Summer Session and the Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) invite proposals from interested faculty to develop online courses that will be offered during summer quarter 2025, 2026, and beyond.* This Call for Proposals is open to Senate faculty, and to Continuing Lecturers and Senior Continuing Lecturers. Proposals must be submitted by Monday, October 21, 2024.
Proposals will be considered for online courses that will help significant numbers of our students make progress toward their degrees during summer. Proposed courses may include online versions of major requirements or bottleneck courses; pairs or sequences of courses; high-enrollment or impacted courses; or courses that are key for degree progress for incoming first-year or transfer students, such as prerequisites, major and declaration requirements. Summer quarter courses run in 5-, 8-, or 10-week sessions. Students prefer the intensive 5-week format when appropriate. Multiple proposals from faculty in the same department or college may be submitted.
Faculty will work with an assigned instructional designer and other TLC staff. Course development will begin with a group orientation session led by facilitators from the TLC. Awardees will meet individually with instructional designers every week throughout the quarter and as needed during the first offering of the course. On-campus studios, loaner equipment, and editing services will be available for video production.
Course development will span one quarter. Courses may be developed in any quarter prior to the first offering of the course. Senate faculty awardees will receive one course release at the standard rate for the quarter in which the course is developed. Continuing Lecturers will receive compensation for 1 IWC at their individual rate and consistent with maximum compensation policy for the quarter in which the course is developed. All awardees will receive support from the TLC to develop and implement the course.
Awardees will be required to work with their department or college to submit a request for online course approval to the Curriculum Approval and Tracking (CAT) system by January 5, 2025, per the course approval calendar. Requests in CAT must then be forwarded by the sponsoring division to the Senate Committee on Courses of Instruction (CCI) by January 15, 2025. Courses may not be taught online without CCI approval. TLC staff will support awardees with the preparation of course approval materials.
The deadline for the submission of proposals is Monday, October 21, 2024.
Proposal Guidelines
Using this form, respond to the questions below. You will also be asked to append the current course syllabus to your proposal, to indicate when the course will first be offered and which quarter you will develop the course in, and to confirm that you have discussed both the need for your proposed course and the offering commitment with your department chair or college provost. Summer Session and the TLC will seek chair/provost confirmation prior to notifying awardees. Here, again, is the form.
- Provide a brief overview of the course, including learning activities that students engage in.
- Provide the maximum enrollment for the course (or indicate that there would be no cap) as well as an estimate for the expected summer enrollment in the course.
- Indicate the proposed modality of the course — synchronous, asynchronous, or a mix of synchronous and asynchronous.
- Indicate whether you are proposing a new course or a new modality for an existing course.
- Briefly discuss how the course fits within the curriculum, its capacity during the other three quarters, and any relationships to other courses.
- Provide a preliminary explanation as to how the modality could be leveraged to support the activities, assignments, and assessments in the course.
- Provide the quarter and year you would be available to develop the course, and in which summer session it would first be offered.
Contact the TLC at tlc@ucsc.edu with any questions.
* All awardees retain intellectual property rights to their developed course materials as defined in the UC policy addressing the Ownership of Course Materials. Faculty participation in this opportunity is voluntary. A condition of the program is that the awarded instructor agrees to make the course available for offering in five consecutive summer quarters. The awarded instructor has the first right of refusal to teach the course. If they refuse, the department chair or college provost can select an alternative instructor. While uncommon, if this happens, the course materials will be made available to the alternative instructor for use during the offering term only. The original and unaltered version of the course will be retained by the awarded instructor.