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Deadline: October 31st, 2025

Eligibility

Proposals for team-taught courses must be submitted by at least one full-time faculty member. The team-teaching application is open to anyone in the University. One team member must be a full-time faculty member at BGSU. The other team member may be full-time or part-time faculty of any rank, a graduate student instructor, or someone not affiliated with BGSU.  

Proposals due in Fall will be for courses offered in Spring of the next AY (18 months later), to allow for adequate planning time and coordination with affected units, including recruiting students to register for the team-taught course and ensuring they receive credit toward the major.

Priority will be given to proposals that

• Incorporate a connection with BG Perspectives general education courses and/or exhibit long-term curricular viability.
• Affiliate with existing ICS Clusters and demonstrate the Cluster's ongoing commitment to interdisciplinary and/or multidisciplinary teaching by including other Cluster participants as visiting lecturers and requiring student attendance at ICS events.
• Build on existing resources or ongoing interdisciplinary efforts, such as the AI Minor, or requiring students to attend the ICS Faculty Fellowship events or to present at a campus interdisciplinary conference (i.e. Symposium on Diversity, Latino/a/x Issues, Class Con).
• Meaningfully and purposefully bring together student populations, disciplines, and/or methodologies that might not often interact.
• Emphasize innovative, interdisciplinary processes that disrupt conventional approaches to teaching the subject matter.
• Develop resources, tools, assignments, or activities to support or encourage further interdisciplinary collaborations. 

Application Process

Proposals for courses must be submitted 18 months in advance of the proposed course dates. Proposals will be accepted each academic year and reviewed for consideration by the ICS Executive Board and the ICS Director.

Potential applicants are encouraged to discuss initial ideas with ICS Director Valeria Grinberg Pla at vgrinb@bgsu.edu

Team Teaching Proposals must include

• First and second applicants’ information, including applicants' names, emails, titles, CV/resume, and endorsements from participating unit chairs/directors and college deans.
• Proposed course information 
  • Course title and description​
  • Objectives/learning outcomes​
  • Course proposal explaining how this course creates connections and uses resources to create an unconventional approach to enhance the learning experience of students from two or more programs.​
  • Advertisement and enrollment plan for proposed student target audience.​
  • Proposed semester/year