Common Core Course Excellence Award

2012 Award
Open for Nomination
Until 4 February 2013

Nomination Form

The Common Core Program provides students with an exciting and excellent opportunity to enrich their undergraduate educational experience. The successful delivery of this program depends on the contribution of faculty, tutors and other members of course teams, together with the full support from their School and Department units, to develop a good collection of common core courses.

The Common Core Course Excellence Award is established to recognize excellent common core courses and the substantial efforts our faculty and instructors have contributed to the development and delivery of these courses.

• Any common core courses offered between January and December 2012 are eligible to be nominated and considered for the 2012 Award.
  
  
• Nominations are made for an individual course. A course offered with multiple sections or taught by a team of instructors will be considered as one nomination.
  
  

• Nomination for the Award may be made by one or more members of the University community: faculty (including the course instructor); staff; students; or alumni.
  
  
• The nomination should have the consent of the course instructional team and it must be endorsed by the Head of the course-offering department/unit. A statement explaining why the course is nominated should be submitted jointly by all nominators or separately by each individual nominator.
  
  
• The nomination must be submitted using the prescribed nomination form.The completed form should be submitted to the Undergraduate Core Education Team, Office of the Provost on or before 4 February 2013.
  
  

• A Selection Committee comprising faculty representatives from the School/IPO and with student and alumni representation will be established to select the award recipients. Faculty members whose course has been nominated for the Award may not serve on the Selection Committee.
  
  
• Courses nominated for the award will be evaluated with regard to three broad criteria: Exemplar of a Good Common Core Course, Design of the Course Syllabus and Assessment Plan, and Course Delivery, Pedagogy and Teaching Innovation. Click here for full details of the criteria.
  
  
• The course instructional team will be asked to present a course dossier to the Selection Committee for consideration. It will include a reflective statement (around 1,500 words or a maximum of 3 pages) exemplifying the achievement of the selection criteria.
  
  

• The Selection Committee will recommend one Award, and if called for, a maximum of three Honorary Mentions to the Committee on Undergraduate Core Education (CUCE) for confirmation. The Award and Honorary Mention will be presented in the name of the Committee on Undergraduate Core Education.
  
  
• The instructional team of the course receiving the Award will receive a certificate, a plaque engraved with the name of the course and the names of the instructional team members, as well as a cash prize of HK$20,000. The instructional team will have discretion in deciding on the use and allocation of this cash prize.
  
  
• The instructional team of the course receiving the Honorary Mention will receive a certificate, a plaque engraved with the name of the course and the names of the instructional team members.
  
  
• The award recipients will be announced in May 2013. The award presentation ceremony will be held in the same month.
  
  

4 February 2013


Inquiry

Ms Angel Li
Undergraduate Core Education Team
Office of the Provost
Tel:    2358 5795
Email: ucoreaward@ust.hk