They begin keeping journals as tools for reflection. Students use conventional research methods to write a critical review and synthesis, and learn to work respectfully and creatively with others in preparing group reports related to their engineering studies. Students get hands-on experience with integrated assignments and research in both their group proposals for their design project and in the synthesis paper for chemistry. For the literature component, novels are emphasized. The course seeks to enlarge students' understanding of the literary imagination and to introduce some of the conventions of literary discourse.
Students write a literary analysis on a local play production and discuss visual arts.
They also write their final reports on their design projects and rehearse their oral presentations. Humanities and Engineering faculty jointly grade the final presentations. The readings in non-fiction are coordinated with the sciences so that students can more knowledgeably write a synthesis paper for the science component. It is imperative that you attend the lecture to which you are assigned, and that you always list your full name, your instructor's name, and Humanities section number on all wrting samples during lecture. The faculty will team-teach the course for the entire academic year.