[Faculty] Call for additional University Honors ignition seminars for Fall 2022

[Honorsdirector]

June 9, 2022

To:       UCR faculty members
From:   Richard A. Cardullo, Howard H Hays Jr. Chair, University Honors
Re:       Need for three or four more University Honors Ignition Seminars for fall and call for 2023/24 Honors elective courses

Dear colleagues,
University Honors is growing and we have a need for an additional three or four Ignition Seminars this fall. These courses are a critical element of our programming and constitute a vital part of the honors curriculum. A description of these small classes is given below:
Ignition Seminars
Ignition seminars are small inter-disciplinary courses that are limited to fifteen first-year students from all schools and colleges. Depending on the specific topic that is chosen by the faculty member, Ignition seminars are interdisciplinary in nature and students receive breadth credit in either humanities (HNPG 16), social sciences (HNPG 17), or interdisciplinary studies (HNPG 18). Classes meet for 3 hours each week with an emphasis on reading the literature, oral presentations, essays, and papers to prepare them for the rigor of an honors education. Classes are generally repeatable only once but may serve as a testing ground for future UCR courses in other programs. Faculty members who are selected to teach an ignition seminar will receive a $5,000 stipend each year with student evaluations of teaching submitted to their home department.
To apply to teach an ignition seminar, please fill out an application with a brief description of your course at this address:
https://ucrhonors.wufoo.com/forms/z1o4uckd1o0t8s4/
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis and decisions will be made no later than June 30, 2022.
As always, feel free to reach out to University Honors with any questions regarding our courses. You may contact either me at honorsdirector at ucr.edu<mailto:honorsdirector at ucr.edu>, or Jane Kim at jane.kim @ucr.edu<mailto:dennis.mciver at ucr.edu>
Thank you for support of our students in University Honors.

Sincerely,

Richard A. Cardullo, PhD
Howard H Hays Jr. Chair and Faculty Director, University Honors

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