Purpose:       To develop and offer new interdisciplinary, team-taught courses that address issues of diversity and democracy for entering students as part of the Rowan Seminar program.

Program:

• Fund faculty teams to attend a workshop to develop the new courses
• Fund departments to make it possible for faculty to offer the new team-taught courses in the fall semester of freshmen year.

Workshops:

• Five-days
• mornings devoted to group discussions with faculty and facilitators
• afternoon for teams to develop and write the course proposals
• outcome- fully developed interdisciplinary, team-taught course proposal ready for curriculum review
• each faculty member will receive a stipend for participation and completion of the proposal
• offered twice a year for the duration of the grant

Implementation:

• Schedule new courses for fall semester of the year as Rowan Seminar courses for entering freshmen
• Fund departments to allow faculty to teach these courses
• Funded for the duration of the grant

• Retention data
• Attitude assessment instrument (to be developed)
• Qualitative data via focus groups
• Follow up on student involvement after RS course