Honors Humanities Invites Applications For Distinguished Faculty Fellows
April 04, 2011
UMD's Honors Humanities is asking for applications for the Faculty Fellows program for the academic year 2011-2012.
UMD's Honors Humanities is asking for applications for the Faculty Fellows program for the academic year 2011-2012.
Honors Humanities, one of the University of Maryland’s premier living-learning programs within the Honors College, welcomes applications for its third annual Distinguished Faculty Fellow positions. The Faculty Fellow program is part of the university’s greater initiative to honor and integrate within the university’s finest academic programs its most dedicated and innovative faculty. Distinguished Faculty Fellows will work with the Honors Humanities program for the academic year 2011-2012. The Fellowship comes with a $5,000 stipend.
Fellows’ responsibilities: Fellow responsibilities extend over two semesters. In the Fall, Fellows join the Honors Humanities community and get to know its student members. They deliver one public lecture introducing Honors Humanities students to their academic discipline, and attend at least 3 Honors Humanities events (for example, the opening get-together for new students). In the Spring, Fellows teach one section of the small seminar course HHUM 106, “Practical Applications in the Arts.
HHUM 106: The second of three required courses in the Honors Humanities curriculum, HHUM 106 has two components between which class time and assignments are divided. About two thirds of the course revolves around a case study of a particular artistic form (in visual art, performance art, literature, or architecture), asking how such forms arise and change and with what broader goals and effects. This case study culminates in students producing an instance of the specific form under study. An additional one third of the course is devoted to aiding first-year students in their progress on independent Honors projects. (For a description of these projects, see Keystone Project webpage.) With support from the Honors Humanities program, this part of the course offers instruction in research methods and creates in-class opportunities for students to apply that instruction to their own projects. Faculty Fellows will be expected to attend several sessions in August 2011 on preparing the HHUM106 syllabus and integrating the keystone preparation process into it. The Honors Humanities Director, Associate Director, and staff will work closely with Faculty Fellows to ensure that courses reflect the HHUM106 course distribution and goals.
Recent offerings of HHUM 106 have included The Avatar Project, New Media and Intercultural Communication between the West and the Arab World, Graphic Novels and Graphic Cultures, and American Humor and Its Discontents. (More information about these and other courses can be found at the Honors Humanities Academics website.) Future offerings could extend to any artistic form of some significant bearing on human culture, society, and their diversities.
Requirements: Faculty Fellows must be tenured or tenure-track faculty at the University of Maryland. The Fellowship carries a $5000 stipend and a course buyout from Fellows’ home departments in the Spring. Fellows must be prepared to teach at 4 p.m. or later, in order to avoid conflicts with courses in students’ majors. Applications should be accompanied by an endorsement from the department chair approving the application and stating that the department would approve a buy-out for the Spring semester of $9,000 if the faculty were selected as an Honors Faculty Fellow.
To apply: To apply for an Honors Humanities Distinguished Fellow position, please send a brief letter describing your research and the course you propose teaching to Dr. Valerie Orlando, Director of Honors Humanities and Professor of French and Francophone Literatures, at vorlando@umd.edu. All letters need to be received by April 25, 2011. For more information on the Honors Humanities program and examples of its courses, see the Honors Humanities Academics website.