Returning Course(s) for Summer Session
If you are a returning instructor and would like to offer your course for the upcoming summer session, please take the following steps:
- Connect with your Department Chair to confirm you would like to teach this summer.
- Email James Chansky, Associate Dean, Summer Session and Pre-College Programs, or call (401) 863-7905, to confirm you would like to teach.
Upon receiving confirmation from our office that your course will be offered in the upcoming Summer Session, you will be asked to submit your full course proposal in Self Service Banner. Login at https://selfservice.brown.edu or use the Banner Self Service link on the Brown Faculty gateway.
New Course Proposal for Summer Session
Brown University’s Summer Session is a 7 week semester, with 6 weeks of instruction followed by a week for study days and final exams. Courses are offered on-campus and online.
- Summer Session courses are expected to be in every way the equivalent of those offered during the fall and spring semesters, notwithstanding the compressed semester.
- On-Campus courses meet approximately 8 hours per week, typically over three or four days per week, with an expected 16 hours per week of additional time spent out of class.
- Online courses are asynchronous, but require near daily engagement on the part of students, and equivalent to the time spent in and out of a campus-based course, approximately 24 hours per week.
- Summer Session students are comprised mainly of Brown undergraduates and a small number of visiting undergraduates and rising High School seniors in the Pre-Baccalaureate Program.
- All Summer Session course proposals require the approval of the Associate Dean, Summer Session, in coordination with the relevant Department Chair and, in the case of graduate students, their Director of Graduate Studies. All new courses – and instructors who are not voting members of the faculty – are also reviewed by and require the approval of the College Curriculum Committee.
If you are interested in proposing a new course to be taught in the University’s credit-bearing Summer Session, please complete the form below. Deadline for new course proposals is November 1.
Summer Session Credit Courses for Undergraduates
