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260 ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
Teaching Experiences
Students may earn credit for teaching experiences under the supervision of a full-time
faculty sponsor. Activities may include a combination of setting up and/or teaching
laboratories, assisting the instructor in creating or revising a course, collaborating with
the instructor in preparation of examinations and other assignments and in the grading of
these assignments, developing in-class activities, leading or facilitating class discussions,
and preparing and delivering lectures. Teaching experiences are numbered 298, 398, or
498. A maximum of two units counting toward graduation may be earned for teaching
experience. The following registration process and policies apply to teaching experiences,
with the exception of those disciplines which have standardized their teaching
experiences:
(1) To register for a teaching experience, students must complete the Contract Learning
Proposal Form available from the Office of Exploration Term and Contract Learning.
The contract must stipulate the nature of the work to be completed; learning outcomes
specific to the teaching experience; the amount of academic credit (½ or 1 unit) to be
earned by the student; a completed credit hour worksheet; and signatures of the student,
student’s academic advisor, faculty sponsor, and faculty sponsor’s department chair.
(2) Completed proposal forms must be submitted to the Office of Exploration Term and
Contract Learning by the due date published by that office and in any case no later than
the end of the term (fall or spring) prior to the term of the teaching experience.
(3) Once the contract has been approved by the Exploration Term and Contract Learning
Committee, the Office of Exploration Term and Contract Learning will notify the
Registrar who will then register the student for the course. A copy of the contract shall be
held on file by the Office of Exploration Term and Contract Learning.
(4) Teaching experiences may be evaluated with a letter grade or as “S”/“U” at the
discretion of the instructor.
(5) Students earning teaching experience credit shall be designated “Teaching Fellows.”
Foreign Language Across the Curriculum
Birmingham-Southern College offers students opportunities to enhance their foreign
language proficiency and cultural knowledge through coursework in other discipline
areas. The Foreign Language Across the Curriculum (FLAC) program adds a foreign
language component to courses in a variety of fields. Students taking these courses as
FLAC courses receive an additional ¼ unit of credit in the foreign language. Such
courses allow students to make sophisticated use of language skills, provide greater
Birmingham-Southern College Catalog 2023-2024