Dear UTC Faculty:
I would like to take this opportunity to share with you information
regarding a unique teaching opportunity available through UTC's membership
in the Cooperative Center for Study Abroad (CCSA). For those of you who
may be unfamiliar with the Cooperative Center for Study Abroad, CCSA is a
higher education consortium of 24 colleges and universities headquartered
at Northern Kentucky University. The consortium develops, plans, and
coordinates regularly scheduled study abroad programs in Australia,
Barbados, Belize, England, Ghana, Ireland, Kenya, New Zealand, Scotland,
and Singapore, in addition to other study abroad, alumni, or community
programs in English-speaking regions. We offer 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's 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
taught in CCSA programs. This past summer, for example, Ms. Dana Moody,
Human Ecology faculty member, taught a history of interior design course in
the London Summer program. During the summer of 2001, Mr. Ron Buffington,
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. This winter,
Mr. David Young, Art department faculty, will be teaching a course in
drawing in the London Winter Program.
The CCSA Board of Trustees is now accepting proposals from faculty for
courses to be taught in the 2003/2004 London Winter, Australia, and Kenya
Programs. Appropriate courses in all disciplines are welcome. The deadline
for submission of course proposals for the winter programs to the CCSA
curriculum committee is September 27, 2002. Faculty will be notified of
CCSA's decision in late November 2002. [I would appreciate your sending me
your proposals by Friday, September 20, 2002, so that I can review them
before sending them to the CCSA curriculum committee.]
For those of you considering one of CCSA's summer programs (currently,
Australia/New Zealand, Barbados, Belize, Ghana, Ireland, London,
Scotland/England, and Singapore), the deadline for submission of proposals
has been scheduled for mid-February. I will provide further details
pertaining to these programs in December. [I will, however, accept
proposals for the 2004 CCSA summer programs (currently, Australia/New
Zealand, Barbados, Belize, Ghana, Ireland, London, Scotland/England, and
Singapore) on September 20th, for those who would like to submit a course
early.]
Let me encourage you to think about these opportunities.
If you are interested in putting together a proposal for the any of the
Winter 2003 programs and would like to see a copy of a previous proposal, I
have several proposal from past programs on file and would be glad to share
them with you.
I would also encourage you to visit CCSA's website at
http://www.ccsa.cc. For your convenience, the course proposal form is
available in Adobe Acrobat, Rich Text, and Microsoft Word formats in the
Faculty Info section of the CCSA website. Please feel free to contact me
for additional information or to obtain a course proposal form (printed
copy or via email as an attachment). I look forward to hearing from you.
Hugh Prevost
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Hubert L. Prevost, Jr. PH: 423/425-4735
Director FAX: 423/425-4768
Office of Cooperative Education and International Programs
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Dept 1751
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN, USA 37403-2598
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