PROPOSED OBJECTIVES AND EVIDENCE OF COMPLETION (Long Form)

Approved changes from the original application are presented in red.  For convenient links to the required evidence, see the 'short form' (linked here)

(The Sabbatical Leave Committee will utilize this information as the basis for scoring Rubrics 5 and 6)

Identify specific objectives and describe in detail the evidence that will accompany your report, which indicates that you have met each objective.  The product of your approved sabbatical leave program will be subject to review by the Sabbatical Leave Committee at the time of making your final report.  Examples follow:

Institutional study

Objective:            9 units ((18  16 ECTS*) of graduate level political science/history courses as indicated on Form A will be taken at l’Université Libre de Bruxelles – and/or its Dutch sister school, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). *   and  40 hours of Open University coursework:

Introducing philosophy (8 hrs)
Rights and justice in international relations (13 hrs)
Two concepts of freedom (20 hrs)

*European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) is a standard for comparing the study attainment and performance of students of higher education across the European Union and other collaborating European countries. For successfully completed studies, ECTS credits are awarded. One academic year corresponds to 60 ECTS-credits. ECTS are referred to as “studiepunten” in the Dutch system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Credit_Transfer_and_Accumulation_System. 

Evidence:            For the Institutional Study Semester: I will provide a transcript from the University,  or Attendance Verification letter signed by the Instructor, class notes, and a syllabus for an offering of Pol Sci 240, Political Theory.

Open University Evidence:

·      An outline of course content

·      My notes on course lecture material.

·      For each of the course taken, a 500 word review of the readings, lectures and my evaluation of the topics presented in the course.

Travel

Objective:            Directed Visitation of five selected national capitals.

The proposed objective is to observe the institutions of several of the societies about which I teach for the purpose of collecting examples that can be used to illuminate for students the ways in which culture expresses itself in social and economic life and then how those cultural values shape government and politics in those places

Evidence:  For the Travel Semester I will produce three journals.

1)    Preparation Week Journal: For each of the five countries, each Preparation Week activity (6 x 5, 30 total) will be discussed in a journal entry of no less than 250 words.  The Prep Week Journal will total a minimum of not less than 7,500 words.  This journal will provide evidence of my preparation for each visit. It will provide a daily commentary of the local news of the day, impressions of films seen and a summary of the books read. 

2)    Travel Journal: A second Journal will record my observations, which result from the completion of the eighteen distinct travel activities in each country. Each of these activities (17 x 5, 85 total) will be discussed in a journal entry of no less than 250 words.  The Travel Journal will total a minimum of not less than 21,250 words. 

3)    Photo Journal:  Supplementing the Travel Journal, at each site, I will take pictures of those sites and of their artifacts for use as visuals in class and to be presented in an electronic Photo Journal.  On return, these records will be reproduced and presented to students as a reader and as a model for their own observations and analysis, presented as a class assignment.