Sophomore Year IC201 Foundations of Mathematics 3 credits This course is designed to promote critical thinking by helping students state problems clearly, sort out the relevant from the irrelevant, abstract common properties from individual situations, and argue coherently. Students are exposed to good reasoning processes through an introduction to mathematical concepts. This course provides students with an opportunity to review the contents of their portfolios and to reflect in a general way on their own educational experience and goals. Utilizing their portfolios, and informed by readings on such topics as learning style, critical and creative thinking, and cognitive development, students conduct a systematic self-assessment of their academic work within the Integrated Curriculum and their progress toward achieving the Goals of Franklin Pierce College Student Experience. They also complete a final project that builds on the results of this assessment to chart a course for their future academic and personal development.
Class meetings take place twice weekly for four weeks.
This is an experiential course that draws on the creativity of each student and provides the tools to describe, interpret, and evaluate a work of art for the purpose of making the arts an essential part of students' lives. Attendance at performances, master classes and talks both on and off campus will be required. Courses with an asterisk feature a weekly common session during which lectures, films and panel discussions provide a background and context for that week's topic and texts. Students also meet twice each week in smaller discussion groups organized around the principle of active learning and featuring collaborative projects along with a variety of individual oral and written projects. Experiencing the Arts introduces students to a wide variety of cultural activities and events as part of the course.