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11.2. Faculty Duties, Responsibilities and Prohibited Acts
(For more details, refer to DU Internal Bylaws and Personnel Bylaws.)
11.2.1. Academic Staff and Supporting Academic Staff (DU Internal Bylaws Article 1)
The Academic Staff is comprised of:
1) Professors
2) Associate Professors
3) Assistant Professors
4) Lecturers
5) Instructors
6) Visiting Professors
The Supporting Academic Staff is comprised of:
1) Associate Researchers
2) Assistant Researchers
3) Lab Instructors
4) Lab Technicians
(Hereafter, Academic Staff and Supporting Academic Staff are referred to as Faculty.)
11.2.2. Duties of Faculty
The duties of a faculty member include but not limited to :
1) Ensuring that all theoretical and practical teaching activities lead to measurable learning
achievements by students according to previously specified learning outcome.
2) Preparing and presenting a Course Syllabus to the students and to the administration at the
beginning of the semester describing the course and clearly demonstrating the course plan,
objectives, the expected learning outcomes, schedule of study, assignments, methods of
study, method of learning evaluation and reading material.
3) The course syllabus should clearly include the assessment criteria that will be used for
evaluating learning by students and the weighting of each component of students’ output
in determining the final grade in the course.
4) Producing materials such as handouts and computerized/traditional presentations to
organize the learning activities.
5) Providing adequate time slots for office hours during which they should be able to meet
students in their office throughout the semester in addition to the regular class time. The
office hours should be included in the syllabus, posted outside the office of the academic
staff member, and in a central place in the department.
6) Selecting the appropriate method of discussing the subject being taught with care to avoid
controversial matters that have no relation to that subject .
7) Using multi-media materials, computerized and traditional, to demonstrate concepts and
procedures whenever needed .
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