# Teaching Awards

**Source**: https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/teaching-awards
**Parent**: https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/

## [The American Cultures Excellence in Teaching Award](https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/ata)

This award is intended to recognize individual faculty’s 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. Recipients will receive a $2,500 award and be honored at a public award ceremony and permanently indicated as a recipient of the AC Excellence in Teaching Award on the American Cultures website. [Learn More](https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/ata).

## [The Ronald T. Takaki Teaching Award](https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/takaki-teaching-award)

In working with the family of the late Professor Takaki, the American Cultures Teaching Award committee assigns the 'Ronald T. Takaki Teaching Award' to an applicant of the American Cultures Teaching Award that merits special recognition. [Learn More](https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/takaki-teaching-award).