Literature Seminar

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Learn to develop a research topic for presentation
• Learn to examine the literature and critically evaluate data around the research topic, particularly with an eye for what should be presented
• Learn how to write an abstract of a scientific seminar on the topic
• Learn how to present the scientific seminar, including the ability to field questions from an audience of faculty and peers.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
The written abstract	25%
The seminar presentation	50%
Your participation, attendance, and attitude	25%

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
100 to 93%	A
92 to 90%	A-
89 to 88%	B+
87 to 79%	B
78 to 77%	B-
76 to 75%	C+
74 to 69%	C
68 to 0%	F

Attendance/Participation:

Attendance is absolutely required in this course. If you miss a seminar, you will be required to make it up by attending another seminar. This can be in any department at or even seminars in the evening of a scientific topic. You will have to send me a digest of the seminar you attend, as well.

If attendance is not made up, then your final grade will be lowered by at least one full letter grade.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

No course materials are required.