Teach for Arts Intensive
"This is the deepest teaching relationship with students that I have had at Stanford." —Arts Intensive Instructor
Why Teach Arts Intensive?
The Arts Intensive Program offers students the opportunity to study intensively with Stanford arts instructors and small groups of other Stanford students passionate about art.
What Students Say
Students remark that connecting with the Arts Intensive faculty intellectually and socially truly makes this program exceptional and gives students creative insights that they will carry through their undergraduate studies and beyond to their future endeavors.
Benefits of Teaching
Arts Intensive provides the opportunity to do a range of creative exercises in class and lets students explore their creativity without the fear of failure. Teaching a single subject every day outside of the regular academic calendar allows you to focus on a single creative project without the distraction of other courses and responsibilities. This freedom from the hectic pace of your regular course-load is as rewarding for the faculty as the students.
Proposing an Arts Intensive Course
We encourage you to develop your Arts Intensive course so that it may fulfill the Creative Expression (WAYS) Breadth requirement.
We begin to recruit instructors and consider course ideas in October and November each year. Contact us at artsintensive@stanford.edu if you would like to learn more or propose a course idea. Your Stanford department must approve your teaching with Arts Intensive.
In the winter and spring before Arts Intensive, faculty will need submit course descriptions and details (early January), to review applications from potential Arts Intensive Apprentices (March) and from student applicants (April), and to attend one program orientation meeting (April). Book orders are due in early March and faculty generally draft a preliminary syllabus by late May, when each professor holds a Spring Class Meeting to meet students and discuss summer reading assignments.
Teaching Resources
Arts Intensive is committed to supporting an intensive learning experience for students and an exceptional teaching experience for faculty.
- Instructors select two undergraduate or graduate students to serve as Arts Intensive Program Assistants (AIPAs) to provide teaching and program support. AIPAs live in program housing with their students, hold office hours in the dorm, and provide other out-of-class leadership.
- Course supplies and enhancement funding are provided for guest speakers, field trips, and presentation of the students’ course projects.
- Curriculum development assistance is funded for faculty to hire a student in the spring or summer.
- Stanford Introductory Studies staff provide support for all course administration, including ordering books, arranging classrooms, and setting up field trips.