Undergraduate Student Initiated Education (USIE) is an innovative program designed to provide a select group of juniors and seniors in the College with the opportunity to develop and facilitate, under close faculty supervision, a lower division seminar for their peers. The application and selection period is during the fall quarter. During the winter quarter, selected facilitators will work closely with their faculty sponsors through a two-unit independent study focused on the content-area of their proposed course, and will participate in a two-unit pedagogy seminar with other student facilitators. Through the independent study and the pedagogy seminar, student facilitators will develop for review and approval a formal syllabus for their spring seminars. Mentorship with the faculty sponsors will continue during the spring quarter as the students facilitate their seminars.

The application deadline for this year's program is Friday, November 9, 2007, at 5 P.M.

Please click on a link below to learn more about the process and requirements for students and faculty mentors.

Videos: Student Impressions -- participating in USIE

For student reflections on the USIE Program, please click on the link:
  » http://www.usieseminars.org/