| Teaching Selected Studies
(Lower Division) Courses
Although these sections of core and introductory courses
are usually designated as Honors courses by the chairs of
the department responsible for the courses, please contact
the Honors Director if you are interested in teaching a Selected
Studies course.
A-sections (the manner in which Selected Studies freshman
and sophomore courses are designated) are special courses
in three ways:
- Enrollment is generally limited to a maximum of 25, much
smaller than the standard versions of core or introductory
courses.
- All students are usually part of Selected Studies.
- Honors is committed to recruiting the best instructors
available from individual departments, providing an opportunity
for some of the best faculty and best undergraduates at
UH Manoa to interact in the classroom.
Instructors should take advantage of the abilities of bright,
motivated Selected Studies students by preparing a course
more challenging than the standard version by using one or
a variety of techniques. One obvious way, because of small
class size, is to give students more responsibility for analyzing
material than would be possible in a large lecture section.
Student discussions, oral reports, or lab presentations are
all appropriate. Instructors may also assign more material
or more challenging material than they would in standard sections
of the course, within reasonable limits. These courses are
an opportunity to stretch boundaries.
The essence of an A-section for both instructor and students
should be a more challenging, more engaging, more intimate
experience. A-sections offer instructors the opportunity to
work with some of the best and brightest undergraduates at
Manoa to create the sense of community that should accompany
intellectual endeavor when all participants are thoroughly
engaged.
Compensation to departments for release time to teach a Selected
Studies courses is available. Specifics of that compensation
are worked out with department chairs.
Thanks for your interest,
Dr. James E. Caron
Director |
