Arnhold Summer Courses are an opportunity to develop innovative, team-taught, 5 or 8 unit interdisciplinary courses. Faculty receive summer sessions salary, a stipend for course development, TA support (with TA stipends), and funding for course activities. Each course is taught by at least two instructors, one of whom must be affiliated with a Humanities and Fine Arts (HFA) department or program. They focus on an issue from multiple perspectives and explicitly include innovative, engaged learning. 

If accepted, each instructor of record teaching an Arnhold Summer Course receives $7000 in stipend or research/professional development funding. TAs for all Arnhold Summer Courses receive a stipend of $1,500 in addition to summer sessions pay to recognize the additional work of course preparation and student supervision involved. Instructors also receive enrichment funds for visiting speakers, field trips, and project supplies.
 

Examples of past and current Summer Courses:

  • Memory: An Interdisciplinary Exploration - Ken Kosik (MCDB), Kim Yasuda (Art) and Cristina Pato (Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Art [now Music])
  • Experiencing Shakespeare - Irwin Appel (Theater) and Jim Kearney (English)
  • Utopian Dreaming: History, Science Fiction, and Isla Vista - Brad Bouley (History) and Patrick McHugh (Writing Program)
  • Religion and Technology - Joe Blankholm and Dominic Steveau (Religious Studies)
  • The History of Disease and Epidemiology - Brad Bouley (History) and John Latto (EEMB)
  • Creative Climate Communications - Amanda Stansell (Writing) and Alexandra Phillips (Bren)
  • Storytelling with Time: Rhetorical and Creative Considerations - Kara Mae Brown (Writing; College of Creative Studies) and Victoria Houser (Writing)
  • Visual Storytelling and the Museum - Michelle Grue Petty (Writing and College of Creative Studies) and Iman Djouini (Art and College of Creative Studies)

Timeline

Course proposals are solicited in the Fall each year for the following Summer.

For more information or to consult on course ideas, please contact Dr. Nicole Strobel (nstrobel@ucsb.edu).