SYLLABUS - iNTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES SENIOR SEMINAR
PURPOSE AND STRUCTURE :
This course is designed to help students prepare an advisor approved proposal for the senior project required of all Interdisciplinary Studies majors and to develop preliminary annotated bibliograhpies and webographyies of the sources they will use in doing their senior projects. In addition, students will develop a plan for a web site that presents their senior project in formats appropriate to their particular project. The purpose of this requirement is to enable sharing students' work with other IS majors and advisors, and with the broader community of knowers that seek understandings by using interdisciplinary approaches and the world wide web.
Students will be required to attend weekly sessions of 100 minutes in a computer laboratory and will be assisted by the instructor in all aspects of the development of their project web sites. Typically the first portion of a seminar meeting will involve presentation of new material, the second half will be used for individual consultations. Individual working sessions with the instructor can also be scheduled outside of class sessions.
REQUIRED WORK PRODUCTS
A. An annotated bibliography of at least five (5) items related to the students' proposed projects.
B. An annotated webography of at least five (5) items related to the students' proposed projects.
C. A completed, advisor approved, proposal following the format outlined in the CONTRACT FOR SENIOR PROJECT IN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
D. A preliminary structure for a web site that will present each student's work. The "draft" website will contain, at minimum four web pages - a project title page; a page describing project objectives, methods for achieving objectives, and proposed procedures for evaluation; a page of annotated bibliography; and a page of annotated webography.
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