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Course Proposals Sought From Faculty for Humanities Center (2022-23)

September 19, 2021
Submitted By: Nicholas Ealy

Full-time faculty from all colleges of the University are invited to submit a course proposal for the Humanities Center’s Seminar in the academic year 2022-23.

The proposal should outline a broad, interdisciplinary theme that will attract students from across the University. Recent themes have included “Framing War,” “Ecological Perspectives,” “Creativity,” “Love and Desire,” “Utopia/Dystopia,” “Remembering 9/11,” “Our Monsters, Ourselves,” “The Secular and the Spiritual,” “Living in a Post-Truth World,” “Transversing Gender,” “Lights, Camera, Activism,” and, for 2021-22 “Irrationality, Anti-Politics and Conspiracy Theories.” Past seminar leaders have found that working with the University’s best students and with colleagues and visiting lecturers who share their interests is intellectually rewarding.

Here’s how the seminar works and what one needs to do to submit a proposal:

• The seminar leader is the instructor for two honors courses on a particular theme, HON 389 in the fall and HON 390 in the spring. The seminar meets each semester on Tuesday evenings from 5 p.m.-7:20 p.m. and is taught to student fellows, fifteen excellent students from across the University. Students must apply to be fellows and must take the seminar both semesters. In addition, three or five faculty fellows, who are working on research projects related to the Center’s theme, are chosen to give lectures in the spring and to contribute in other ways as agreed upon with the seminar leader.

• The leader works with the director to plan a public lecture series in the spring that supplements the course’s interdisciplinary focus. Each faculty fellow presents one of the spring lectures. The seminar leader also invites outside speakers to participate in the spring lecture series.

• The seminar leader receives a stipend of $1,500 for planning the course.

• Please submit your proposal to Nicholas Ealy, Director (ealy@hartford.edu) by Nov. 5, 2021 and include a description of the proposed seminar theme, topics the seminar would address, possible readings, a brief discussion of the format you would use, and a brief CV. Let the director know if you have any questions and/or are interested in obtaining samples of previous successful proposals before submitting.

• Remember that the seminar should emphasize the humanities but also approach the proposed topic from multiple disciplines (not necessarily limited to the humanities). The center specifically welcomes proposals dealing with issues of diversity, equity and inclusion as well as those dealing with Ethnic Studies and minoritized populations. The opportunity is open to all full-time faculty from all colleges of the University.