General statements regarding Teaching and Advising, Service, and Research appear in the Global Languages & Cultures Mission Statement. The additional guidelines below address specific details of faculty workload and responsibility not addressed in the Mission Statement. Their goal is to clarify workload policy and to assure that responsibilities are shared in a fair and collegial manner.<\/p>\n
The university-wide expectation of 15 credit hours per semester for full-time faculty applies. Lecturers and Instructors will normally teach seven courses per year, 4\/3 or 3\/4. Assuming 4-hour courses, this will average 14 credit hours per semester, 28 credit hours per annum. Tenure-line faculty receive one three-hour per semester release for service and another three-hour release to maintain a productive research agenda. This results in a teaching expectation of 9 credit-hours per semester. In Global Languages & Cultures, we try to make this conform to a 2\/3 or 3\/2 teaching load, but it is with the assumption that the total for the year will reach 18 hours. Faculty will ideally teach 3, 4-hour courses (12) and two 3-hour courses (6) over the course of the academic year.<\/p>\n
Supervision of student-teachers or increased service assignments (Spanish Section Head, Assistant Chair, Lower-Division Coordinator for Spanish) may make up some of the 18-hour responsibility (4.5 student teachers = 3 credit hours).<\/p>\n
While the above calculations support general parameters for faculty teaching assignments, some variation may necessarily occur. Especially in smaller sections, specific program needs, courses with small enrollment, or other factors may be considered along with credit hours in determining a faculty member\u2019s teaching load.<\/p>\n
As part of their teaching and advising responsibility, faculty also advise students and hold office hours, typically 5 hours per week (cf. Dept. Mission Statement). Advising needs in language sections may vary, but faculty accept the responsibility to share the load in an equitable fashion. It is also recognized that advising may take considerable time beyond scheduled office hours, especially at the beginning of the semester and during pre-registration periods.<\/p>\n
For tenure-line faculty, a one-course release per semester applies to service. For lecturers and instructors, the service obligation is typically the equivalent of a one-credit hour release per semester, assuming a 28 credit hour teaching load. Tenure-line faculty have a variety of service roles, including service on department, college, and university committees, administrative responsibilities (Section Heads in German, French, Navajo), and other department initiatives. Tenured faculty especially accept responsibility for leadership roles, including service on the FSC, leading searches, and helping maintain and develop the department\u2019s academic programs. Lecturers and instructors may expect to advise minors, contribute to department extra-curricular activities for students, and serve on committees. Where assigned service roles exceed the equivalent of a one-credit hour release per semester, additional release time may be negotiated with the chair.<\/p>\n
All Global Languages & Cultures faculty strive to be active professionally and current in their fields. This implies commitment to continuing progress in the area of professional development. Tenure-line faculty receive a three-credit hour release for research each semester. The department has defined the term “research productive” to mean publishing at least one major research article, or the equivalent, every two years. Tenure-line faculty who do not meet this criteria may be asked by the FSC and the chair to take on additional teaching responsibilities in place of the course release for research. Tenure-line faculty who are still working toward tenure may expect to receive the course release for research automatically. Faculty understand that this guideline applies only as a minimum departmental expectation. For promotion to associate professor with tenure or to full professor expectations will be higher.<\/p>\n
The department normally schedules classes from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. MTWTh, and from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Friday. Full-time faculty may be asked to teach at any of these times. Special pedagogical or program needs will receive first priority in determining where and when specific classes are scheduled. A genuine effort will be made to allow research-productive faculty one day per week without classes. To the extent possible, graduate assistants will receive consideration in adjusting their teaching schedules to the particular courses they need. (They hold responsibility for informing the Assistant Chair of their needs as soon as possible.) Personal preferences for teaching schedules will receive generous and collegial consideration after the above priorities and in keeping with the department\u2019s obligation for equitable treatment of all faculty. Similarly, faculty should plan their non-teaching schedules to accommodate committee work, attendance at department, college, and university faculty meetings, and other service responsibilities scheduled during the above hours.<\/p>\n
Global Languages & Cultures faculty agree to a collegial and constructive approach to maintaining quality in our departmental programs. All faculty accept the responsibility to work with section heads and coordinators to meet program goals. This responsibility applies especially to multi-section courses, where consistency across sections is important, as well as to assuring sequential articulation between courses in each program.<\/p>\n
This policy statement to be subject to revision, as necessary, with approvals of department faculty (by a majority vote at a regular faculty meeting), the chair, and the dean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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