VIU will offer a Summer Session of the Globalization Program in August 2025 and has issued a Call for Lectureships.
Deadline for submission of proposal: February 20, 2025
The first edition of the Summer Session was launched in 2022 with the aim of extending the opportunities to study and teach at VIU. Through this opportunity, VIU also serves the needs of those students who otherwise face barriers to participation during the semester-long programs, due to the structure of their curricula, socioeconomic factors, cultural factors, and personal circumstances.
The Summer Session is also an opportunity for professors who, due to teaching, research, administrative or personal commitments, are otherwise unable to spend a full semester at VIU.
Courses from any discipline can be proposed, including the sciences. The courses must be suitable and open to Bachelor's and Master's students and must take into consideration that VIU students come from different cultural backgrounds (with more than 20 nationalities represented in a semester), and from different academic traditions.
Each course must consist of 40 hours (36 hours of in-class tuition + 4 hours of extra activities). The 36 hours of in-class teaching will be during the 4-week program at the VIU campus - indicatively 9 hours of teaching per week.
A preliminary virtual component should be envisaged and should include at least one online meeting and asynchronous tasks (readings/research/group work) for the students to be completed prior to the in-class program. The virtual component should be scheduled during the month of July.
Professors may consider team teaching solutions, either with colleagues from their own university, or in other VIU member universities.
Download the Call for Lectureships
Download the Virtual Component Recommendations
