The Odyssey Program is designed to encourage close collaboration between students and mentors. Therefore, faculty and administrative staff are invited to propose courses, modules attached to courses, co-curricular activities and individual projects for Odyssey credit. In addition, part of the role of the supervisor of an Odyssey project is to lead the student toward thoughtful reflection upon the experience.The pages linked below are designed to help faculty and administrative staff members in their participation in the Odyssey Program. You are strongly encouraged to consult with the Odyssey Office if you have any questions.
Guided Reflections
Assignments for Guided
Reflections
Engaged learning involves the
student drawing overt connections between the hands-on activity and the ideas,
theories, and self-understanding he or she has prior to doing the
activity. This reflection is best when
it is an on-going part of the student’s Odyssey experience. The Odyssey Office therefore encourages
faculty members supervising Odyssey projects to design reflection assignments
that guide the student into ever-deepening reflection over the course of the
experience and that come to culmination in a final reflection piece, written or
oral.
Providing students with guidance
for their reflections while they are away from campus can be challenging. These
resources are made with that situation particularly in mind.
The links found below will take
you to suggested handouts to use in making journal assignments. Faculty members
are welcome to copy and use these handouts exactly as they are to make changes
as they wish. You will find two kinds of handouts:
Generic Journal Reflection Guide—This handout can be used regardless of the
Odyssey category for which the project is designed. It basically provides the
student with a set of directions for doing the “What-So-What-Now What” journal that is
explained in the Odyssey Guide. There are blank spaces where the professor may
want to fill in his or her expectations for the regularity of the journal
entries.
Category-Specific Reflection Guides—Faculty members will find a handout with
questions for guiding reflections for specific Odyssey Categories. Odyssey
supervisors are welcome to revise and use at will; however please note that
questions on each handout have a developmental order. Questions have been designed and ordered
based on experiences with students and what they typically go through over the
course of a summer when doing projects in the specific categories.
While there are no guides for UR
(Undergraduate Research), supervisors may find questions in the PL handouts
helpful in getting students to reflect on what their research experience
reveals about their career or graduate school interests and other broader
vocationally significant commitments.
- Faculty Guide for Course and Module Coding
- Approval Process for Co-curricular Activities
- Odyssey Projects Proposed by Faculty or Staff
- Supervisor Responsibilities
- Guidelines for Faculty Traveling with Students to Present Research
- Faculty Liability Coverage
2020 Odyssey Professorship Application Materials