We have the unique challenge of facilitating the goals of our departments, respectively, while also facilitating the goals of the Core Curriculum and the University. Transformed Students are immersed in the study of political science and their immediate roles as citizens, and as a result they are enthusiastic and engaged. The content heard and studied in large lecture is actually experienced in the joint conversations in First Year Seminar and in First Year Composition.
Students learn how their voices can activate change, and are transformed.
Their experience will not end. They will continue to seek an active role in their communities and understand how language and the writer's power of maneuvering through written language for an audience and a purpose can have tremendous consequences. Joint Reading Assignments 5-7 articles were selected based upon large lecture content and agreed upon by both instructors to be read synchronously in Seminar and Composition. The Ethical Treatment of Animals, Corporations and Cancer Research, Corporate Welfare, Soft Money, The World Trade Organization. A Web Site was created.