Collaborative Research Seminars (CRS) are designed to direct Berkeley’s unique intellectual resources toward large, cross-disciplinary topics, to encourage collaborative work among faculty and advanced graduate students, and to offer faculty the unique opportunity to engage in a large-scale team teaching effort at the advanced level.
After a Collaborative Research Seminar is chosen in Stage 1, four faculty are selected in Stage 2 to participate in the CRS as “coconveners” who will share responsibility for development of the curriculum, facilitation of the seminar, and direction of student research in relation to the course.
All ladder-rank faculty at UC Berkeley are eligible to apply.
Departments whose faculty will coteach the seminars will count participation as the equivalent of one graduate level course. (They may do this by assigning the faculty member to a 298, 299, or other suitable course number, according to departmental and decanal policies.)
The seminars will be team-taught by a group of six faculty, including the two conveners. Enrollment will be open to graduate students in the third year of study or beyond, to form a total seminar of approximately 18 participants, faculty and students combined. Student enrollments will be apportioned to the departments of participating faculty, or to their home departments in the case that their department is not represented among the faculty team.