CLA 1001, Learning Community Integrative Seminar
Section 3--Fall 2008
University of Minnesota, Duluth
1 credit
| Instructor: Bruce Mork | Office: Cina 104C | Office hours: 9:30-10.30, MWF |
| Phone: 726-6369 | E-mail: bmork@d.umn.edu | Teaching assistant: Angie Heilman (heilm023) |
This seminar meets for eight weeks Tuesday and Thursday from 12.00 to 12.50 in MontH 108, beginning September 2, with two follow-up meetings later in the semester. We may also plan some activities outside class time, but they will be optional.
Text: None
Course Objectives:
1. To facilitate your successful transition to college learning at UMD.
2. To foster friendship and mutual support in a learning community (beginning with learning each other's names) .
3. To share with each other your discoveries about the college and the community.
4. To understand the student role from a sociological perspective (after all, your instructor is a sociologist, so you can't avoid that).
5. To promote effective study skills.
6. To help you initiate a process that will lead to a well-considered choice of major and eventually of career.
7. To examine the role of the liberal arts in terms of your development as a person and a citizen, as well as how they relate to work and career.
8. You tell me what else you'd like from this course.
Course Description: This course meets twice a week, Tuesdays with your instructor and your ta and Thursdays with with your teaching assistant. Those in attendance are part of a freshman learning community, meaning that they are enrolled in a series of shared courses with other members. The purpose of the course is to facilitate a successful adaptation to college life at UMD and prepare students to make good decisions as they proceed with their college careers.
Grading: Your grade will reflect your attendance as well as your successful completion of projects. . Attendance will be taken at all sessions and if you miss more than two sessions, your grade will go down one step for each absence after that(from A to A-, or A- to B+, etc.). . Assignments that you do for the ta-led sessions will also count toward your grade.
Assignment |
Points |
Due date |
| Attendance: 2 points per session | 36 points | |
| Class participation in Thursday sessions | 20 points | |
| Personal style inventory | 10 points | |
| Reaction paper: small groups | 10 points | |
| Items may be added as Angie and I confer about the course | ||
| Majors/careers assignment | 40 points | |
| 6 Thursday assignments | 30 points | |
| Totals |
Grading standards : A, 93-100; A-, 90-92; B+, 87-89; B, 83-87; B-, 80-82; C+, 77-79; C, 73-77; C-, 70-72; D+, 67-69; D, 63-67; D-, 60-62; F, below 60.
Extra Credit: To be announced
SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS/FACILITIES: If you have a physical or cultural condition, either permanent or temporary, which you believe makes it difficult for you to participate in and/or complete the requirements of this course in the time and manner prescribed, please let me know by the end of the first week of instruction. Adaptation of methods, materials, or testing may be made as required. It is your responsibility to contact Disability Services and Resources for advice regarding adaptations. (This is also a chance for me to make a pitch for Disability Services and Resources, located on the second floor of Kirby Student Center.)