ECF 2110/2120/2130 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.

Credits

2 sh

Prerequisite

Elon College Fellows status.

Offered

  • Fall

Notes

One seminar is required of all sophomore Elon College Fellows.

Course Outcomes

  1. Be able to discuss intelligently perspectives in [the disciplines of the respected branch of the arts and sciences]
  2. Be able to ask a variety of discipline-specific questions about a text and a topic
  3. Be able to distinguish between productive and insightful questions and superficial, proximate ones
  4. 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
  5. Have established a mentoring relationship with a faculty member in the discipline of the student’s intended major

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