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Academic Affairs > Teaching Opportunities in the Honors Program

Teaching Opportunities in the Honors Program

Teach Honors

The Indiana University Honors Program seeks dynamic and thoughtful instructors to teach in the Common Intellectual Experience Courses (Honors 103 and Honors 104), as well as in the multidisciplinary seminars (Honors 306 and Honors 307) offered through the Honors Program. We seek faculty members for the 2010-2011 academic year.

Honors courses at the 300-level have included Can Art be Bad for You?, Globalization, and Evolutionary Psychology. In the fall semester of this year, Chancellor Patterson-Randles taught a seminar on the Hero, and Ms. Donna Daily taught a course called Social Justice. This spring, Ms. Tresa Reynolds is teaching a seminar about Jane Austen’s Flawed Protagonists, and Dr. Gary Pinkston is teaching a course called Digital Storytelling. These courses, like all HP courses, are expected to be multidisciplinary in content, in order that students might grow in their ability to see questions and issues across disciplines.

While the curriculum of the 100-level courses is somewhat more prescribed (in order to fulfill general education objectives, as well as create a Common Intellectual Experience for our students), faculty members who work with the 100-level students get to play a formative role in these students’ education. Prior to book ordering time, these faculty members negotiate readings for all the H103 and H104 students to have in common. These faculty members also guide students through year-long individual and group research projects which culminate in presentation at the regional honors conference (generally held in late March) and/or the student research conference in April. In addition, they’ll help Honors Program students become more poised and polished writers and public speakers and critical thinkers. It is an invigorating experience for everyone involved.

If you would like to teach a 100-level course next year, please send me an email, your Curriculum Vitae, your philosophy of teaching Honors students, and your preferred semester teaching (if one semester is preferable to another). If you’d like to offer a 300-level course for consideration, please also include a course title and a description of the course as you currently envision it. The more information you have about what your course will encompass, the projects students will undertake, and your grading and assessment methods the better. Know, as well, that the Honors Program will bear the expense of your adjunct replacement in your home department when you teach in the Honors Program.

The deadline for these materials is Wednesday, September 16th, 2009. If you have any questions about participation as a faculty member in the Honors Program, please address them to me at amsalas@ius.edu. In addition, there’s a plethora of information about the HP on our Website.

The Indiana University Southeast Honors Program:

Students in the Indiana University Southeast Honors Program (IUSHP) are a delight. They’re generally ambitious, intellectually curious, thoughtful, and self-motivated. They are not, however, graduate students. Thus, you should be aware that the Biology majors probably won’t know MLA format, and the English majors might never have worked with SPSS. They’re smart, and they are rewarding students with whom to work; however, when you think of your course, or envision teaching them, you should not envision these students as upper-level students in your field of study. If you keep that in mind, you should be able to design a challenging and rewarding course for the IUSHP students, and enjoy your time working with students outside your field.

A Snapshot of our Students:

We currently have 78 students in the HP. 34 of these students are continuing with the Program from last year; of these 34, we have 17 males and 17 females. We currently have 45 incoming students; of these, we have 15 males and 29 females.

  1. Two of our campus’s three Herbert Presidential Scholars (Ms. Heather Brown and Ms. Sarah Yeager) are members of the Honors Program
  2. The GPAs of the general population of students: Fall 2007 = 2.155; Spring 2008 =2.645 (census data)
  3. The GPAs of HP students: Fall 2007 = 3.657; Spring 2008 = 3.601
  4. Average credit hours attempted per semester by the general population of students (07-08): Fall 2007 = 11.008; Spring 2008 = 10.815 (census data)
  5. Average credit hours attempted by HP students (07-08): Fall 2007 = 13.372; Spring 2008 = 13.15
Selected Recent HP Student Achievements:

HP students Sarah Yeager and Heather Brown are Indiana University Southeast’s Herbert Scholars.

HP students Ann McNally, Courtney Pemberton, and Allison Dudley are recipients of the Chancellor’s Medallion Leadership Award for 2008-2009.

HP student Courtney Pemberton has recently been awarded a research grant from the Horseshoe Foundation (Caesars Foundation) of Floyd County. This grant will be used as Courtney conducts research for her Honors Project.

HP student Heather Brown is a current competitor in the Miss Indiana competition.

HP student Valerie DeVore is this year’s Miss Harvest Homecoming.

Our students just came back from the regional Honors Conference (March 27-29), in Kalamazoo. Fifteen students either gave papers or presented their research results in poster form. All the students did well and brought distinction to Indiana University Southeast. In addition, Ms. Jeri Hacker won first place in the poster competition, and Ms. Rebecca Yeager won third place. Two additional students were our technology gurus, and even assisted the conference organizers with assorted tasks.

Best regards,

Angela M. Salas, Ph.D.
Director of the Honors Program and Associate Professor of English
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