Information for Faculty
How can I participate in BFS?
Faculty participate in BFS as teachers, mentors, and advisors. Faculty provide BFS's intellectual leadership through the BFS Faculty Council by teaching BFS seminars and advising students throughout their academic careers. The inspiration, guidance, and encouragement faculty provide are central pillars of the BFS experience.
Faculty wishing to become involved in BFS should contact the BFS Faculty Director to discuss teaching a BFS seminar or other avenues of engagement.
BFS Seminar Guidelines for Faculty
BFS Seminars are characterized as:
- Small classes, typically 20 students or fewer (a third of the seats in BFS seminars are reserved for program participants)
- Recurrent, the expectation is that the course will be taught more than once
- Intellectually challenging
- Academically rigorous
- Accessible to non-specialists
- Close engagement with faculty
- Independent thinking
- Experiential Learning
- Promotion and stimulation of research
Instructions for Faculty to propose a new BFS seminar
When proposing a new BFS Seminar, faculty should complete an application on CURF's SurveyMonkey Apply Application Portal. Please be sure to have the information listed ready:
- Course name
- Instructor
- Primary department sponsoring the course
- Course number
- Department administrator
- Estimated size of the course
- Syllabus
- One paragraph course description