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Virtual Study Abroad Curriculum Development Grant Application FormDirections for Submission: Download, complete and save this documentSend to your chair and dean for signatures (last page). Electronic signatures acceptedChair/Dean returns to applicantApplicant saves, scans, and emails grant to lee.penyak@wmich.eduName of Faculty/Instructor of Record for the Course: Click or tap here to enter text.Faculty Director’s Department or Program: Click or tap here to enter text.Approximate Title of Proposed Course: Click or tap here to enter text.Country or Region Focus of “Virtual” Program: Click or tap here to enter text.Faculty Office Phone: Click or tap here to enter text.Faculty E-mail: Click or tap here to enter text.Approx. Starting Semester or Summer Term of Course(e.g., spring break 2021, summer I 2022, etc.): Click or tap here to enter text.Target Student Audience (major, minor, programs, student groups, etc.): Click or tap here to enter text.Preferred Enrollment Target: Click or tap here to enter text.Designed to help HIGE develop the program fee. However, the faculty-director’s dean determines college enrollment targets at the start of each recruitment cycle for a given study abroad program and determines if the course will be offered.Terms:The Study Abroad “Course” is the academic component of a study abroad program delivered by an appropriately trained and credentialed faculty expert. The faculty member designs the syllabus and determines learning outcomes, and follows the curriculum review process established by the department and college, such as submitting the syllabus and supporting materials for review by the chair, the department curriculum committee, and the college curriculum committee.?The Study Abroad “Program” consists of the support services provided by WMU SA to assist faculty who teach a study abroad course, such as advising for students and faculty, administration of processes (proposals, application processing, scholarship awards, travel registration), cross-department coordination (academic advising, financial aid, registrar, DSS, career services), financial management (program budget development, billing program fees), and risk management (insurance enrollment, pre-departure orientations, emergency response procedures).A “virtual” study abroad course implies that all course content will be delivered online and no travel is required.Please type your responses beneath each question.Provide a detailed description of the proposed study abroad virtual course.Click or tap here to enter text.How will this virtual course satisfy the 4 WMU SA “Student Learning Objectives”?Demonstrate an understanding of a host culture’s values through a global lens. (Knowledge)Increase global cognitive, professional and/or language skills. (Proficiencies)Gain heightened awareness of their own individual origins, practices and habits, and empathize with other cultures. (Perspectives) Understand that humans are interdependent and should work toward a just and a sustainable future. (Connections) Click or tap here to enter text.Explain why and how a virtual study abroad format will benefit and appeal to your students.Click or tap here to enter text.A 3-credit virtual study abroad course (like any WMU course) should contain 45 contact hours of instruction (37.5 60-minute hours). One hour of instructional time by the instructor of record or a guest lecturer equals one hour of instructional time in a classroom on campus. Virtual field trips, excursions, and museum visits, etc., if linked to academic content, may count toward total hours at 50%.Provide a general idea how your students will achieve 37.5 sixty-minute contact hours during the study abroad course/program. For example, students might meet with the instructor on Mondays and Wednesdays for 50 minutes throughout the semester to receive formal instruction and participate in virtual activities during other times to reach required course hours. Click or tap here to enter text.List specific strategies or activities you will use to help your students gain a better understanding of and appreciation for the country or world region you incorporate into the course. (Examples might include: instructor’s own lectures that focus on international and comparative perspectives, guest lectures by host country experts, virtual tours of a company or video interaction with employees, a virtual ‘buddy program’ with international students, city tours developed by onsite staff, culinary arts workshops, opportunities for second language acquisition, group presentations by WMU students and the host country, virtual office hours with foreign faculty, etc.)Click or tap here to enter text.List and provide estimated costs for estimated expenses related to guest lecturers, virtual tours and other activities you mentioned in the previous question. Note: The costs will be added to the student program fee.Click or tap here to enter text.Copy and paste a preliminary course syllabus below.Click or tap here to enter text.66675023558500WMU Study Abroad Course/Program ProposalSIGNATURES Name (Printed)SignatureDateFaculty DirectorClick or tap here to enter text.Click or tap to enter a date.Department Chair (approval)Click or tap here to enter text.Dean (approval)Click or tap here to enter text.Department Chair or Dean: Please mark box indicating how the faculty leader will be paid for the course:Summer WMU AAUP rate (paid by department/college)In-load faculty course OtherPlease explain: Signature of Department Chair or Dean (who indicated faculty pay): 681990-163258500 Directions for Submission: Download, complete and save this document.Send to your chair and dean for signatures (last page). Electronic signatures accepted.Chair/Dean returns to applicant.Applicant saves, scans, and emails grant to lee.penyak@wmich.edu ................
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