GS 1010H - Honors Seminar I

• Write unified, coherent, emphatic, and well-organized essays that include a clear thesis and, in some form, an introduction, a body, and a conclusion
• Understand basic rhetorical concepts, including ethos, pathos, and logos
• Work with sources at the college level. This includes discerning quality of sources, identifying which sources are more authoritative within a given rhetorical context, avoiding plagiarism and copyright infringement through awareness of ethical and legal constraints, and incorporating sources appropriately and effectively in students’ own writing
• Understand the concept of a “city” and become aware of issues specific to that concept
• Develop awareness of social responsibility and interpret personal experience through a service-learning project
• Become aware of ethical issues specific to human interactions within the framework of a city
• Develop the capacity for independent thought through self-selection of paper topics, service-learning experience, and selected readings

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• Rhetorical concepts and writing instruction (8 classes)
• Research methods (1 class)
• Evaluation, documentation, and incorporation of sources (1 class)
• Research/writing workshops (5 classes)
• Lectures, classroom activities/discussions, and field trips exploring the concept of “The City” (10 classes)
• Class discussion of assigned readings from course texts (5 classes)
• Service learning (2 classes)
• Lecture on art terms, class discussion/analysis of art in class (2 classes)
• Museum tour, student analysis and presentations on art works (2 classes)
• Student presentations of research projects (4 classes)