ICS 490 - Senior Seminar

Fall 2004

Dr. Kathleen Ward, MFB 206

Description:  The senior seminar is designed to give you a culminating research and writing experience.  We expect you to base your project on a previous effort (a paper written or research begun in another ICS course), now to be refined and expanded, in depth more than breadth.  Thus, we see your seminar experience as one of developing rather than formulating a research premise.  We anticipate your final paper will be worthy of conference presentation.

Organization:  We will cover a range of topics that will help you focus your research, conduct bibliographic research, prepare a formal proposal, conduct ethnographic research (the general approach to ethnography is also useful in literary and media analyses), give and receive peer criticism, and refine your prose.  While you will work independently a great deal, you will be given a strict outline of due dates for specific activities, and you will work closely with a faculty advisor to whom you will be assigned.  This advisor must stay abreast of your work at each stage, give you feed back that you integrate into your work, and sign off on each assignment.

Outline:  The day-by-day outline of the course and due dates for assignments are presented below.  The beginning and end of the semester will be rather full with classroom activities and presentations.  Because we will meet only one day per week, it is essential that you attend each session.  Each session will be structured like a workshop.  Bullet items in italics indicate the assignment due on that date (I will be a stickler with these dates so you are best advised to meet the deadline).  The oral presentation and the final paper will determine the majority of your grade, with the paper receiving the greater weight. The incremental assignments throughout the semester and your attendance and involvement in presentation discussions will also be figured in your grade.  I will meet with your advisor to discuss your paper and presentation and to determine your final grade.

Special Needs

Brigham Young University-Hawai'i is committed to providing a working and learning atmosphere, which reasonably accommodates qualified persons with disabilities.  If you have any disability that may impair your ability to complete this course successfully, please contact the students with Special Need Coordinator, Leilani A'una at 293-3518. Reasonable academic accommodations are reviewed for all students who have qualified documented disabilities.  If you need assistance or if you feel you have been unlawfully discriminated against on the basis of disability, you may seek resolution through established grievance policy and procedures.  You should contact the Human Resource Services at 780-8875.

Preventing Sexual Harassment

Title IX of the education amendments of 1972 prohibits sex discrimination against any participant in an educational program or activity that receives federal funds, including Federal loans and grants.  Title IX also covers student-to-student sexual harassment.  If you encounter unlawful sexual harassment or gender-based discrimination, please contact the Human Resource Services at 780-8875 (24 hours).

7 January - Session I

·      Introduction

• Focusing on a topic (select topic and write out preliminary research questions)  
• Writing a formal proposal with annotated bibliography  

14 January – Session II

• Come with Formal proposal.
• Come with three annotated bibliographic references.
• Primary and Secondary Sources, selection and analysis (Dr. Chen)
• Oral Paper Proposals (2 minutes each)

21 January – Session III

• Come with three annotated primary bibliographic references.
• Ethnographic Research Methods (Dr. Stanton and Dr. McArthur)

28 January – Session IV

·      Come with signed-off proposal.

·     Oral progress reports to class

• Academic and Personal Voice in Writing

4 February – Session V

·      Creating an outline (Dr. Beus)

• MLA and Social Science Formatting

11 February – Session VI

·      The logic and coherence of it all (Dr. Compton)

• Oral progress reports in small groups

18 February     No Class/Work on drafts

25 February – Session VII

• First draft is due.
• Exchange draft with peer.

3 March – Session VIII

• Come with peer review.
• Exchange peer review.

10 March – Session IX

• Come with refined paper signed off by faculty advisor.
• Organize for formal oral presentations.

17 March – Session X

• Preparing for presentations.
• Come prepared to read three minutes from your paper.

24 March              Formal Presentations

31 March              Formal Presentations

7 April                  Formal Presentations        

14 April                 Formal Presentations Final Paper Due: Friday, April 16, two copies

ICS 490 - Senior Seminar

Fall 2004

Dr. Kathleen Ward, MFB 206

Description:  The senior seminar is designed to give you a culminating research and writing experience.  We expect you to base your project on a previous effort (a paper written or research begun in another ICS course), now to be refined and expanded, in depth more than breadth.  Thus, we see your seminar experience as one of developing rather than formulating a research premise.  We anticipate your final paper will be worthy of conference presentation.

Organization:  We will cover a range of topics that will help you focus your research, conduct bibliographic research, prepare a formal proposal, conduct ethnographic research (the general approach to ethnography is also useful in literary and media analyses), give and receive peer criticism, and refine your prose.  While you will work independently a great deal, you will be given a strict outline of due dates for specific activities, and you will work closely with a faculty advisor to whom you will be assigned.  This advisor must stay abreast of your work at each stage, give you feed back that you integrate into your work, and sign off on each assignment.

Outline:  The day-by-day outline of the course and due dates for assignments are presented below.  The beginning and end of the semester will be rather full with classroom activities and presentations.  Because we will meet only one day per week, it is essential that you attend each session.  Each session will be structured like a workshop.  Bullet items in italics indicate the assignment due on that date (I will be a stickler with these dates so you are best advised to meet the deadline).  The oral presentation and the final paper will determine the majority of your grade, with the paper receiving the greater weight. The incremental assignments throughout the semester and your attendance and involvement in presentation discussions will also be figured in your grade.  I will meet with your advisor to discuss your paper and presentation and to determine your final grade.

Special Needs

Brigham Young University-Hawai'i is committed to providing a working and learning atmosphere, which reasonably accommodates qualified persons with disabilities.  If you have any disability that may impair your ability to complete this course successfully, please contact the students with Special Need Coordinator, Leilani A'una at 293-3518. Reasonable academic accommodations are reviewed for all students who have qualified documented disabilities.  If you need assistance or if you feel you have been unlawfully discriminated against on the basis of disability, you may seek resolution through established grievance policy and procedures.  You should contact the Human Resource Services at 780-8875.

Preventing Sexual Harassment

Title IX of the education amendments of 1972 prohibits sex discrimination against any participant in an educational program or activity that receives federal funds, including Federal loans and grants.  Title IX also covers student-to-student sexual harassment.  If you encounter unlawful sexual harassment or gender-based discrimination, please contact the Human Resource Services at 780-8875 (24 hours).

25 August - Session I

·      Introduction

• Focusing on a topic (select topic and write out preliminary research questions) 
• Writing a formal proposal with annotated bibliography 

1 September – Session II

• Come with Formal proposal.
• Come with three annotated bibliographic references (primary and/or secondary).
• Primary and Secondary Sources, selection and analysis (Dr. Chen)
• Oral Paper Proposals (2 minutes each)

8 September – Session III

• Come with three additional annotated bibliographic references.
• Ethnographic Research Methods (Dr. McArthur)

15 September – Session IV

·      Come with signed-off proposal.

·     Oral progress reports to class

• Academic and Personal Voice in Writing

22 September – Session V

·      Creating an outline (Dr. Beus)

• MLA and Social Science Formatting

29 September – Session VI

·      The logic and coherence of it all (Dr. Compton)

• Oral progress reports in small groups

6 October -- No Class/Work on drafts

13 October – Session VII

• First draft is due.
• Exchange draft with peer.

20 October – Session VIII

• Come with peer review.
• Exchange peer review.

27 October – Session IX

• Come with refined paper signed off by faculty advisor.
• Organize for formal oral presentations.

3 November – Session X

• Preparing for presentations.
• Come prepared to read three minutes from your paper.

10 November        Formal Presentations

17 November        Formal Presentations

24 November        No class               

1 December          Final Paper Due, 5:00 (two copies)

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