COURSE Description
INTD 100: College Writing Seminar (INTD 100) introduces students to the intellectual life of the university by exploring the intersection of who we are as individuals and who we are as communities. The course engages the critical tension between individual rights and social responsibilities as that tension manifests in issues such as identity, equality, and sustainability, among others.
INTD 100 is a shared intellectual experience, incorporating materials from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Students meet in small sections to discuss the readings and issues and develop their reading, writing, and critical thinking skills.
INTD 100: COLLEGE WRITING SEMINAR develops skills students will need to succeed in any field of study at the University and beyond. The course represents an introduction to general education in the best sense of the term: education for self-‐examination and engaged citizenship. Such grounding will help students develop the agency and flexibility necessary to navigate a rapidly changing political, social, and economic environment.
COURSE Overview
To further explore these ideas, students will be required to write a series of short essays and reflections, but also in groups write and make a short documentary or narrative film based on One Word that offers an answer to the question: “If you could define your idea of a good society and happiness, what would it be?” Or the reverse, “What do you see happening in the world that stands in the way of this happiness—and what must be done to change it?”
STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES
In INTD 100: COLLEGE WRITING SEMINAR, students will work to become stronger:
• Writers—able to write concisely and cogently for a given audience.
• Critical thinkers—sharp, nimble, inclined to search for evidence, and skilled at appraising it.
• Readers—able to reflect upon and apply an author’s main and supporting ideas and perspective.
Students will engage the following university learning objectives in INTD 100: COLLEGE WRITING SEMINAR: Critical and creative thinking, communication, and sustainability.
INTD 100: College Writing Seminar (INTD 100) introduces students to the intellectual life of the university by exploring the intersection of who we are as individuals and who we are as communities. The course engages the critical tension between individual rights and social responsibilities as that tension manifests in issues such as identity, equality, and sustainability, among others.
INTD 100 is a shared intellectual experience, incorporating materials from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Students meet in small sections to discuss the readings and issues and develop their reading, writing, and critical thinking skills.
INTD 100: COLLEGE WRITING SEMINAR develops skills students will need to succeed in any field of study at the University and beyond. The course represents an introduction to general education in the best sense of the term: education for self-‐examination and engaged citizenship. Such grounding will help students develop the agency and flexibility necessary to navigate a rapidly changing political, social, and economic environment.
COURSE Overview
To further explore these ideas, students will be required to write a series of short essays and reflections, but also in groups write and make a short documentary or narrative film based on One Word that offers an answer to the question: “If you could define your idea of a good society and happiness, what would it be?” Or the reverse, “What do you see happening in the world that stands in the way of this happiness—and what must be done to change it?”
STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES
In INTD 100: COLLEGE WRITING SEMINAR, students will work to become stronger:
• Writers—able to write concisely and cogently for a given audience.
• Critical thinkers—sharp, nimble, inclined to search for evidence, and skilled at appraising it.
• Readers—able to reflect upon and apply an author’s main and supporting ideas and perspective.
Students will engage the following university learning objectives in INTD 100: COLLEGE WRITING SEMINAR: Critical and creative thinking, communication, and sustainability.
- Teacher: Patti McCarthy