The department values the quality of teaching highly and considers it to be a vital ingredient in the educational experience. It is the responsibility of the Associate Head for Instructional and Graduate Affairs to ensure that faculty are aware of their roles and responsibilities in this regard and to provide input regarding their teaching in the performance evaluation process. The following is intended to provide specifically information on the departmental norms and expectations for instruction. We describe what we expect of our faculty in each of these categories in the following. These courses are generally run in several sections, coordinated by a course director.
Exceptions are large, single, team-taught sections.
Because of the need for coordination and satisfying the prerequisite coverage of material for follow-on elective courses, the individual instructors have, understandably, less freedom as compared to other courses. These courses are generally taught in a single section and therefore provide a greater degree of freedom for the instructor. Instructor's own contribution, that is, how much is taught from someone else's already existing text or other material, and how much is own material. These activities, if significant, are generally unique to the individuals. C. Undergraduate Advising Each of our faculty members are routinely assigned a group of undergraduate students for advising.