By the end of the course, you should be much more knowledgeable about organ transplantation and the people involved in it. You will have conducted and transcribed an oral history interview with someone involved in lung transplantation, and be thoughtful about the process of doing oral history. Every Elon student is required to take an upper-level interdisciplinary seminar. They are expected to carefully do all the work, come to class all the time, participate fully in our frequent class discussions, and in general think, reflect, question, and learn in a mature fashion. In a seminar, we're all teammates in learning.
Seminars also imply the doing of research.
It will be the capstone project of the course, what we're all working toward doing well. In this course, there will be a variety of types of writing. One type is regular response to the readings, which helps you prepare for class and our exams. Another is a personal, less structured type of reflection. There will also be the formal writing of essays for the three exams.