of the semester, which need not occur consecutively. That is, if the linked courses meet once per week, there would need to be a minimum of two joint class meetings, whereas if a course meets three times per week there would need to be six joint class meetings. These joint meetings could be used to invite guest speakers relevant to the topic, to conduct exercises or exchanges between classes, to engage in discussion or debate relevant to the subject matter, and so on. Because the classes will meet together during these events, teams should plan for alternative venues that will accommodate the two classes.
  • construct syllabi with approximately 25% common content, which could take a variety of forms: the aforementioned common events or experiences; common readings between the classes; common assignments between the classes; collaborative assignments between the classes (e.g., group projects drawing on students from both classes); or other similar forms of cooperation and
• Award recipients are strongly encouraged to teach the team-taught (i.e., the linked) courses more than Given that the bulk of the work associated with such linked courses will occur in the planning of the courses and that unanticipated challenges will be worked out in the first iteration, award recipients are encouraged, where possible, to plan on teaching the linked courses in more than one semester; some priority will be given to applicants who plan or aspire to teach the linked courses more than once.

• Award recipients will be required to submit a final report of their team-teaching experience with an attached updated course syllabus. This report should include (a) a brief narrative reflecting on the outcomes of the courses, focusing on student experiences; (b) copies of both syllabi, with common content (readings, assignments, class meetings, etc.) clearly highlighted; and (c) a rough account of how the programing fees were spent.

Support and Compensation

The BCLA can support up to five (5) team-teaching proposals each year, which will work as follows:

• Successful applicants will each be awarded a $1000 summer course development grant to compensate for work related to the development of the team-taught courses.
• In addition, each team may apply for up to $2000 for programming, speaker fees, or other support for the courses.
• In consultation with their Chairs and with the BCLA Dean’s Office, successful applicant teams will be given priority scheduling for their preferred time slots, particularly during the first semester/iteration that the linked courses will be run.
• It is recommended that the classes involved in cross-disciplinary collaboration be capped at the “lower level” of standard BCLA course numbers (i.e., 18 students per section).

Applications

Applications should include the following:

1. faculty members’ names and departments
2. preliminary course title
3. a narrative explaining the following:
   1. the theme or themes addressed by the course, as well as explanation about how the two disciplines approach these themes differently or how the two professors approach the course’s central question(s) differently.
   2. a preliminary vision of how the interdisciplinary collaboration between the courses might take place (e.g., possible shared readings, possible guest speakers, possible shared events, or possible shared experiences).
   3. an account of how the interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration will benefit students or enhance students’ experiences.
4. an up-to-date curriculum vitae for each of the applying

In the case of equally strong applicants, preference will be given to new applicant teams over teams proposing a second pair of linked courses for approval (i.e., for first-time applicants over previous awardees), and preference will be given to courses that serve the core curriculum.

Teams that are awarded a grant and that would like to request supplementary funding (up to

$2000.00) for programming, speaker fees, or other support for the courses, should submit their request by using the table below. Requests may be submitted after the new fiscal year begins in summer 2025. Please email the table to Stuart.Ching@lmu.edu.

Names:

Course Title(s):