ECF 211/212/213 ELON COLLEGE FELLOWS SOPHOMORE SEMINAR
This course exposes students to the disciplines that comprise each branch of the arts and sciences. Through theme-based or team-taught seminars, students become familiar with the questions that each discipline addresses, the tools, resources and paradigms used by each field and consider integration across disciplines. The seminar facilitates finding a mentor in preparation for developing the Elon College Fellows research project. Fellows enroll in the section that most closely matches the student's academic major.
Prerequisite
Elon College Fellows status.
Notes
One seminar is required of all sophomore Elon College Fellows.
Course Outcomes
- Be able to discuss intelligently perspectives in [the disciplines of the respected branch of the arts and sciences]
- Be able to ask a variety of discipline-specific questions about a text and a topic
- Be able to distinguish between productive and insightful questions and superficial, proximate ones
- Be familiar with major research approaches and key peer-reviewed journals in each of the disciplines represented; understand how lines of inquiry may intersect and diverge among the disciplines
- Have established a mentoring relationship with a faculty member in the discipline of the student’s intended major