IDS 2931: Honors Flagler Scholar Seminar I
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Syllabus
The Flagler Scholar Seminars are intended to fit into the
special design of the
The Flagler Scholar Seminars (IDS 2931 and IDS 4931) are
designed to offer students in the Flagler Scholarship Program integrated,
interdisciplinary study providing meaningful coherence for their courses of
study. The organizing ideals of the Flagler Program—leadership, courage, vigor,
integrity, scholarship—will be key themes in the study of course materials. In
this sample sequence of the Flagler Scholar Seminars, you will explore the life
experiences and philosophies of individuals who have distinguished themselves
in the annals of education and of those who have become extraordinary authors
living outside of established educational norms. In IDS 2932 you will
concentrate on educational biography,
autobiography, and related issues, in
order to envision your own educational paths in light of those who have blazed
the trails of learning before you. Each of you will write a series of essays in
response to course materials, culminating in your own work in progress: an
educational autobiography.
This course will be conducted mostly by discussion. Our talks together will focus on educational biography and autobiography, in light of the readings and of our own life-experiences. In each semester you will be required to write a series of critical and personal essays in response to the aforementioned texts and films. You will be expected to participate in weekly, one-hour seminar discussions of the texts. Additional time may be assigned for viewing films, going to lectures, and taking field trips outside of normal class hours. The key assignment for this term requires each of you to compose a chapter in her or his educational autobiography. You will be asked to integrate your own personal histories, including your formal education, extracurricular experiences (like Outward Bound), as well as your family and social lives into a coherent narrative representing your individual development as an educated person. This will necessarily be a work in progress, as you will be expected to carry it forward beyond the temporal limits of the class, and in some cases perhaps to publication. The principal function of this assignment in terms of the Flagler Scholarship Program is to ask you to shape your educational histories before and throughout your college career into a meaningful whole.
Students enrolled in
this course agree to abide by the Honors College Honor Code. Please review this important document: http://www.fau.edu/divdept/honcol/students/honorcode.html.
Specific
Assignments:
1) A series essays (critical or personal) in response to the assigned texts, typically 300-500 words in length: 50% of final grade.
2) A 1,500 word installment of an educational autobiography, to be completed by the end of the term and shaped by study of the assigned texts in light of personal experience: 25% of final grade.
3) Participation in seminar discussions and activities (in-class writing, attendance at films, field trips, attendance at speakers’ engagements, concerts, and so on): 25% of final grade.
Semester I
Required Texts
listed in the order assigned for the semester:
Film: Nova: Secret of Photo 51: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/photo51/
1) Author: Douglas, Frederick
Title:
My Bondage and My Freedom
Publisher:
Penguin
ISBN:
0-14-043918-8
2) Author: Adams, Henry
Title: The Education of Henry Adams
Publisher:
ISBN: 0192823698
3) Author: Watson, J.
Title: The Double Helix
Publisher: Touchstone
Books
ISBN: 074321630X
4) Author: Maddox, Brenda
Title: Rosalind Franklin: the Dark Lady of DNA
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0060985089
5) Author: Harris, Muriel
Title:
Writer's FAQ's, A Pocket Handbook, 2/e
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
0-13-183125-9