{"id":137,"date":"2014-10-24T19:19:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T23:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/?page_id=137"},"modified":"2024-08-21T14:49:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T18:49:47","slug":"faculty-resources-for-purposeful-work-infusion-courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/infusion-2\/faculty-resources-for-purposeful-work-infusion-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Resources for Purposeful Work Infusion Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Benefits to faculty members:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The opportunity to view your course through a fresh lens, potentially enhancing discussion and student engagement<\/li>\n<li>The chance to engage in lively\u00a0discussions about pedagogy with peers<\/li>\n<li>Financial support for bringing a guest speaker* to campus (modest travel expenses and a $100 honorarium, or $50 honorarium for virtual class visit)\n<ul>\n<li><em>*Multiple guest speakers may be accommodated, depending on budget utilization<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Addition\u00a0of the course attribute \u201cPurposeful Work\u201d\u00a0to your class listing in the Garnet Gateway<\/li>\n<li>Access to a Lyceum page for faculty resources to give you ideas for course elements, readings, writing prompts, etc.<\/li>\n<li>The opportunity to shape an important programmatic element of Purposeful Work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Participation Components:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Include the following in class:\n<ul>\n<li>Presentation of course material (guest speaker, class debate, round table discussion, class activity, as you see fit) through a lens that actively considers questions such as:\n<ul>\n<li>What is &#8220;work&#8221; and how does it shape ourselves, our society, and other facets of our\u00a0world? How do we, in turn, shape work?<\/li>\n<li>How do we each form a sense of ourselves and our desired path?<\/li>\n<li>What are the components of a life well lived?<\/li>\n<li>How have others made an impact about which they feel pride?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>One assigned reading that connects \u201cwork\u201d (broadly defined) to the academic content of the course<\/li>\n<li>One required structured writing assignment in which students reflect on the convergence between their own \u201cwork\u201d and their course content, drawing on readings and\/or discussions. (Grading of this paper is optional.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Attend infusion faculty cohort lunches\/meetings about pedagogy, at the start of the semester and mid-semester.\n<ul>\n<li>These meetings are held over lunch or late afternoon refreshments, and multiple time options are offered to accommodate varying schedules.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Consider allowing an online assessment of the Infusion Project components to be sent to members of your class at the end of the semester.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Questions? Contact Marianne Cowan (mcowan) in the Center for Purposeful Work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benefits to faculty members: The opportunity to view your course through a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":1434,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-137","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23736,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137\/revisions\/23736"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}