Freshman Seminar in Reasoning and Discourse: Written Communication: Exploring Self in Story

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Analyze written texts to understand how they relate to particular audiences, purposes, and contexts as a way to inform one’s own writing.

• Create and revise written texts for particular audiences, purposes, and contexts.

• Through oral or written reflection, demonstrates awareness of one’s writing choices as well as how one’s own writing contributes to ongoing conversations.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Poetic Autoethnography (SLOs 1, 2 & 3)	20%
Memory Studies (SLOs 1, 2 & 3)	20%
Critical Introduction project (SLOs 1, 2 & 3)	20%
Final Portfolio (SLOs 1, 2 & 3)	20%
Active Engagement	20%

Grading Scale:

Percentage	Letter Grade
93-100 points	A
90-92 points	A-
87-89 points	B+
83-86 points	B
80-82 points	B-
77-79 points	C+
73-76 points	C
70-72 points	C-
67-69 points	D+
63-66 points	D
60-62 points	D-
0-59 points	F

Attendance/Participation:

Participation includes active engagement in activities, exercise and informal writing. Participation contributes to the final course grade as outlined above under active engagement.

Students are allowed a maximum of 3 absences without a grade penalty. Each absence over 3 will result in a deduction from your participation grade. After the student’s 8th absence, instructors will hold a mandatory attendance meeting with the student to establish an intervention plan. Students who do not attend the meeting or who do not follow the intervention plan risk failing the course. A student with 10 absences will receive a grade of F for the course.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

no materials are required for purchase