Honors Instructor: Foundation Seminar

The Honors Program at Colorado State University seeks applications for part-time instructors interested in teaching the first-year foundation course, which functions as an important entry point to the arc of an Honors experience across all four years. First-Year seminar faculty need to be able to foster an environment of creative and interdisciplinary teaching and learning beyond the classroom. The foundation seminar fosters socially competent communicators with a discussion-based format. Students examine how identities and ideologies are reflected in their values, beliefs, assumptions, and communication behaviors. The foundational course undertakes interdisciplinary case studies, discussions and projects that enable students, as leaders of today and leaders of tomorrow, to cultivate curiosity about their surroundings and engage meaningfully and productively within their communities. This course provides a response to the growing complexities that face graduates navigating an increasingly polarized and siloed world that asks them to build bridges across deep divides. It takes seriously the university’s Land-Grant mission of purpose-driven education to address some of our world’s most complex and perplexing challenges, to improve the quality for all. It sets the tone for the larger Honors Program experience, as an interdisciplinary, proactive civic hub that prioritizes productive learning, scholarship, and engagement through our program objectives of professionalism, interdisciplinarity, critical thinking, creative problem-solving, and communication. This foundational course prioritizes pluralism and offers students practical, professional and civic competencies that position them well to be society’s next leaders, regardless of academic discipline. Instructors are hired on a part-time basis each semester which is determined by departmental instructor-need and student enrollment numbers. Applications will be reviewed when a vacancy occurs. CSU Honors instructors teach interdisciplinary Honors seminars as part of the Honors core curriculum. The Honors seminar sections range between 19 and 22 students and the small class size creates an optimal learning environment for students and faculty alike. Each Honors seminar integrates several All-University Core Curriculum requirements such as Written Communication, Historical Perspectives, Arts/Humanities, Social/Behavioral Sciences, and Global and Cultural Awareness.