09:45 A.M. - 11:00 A.M., Tu,Th (09/02/2008 - 12/10/2008),

ShevH 110, TCEASTBANK, 3 credits

Instructor: Mary R. T. Kennedy

Grading basis/credits: S-N only, 3 credit(s)

Prereq: Jr or sr CDis or SLHS major

Liberal Educ. Reqs: Meets CLE req of Writing Intensive

Description: This course is a workshop wherein you will write your Senior Paper, as required by the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. The primary goals of this course are to guide you through the process of writing in SLHS, while experiencing the relevance and importance of the topic you have chosen. This is a writing intensive course and as such, you will complete your ?senior? project paper. Our philosophy is that all writers, no matter how experienced, benefit from the content covered in this course. We have broken down the task of writing into manageable steps that should prove helpful to your senior project and all future writing endeavors. What you write about will be reflective of your work for this course. There are two very different kinds of activities over the course of the semester: 1) Select a relevant topic for scientific inquiry, and review and critique the research literature in a paper. 2) Partner with a community organization in a service learning (SL) experience during the semester. Therefore, you will engage in two types of writing: technical, scientific writing and reflective writing.

Class Time: 20% Lecture, 30% Discussion, 30% Small Group Activities, 20% Service Learning.

Work Load: 4 pages reading per week, 30 pages writing per term, 0 exams, 3 papers, 7 homework assignments. The typical student will write two to three drafts of the senior paper, and write 6 journal entries about service learning experiences. There are numerous in-class writing activities.

Grade: 60% reports/papers, 10% journal, 10% class participation. 20% based on meeting the service learning requirements