Features of International Travel/Study Courses offered in Self-Support (CSUN credit courses in Summers Session or Winter Term and noncredit travel/study courses in any term)
- Funding formulas for self-support credit travel/study courses offered in the Summer Session or Winter Term are not designed to provide additional administrative support for individual courses beyond that normally provided for a standard on-campus course. If a department wishes to undertake a travel study program, the planning work (including travel insurance, instructional arrangements, and the like) and management of the course before and during the travel are the responsibility of the department offering the course.
- International travel/study credit courses offered in the Summer Session may be eligible for financial aid if the student in question is a CSUN matriculated student in a state-funded degree program.
- Instructor compensation is in keeping with the approved CSU Special Session Salary code 2357 for Summer Session and 2322 for Winter Term. For payroll purposes, information on the status of the proposed instructor(s) shall be included with the bio and/or CV (i.e., full professor, associate professor, assistant professor, instructor, etc.). Full-time faculty is subject to policies governing extra service compensation for Fall/Spring semester (i.e., the 125% overload limit rule). If a faculty member plans to lead a trip in summer and wishes to be paid extra service, he or she must avoid any other extra service assignments during the Spring Semester to avoid exceeding 125% of load in a single term. Compensation for noncredit courses is not governed by bargained salary schedules and is planned as part of the overall program budget for the offering in question.
- For international travel/study courses to be offered self-support credit or noncredit, the Tseng College will develop a program description based on the proposal material provided. This will be used to announce the course in standard publications for the term in question. Any other marketing to departmental or other CSUN students is the responsibility of the sponsoring department. All such announcements shall be based on the description of the program with costs and registration information as it appears in the official publications for Summer Session, as well as, a detailed estimation of all the costs to the student over and above the course fees.
- The Tseng College will provide all the support services including handling registration for the program.
- The Tseng College will set a registration deadline at least two (2) months before the planned travel. The deadline allows time for the course to reach the minimum enrollment required (15 or greater) before students book travel six (6) weeks in advance of the start date. Students will be able to register, online. . If the course is cancelled, students will be notified and they will be refunded for any travel or registration payments made. If the course reaches the minimum enrollment, students will be notified that they can begin to make travel arrangements. Late registrants can be accepted if the course is at or above the minimum levels by the registration deadline date. NOTE: The registration deadline will also be the deadline for refunds based on unacceptable enrollment levels.
- A self-support travel/study course can have restricted admission if that is a part of the academic plan and approved proposal for the course. In such cases, students will be notified via published and web materials to contact the instructor for a permission number before registering.
- The Tseng College may survey program participants to determine their satisfaction with the program content and travel arrangements. This information will be relevant if the department plans to repeat the same or a similar self-support travel/study course.