About
The ‘AC Teaching Award’ is intended to recognize individual faculty members ’ exemplary teaching in the American Cultures curriculum. Instructors are recognized for their inspiring and sustained commitment to creating a learning space able to hold the multiple challenges and opportunities that teaching AC content requires. Such challenges and opportunities include the multivocality of America’s diverse social fabric; the scales of geographic assemblage which support political and economical ways of being; the often contested nature of the political nation; the intersectional vectors which operate through everyday life (e.g., class, gender, sexuality, religious affiliation, ability, and legal status) and the reality that differences do, as they always have, provide a rough terrain of understanding for our abilities to listen and communicate with each other. Great creativity, ingenuity, and courage are required to meet this rich environment, providing inspiration and guidance for colleagues across the campus. The AC Teaching Award recognizes this signature effort.
Recipients will receive a $2,500 award and be honored at a public award ceremony and permanently indicated as a recipient of the AC Teaching Award on the American Cultures website.
Eligibility
Faculty must have taught at least one AC course within the last two years. All Academic Senate members, non-Senate faculty, and primary instructors of an AC course are eligible for this award. Graduate Student Instructors who teach a discussion section of an AC course are not eligible. Previous recipients of the teaching award are also not eligible to receive the award again. For a list of previous recipients, please visit this page. If you have any questions, please visit our FAQ page or email americancultures@berkeley.edu.
Criteria
The award committee seeks candidates who encourage and empower critical and multivocal dialogue, foster a respectful learning environment, support student engagement, and demonstrate originality in the design of course content, Creativity in the development of assignments.