Teaching Resources

Teaching Resources

• Funding allows faculty to hire a student as an hourly Course Development Assistant (CDA) in advance of the class, to help support logistics and course development (this is not a teaching role).
• Funding supports local field trips, special course materials, local guest speakers, meals with students, and similar enhancements, sometimes including sustained travel away from campus. (No alcohol is permitted at any SoCo meal or event.)
• Faculty choose two student staff (SCAs or AIAs) older undergraduates who live in program housing with the students, help students engage with the course material, provide organizational support for trips, and are critical to the living-learning experience. SCAs/AIAs are not Teaching Assistants and cannot grade student work, but act as peer learning mentors. The program recruits SCA/AIA applications and trains and pays SCAs/AIAs.
• SoCo/Arts Intensive organizes the residential component of the program, providing on-campus housing and dining for all students and student staff.
• SoCo/Arts Intensive handles all aspects of course administration including setting up the course record, overseeing the application system, ordering books, arranging classrooms, providing rooms for movie nights, etc.
• SoCo/Arts Intensive promotes the program to students and manages the student application process. Participants in each class are chosen by faculty.
• SoCo/Arts Intensive ensures that this opportunity is open to all students so that classes have a mix of participants. Students pay an all-inclusive program fee, which is heavily subsidized and covers tuition, room, board, textbooks, and any course-required travel; that fee is further reduced based on need.