DPD Faculty Seminar
Rationale
The DPD Program offers the Faculty Development Seminar once a year to the OSU faculty who regularly teach classes at OSU. The goals of this seminar are:
- To introduce disciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarship and perspectives on race, gender, class, sexual identity and other institutionalized systems of inequality in the United States;
- To provide resources for planning, revising and teaching courses for the DPD requirement;
- To develop pedagogical strategies for incorporating multicultural diversity in the classroom;
- To increase awareness and sensitivity to difference;
- To provide the basis for an ongoing community discussion in which issues of difference can be addressed among colleagues across disciplines.
View 2008 Faculty Seminar Syllabus here.
2009 Faculty Seminar
Call for Applications: Begins March 1, 2009
The Summer 2009 DPD Faculty Seminar offers a unique professional development opportunity for faculty. Whether you teach a DPD course or simply want to include more content about issues of difference and power in your classes, the seminar offers an opportunity for you to reflect on the intersections of difference, power, and privilege within your discipline in the context of a multidisciplinary and supportive community of colleagues. The seminar also focuses on pedagogical issues and should enhance your repertoire of teaching strategies, especially those related to issues of difference and power.
The Summer 2009 faculty seminar is open to all faculty members, with preference given to academic/teaching faculty. Nine month faculty members receive a $2500 stipend for their participation. All other interested faculty members are welcome to participate. Books and other materials are provided. We have space available for eight nine-month faculty, and we have room for fifteen participants.
Faculty participant will have the following responsibilities during the seminar:
- Participation: Attend all seminar sessions during Summer 2009;
- Analysis: Read and discuss assigned readings that relate to DPD theories and pedagogy;
- Teaching: Engage with other seminar participants in ideas about new courses and teaching strategies;
- Service: Act as a consultant within your own unit, and across disciplines about DPD, and serve as a mentor to other faculty who are interested in teaching DPD courses and/or course content related to DPD issues.
Summer Seminar Schedule:
The 2009 Summer Seminar schedule and due date for applications are to be arranged.
Applications can be found here.