Dear UTC Faculty:

I would like to take this opportunity to share with you information
regarding a teaching opportunity available through UTC's membership in the
Cooperative Center for Study Abroad (CCSA), a higher education consortium
of 22 colleges and universities head quartered at Northern Kentucky
University.  CCSA develops, plans, and coordinates regularly scheduled
study abroad programs in Australia, Barbados, Belize, England, Ghana,
Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, New Zealand, Scotland, Singapore, and South
Africa.  In addition, the consortium entertains proposals for offerings in
Hong Kong and Vancouver, as well as other study abroad, alumni, or
community programs in English-speaking regions.

CCSA offers courses in a very wide variety of academic disciplines; from
traditional liberal arts courses in history, literature, and art to
agriculture, business, the sciences, health care, and education.  CCSA
classes are taught by faculty from UTC and other consortium-member
universities.  Students can receive higher education credit (undergraduate,
graduate, and professional in-service) for successfully completing the CCSA
program in which they are enrolled. Since joining the consortium in 1992,
several UTC faculty and students have participated in CCSA programs.  This
past Winter for example, Mr. David Young, Assistant professor of art,
taught silver point drawing to ten of our students and several students
from other consortium colleges and universities.  Ms. Dana Moody, Human
Ecology faculty member, taught a history of interior design course in the
2002 London Summer program.  Summer 2001, Mr. Ron Buffing ton, Art
department faculty member, taught a modern painting class in London, and
Dr. Verbie Prevost taught a course in the Irish Short Story in
Ireland.  Other UTC faculty who have taught CCSA courses include Dr.
Marilyn Helms, Dr. Anne Bailey, and Professor Steve LeWinter.

CCSA can provide you with a great opportunity to teach a country-specific,
topical course in one of the countries listed above.

Deadline for Proposals:
The CCSA Board of Trustees is now accepting proposals from faculty for
courses to be taught during the summer of the year 2005.  Appropriate
courses in all disciplines are welcome.  The deadline for submission of
course proposals to my office at UTC for the CCSA Summer 2005 programs is
February 20, 2004.  Faculty will be notified of CCSA's decision in mid to
late March.

Course Requirements:
For programs of two- and three-week duration, the typical course plan
includes pre-trip readings, on-site journaling, and post-trip
projects/papers.  The classes are essentially conducted as the field trip
portion of courses for which travel to the respective countries can
constitute a critical academic element.

Proposal Form:
I would encourage you to visit the CCSA website at
<http://www.ccsa.cc/>http://www.ccsa.cc.  For your convenience, the course
proposal form is available in Microsoft Word, Rich Text, and Adobe Acrobat
formats in the Faculty Info section of the CCSA website.  Please feel free
to contact me <:[log in to unmask]> or call me at 425-4735) for
additional information or to obtain a course proposal form (printed copy).


I look forward to hearing from you.


Hugh Prevost