Individually Designed Courses Clause Samples
The 'Individually Designed Courses' clause establishes the framework for creating customized educational courses tailored to the specific needs or interests of a student. Typically, this clause outlines the process for proposing, approving, and monitoring such courses, which may involve collaboration between the student, faculty advisor, and relevant academic departments. By allowing for flexibility beyond standard curriculum offerings, this clause enables students to pursue unique academic goals or specialized topics not covered by existing courses, thereby promoting personalized learning and academic innovation.
Individually Designed Courses. The University recognizes the academic value of individually designed courses consistent with a student’s academic program that furnish intellectual and practical experiences not available in a multi-student course.
Individually Designed Courses. The University recognizes the value of individually designed courses including Independent Study, Specialized Individual Study, Thesis, Capstones, Senior Projects, Professional Projects, and Directed Studies taught by arrangement. Individually designed courses are subject to approval by the Division Chair and College ▇▇▇▇. Student credit hours generated from individually designed courses taught outside the tenured or tenure-track faculty member’s regular teaching load during any academic term are eligible for credit banking for end of academic year compensation adjustment subject to the following conditions*:
A. To be eligible for credit banking, faculty must have taught an annual average of 36 credits over the course of the current academic year and previous academic year or taught the required hours due to a ▇▇▇▇ approved reassignment over the same period. Faculty teaching a graduate teaching load and LMS faculty are also eligible.
B. In the event that a faculty member has not taught an annual average of 36 credits over the course of the current academic year and previous academic year, the faculty member’s credit load in each of those years will be considered individually by academic year. In those academic years where the faculty member taught 36 credits over the course of a single academic year or meet the required hours due to a ▇▇▇▇ approved reassignment, that faculty member will be eligible for credit banking under this section. In those academic years where the faculty member did not teach 36 credits over the course of the single academic year or meet the required hours due to a ▇▇▇▇ approved reassignment, that faculty member will not be eligible for credit banking under this section.
C. For eligible faculty, credits and compensation will be defined as follows:
Individually Designed Courses. A. Non-Tenure Track faculty who conduct individually-designed coursework during an academic term in addition to their 15-credit teaching load - having received approval from the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ to conduct such coursework in addition to their 15-credit teaching load - will be compensated as in Part B below at the conclusion of the term in which the coursework was conducted.
B. Compensation for Non-Tenure Track faculty who, having received approval from the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, conduct individually-designed coursework during an academic term in addition to their 15-credit teaching load will be calculated according to the following formula: Pay = (Student Credit Hour credit total ÷ 12) ÷ (45 unit annual workload) x (averaged annual salary rate over the previous two academic years or the annual salary rate during the academic year in which 0.5 FTE is reached).
Individually Designed Courses. A. Non-Tenure Track faculty who conduct individually-designed coursework during an academic term in addition to their 15-credit teaching load - having received approval from the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ to conduct such coursework in addition to their 15-credit teaching load - will be compensated as in Part B below at the conclusion of the term in which the coursework was conducted.
Individually Designed Courses. The University recognizes the value of individually designed courses including Independent Study, Specialized Individual Study, Thesis, Capstones, Senior Projects, Professional Projects, and Directed Studies taught by arrangement. Individually designed courses are subject to approval by the Division Chair and College ▇▇▇▇. Student credit hours generated from individually designed courses taught outside the tenured or tenure-track faculty member’s regular teaching load during any academic term are eligible for credit banking for subsequent reassignment, subject to the following conditions:
(1) Reassignment is calculated as 12 credits = 1 credit hour of reassignment
(2) Individually designed courses of 3 credits or higher are capped at 3 SCH; special circumstances may be appealed to the ▇▇▇▇.
(3) Directed Study courses will be credit banked at the SCH of the regularly- offered course; e.g., a 4-unit course = 4 banked credits
(4) Banked credits expire after 60 months
(5) Maximum of 1 course reassignment (via traditional credit banking described here or Honors Committee credit banking for directing Honors Senior Projects/Theses)* can be redeemed within a two-year period
(6) Graduate faculty on a 9-hour per term teaching load are excluded
(7) Reassignment may occur during fall, winter or spring terms only
(8) Division chairs indicate whether the individually designed course is taught in- load or out-of-load
(9) Request for reassignment is made through the Division Chair in the spring preceding the academic year when the reassignment is to occur
(10) Credits banked under a previous Collective Bargaining Agreement are calculated as specified in that Agreement *See Appendix J for Honors Senior Project/Thesis Credit Banking The Division Chair will provide faculty with a report of banked credits on an annual basis. Types of individually-designed courses are defined as follows: