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SECTION 5
TEACHING LOADS
The basic teaching load at
Southeastern is the equivalent of 15 hours of lecture per week
during a regular academic term (Faculty Handbook, p. 46). The
College of Education and Human Development’s basic teaching load
during a regular term is the equivalent of 15 hours of lecture per
week for a full time instructor and 12 hours of lecture per week
for a tenure track faculty member. Visiting professors with proper
credentials will teach 12 hours per week. A full-time faculty
member teaching a graduate course in the regular term will
normally receive a one-course reduction in assignment and will,
therefore, have a load of 9 hours of lecture per week. Full-time
doctoral faculty members are awarded a one course reduction in
assignment for supervising doctoral theses and monitoring students
in the field plus a three hour release time to pursue scholarly
research, and, therefore, will have a teaching load of 6 hours of
lecture a week. Certain courses carry a 400/500 level number
assignment, and the following stipulation will govern their
utilization as part of a teaching load: Dual numbered classes
having 8 or more graduate students enrolled in the graduate course
will count as a graduate course for load computation. Reductions
in teaching loads may be made for committee and administrative
assignments and scholarly activities. As part of their regular
duties, faculty members will provide supervision of student
teachers and of practicum and intern students in both
undergraduate and graduate programs. Normally, the supervision of
four to six student teachers carries a three-hour credit
equivalency.
Faculty members may be granted
“reassigned time” projects within their teaching load. The
“reassigned time” project must be developed in cooperation with
and approved by the academic department head and Dean. A
three-hour reassigned time project for faculty carries an
expectancy of increased emphasis by the faculty member in
professional activity, teaching, service, or administrative
activity.
Faculty will occasionally have
an opportunity to teach courses as an overload assignment. The
expectancy is that such courses will be off the main campus and
will be provided as a part of the College of Education’s mission
of outreach and public service to the service region. Faculty
overloads should be minimized by department heads in schedule
planning.
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