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What is CourseShare?
CIC CourseShare: In December 2005, the CIC Deans of Liberal Arts & Sciences launched an effort to establish a voluntary, systematic method of sharing courses across the curriculum to enhance access to specialized graduate and low-enrollment offerings for all participating CIC universities and their students. The CourseShare initiative focuses primarily on offerings that can be “technology facilitated” to eliminate barriers of time and distance. Areas of curricular focus include less commonly taught languages (LCTLs), cultural and area studies, and other specialized seminars in the social sciences and humanities.
What is the purpose of the Conference Calls?
The calls will provide an opportunity for department heads, faculty, and others from two or more CIC institutions to discuss the possibility of sharing specialized graduate and low-enrollment courses via videoconference or other synchronous technology.
Each call will:
- Last approximately 50 minutes
- Begin with an introduction to CIC CourseShare
- Focus primarily on one of the targeted courses or areas of study
- Identify specialized, traditionally low-enrollment courses offered at CIC institutions participating in the call
- Discuss courses of interest to students which are not currently available at these institutions
- Explore opportunities for partnerships between interested institutions (shared courses, team teaching, shared minors, alternating terms of instruction between two or more institutions, etc)
- Outline next steps to facilitate collaboration
What courses and areas of study will be addressed during the conference calls this fall? How were these areas selected?
Campus Coordinators at each institution surveyed their departments for areas of interest in Spring 2006 and continue to relate faculty interest to CIC staff for further exploration. Together with the Campus Coordinators, we identified the target courses for Fall 2007 but we are always adding additional course possibilities to the database. If your area is not yet represented or your institution is not noted as a possible teaching or receiving campus for a course or area of study, please contact your Campus Coordinator!
When will the calls be held?
Most of the calls for discussing the Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) will all be held at 1:00 PM CT on Friday afternoons throughout Fall 2006:
- September 22: Arabic
- September 29: Uzbek
- October 13: Hindi
- October 20: Korean
- October 27: Yiddish
- November 3: Ukrainian
- November 10: Yoruba
- November 17: Indonesian
- December 1: Catalan
- December 8: Vietnamese
Three additional calls will be planned for 10:00 AM CT on Fridays this fall:
- September 22: Dutch
- September 29: Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences
- November 10: American Indian Studies
How can I participate?
If you have received an invitation to participate in one or more calls, please RSVP by sending email to aemarks@uiuc.edu. You will receive a confirmation message with call instructions and additional information. If you haven't received an invitation, please email aemarks@uiuc.edu to let us know you are interested.
I was unable to call in. What did I miss?
AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES CALL NOTES
ARABIC CALL NOTES
DUTCH CALL NOTES
HINDI CALL NOTES
INDONESIAN CALL NOTES
KOREAN CALL NOTES
SPEECH & HEARING SCIENCE CALL NOTES
UKRAINIAN CALL NOTES
UZBEK CALL NOTES
YIDDISH CALL NOTES
YORUBA CALL NOTES
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