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College ILA Website
Well, now that we've met, let's see what we might come up with regarding the course itself, shall we? Texts
The Idea Behind the CourseIntroduction to the Liberal Arts, as you'll see when you read the Introduction to the Liberal Arts Handbook, is a course designed to give a common experience to our incoming students here at Monmouth College. It gives you opportunities to socialize and be socialized: you can share your experiences with fellow students and you can share your intellectual experiences, as well. If Monmouth is What College Is Meant to Be, this course ought to help you understand What It Means to Be in College. We'll read and write in here, we'll talk and research, we'll probably even laugh a bit. Mostly, though, we'll see what it's like to take the world you live in daily and think about it more deeply, in more detail, and in more complex ways than you've ever done before. Course RequirementsYour final grade in this course will be based on a number of areas:
A Note on WritingCollege is not only about having ideas, it's about conveying them and, more often than not, that means that you're going to have to write them down, clearly and in detail. This class, then, is going to have you do a good amount of writing, both formal and informal. For those of your enrolled in English 110 this semester, you're going to be taught a process approach to writing, where you take an essay through several drafts before arriving at a "final" copy. Those of you in CATA 101 are learning a similar series of steps leading to that final speech. In both courses you're expected to think in stages, over time, so that your thinking can be hesitant at first and gain confidence in both its notions and expression as you reconsider and question your ideas over time. The truth of the matter is that no good thinking happens instantaneously, in one draft or at one moment. I expect you to begin to internalize this truth in ILA, even if this isn't a "writing" or "speaking" course per se. That means that I expect you to draft each formal essay you write in here. I will collect both rough and final drafts for each formal piece you write in Introduction to the Liberal Arts and will grade you on progress made over time, as well as upon the quality of the final product. THE MELLINGER LEARNING CENTERThe Mellinger Writing Center is available for all students: strong as well as inexperienced writers can benefit from suggestions and help from others. Even professional writers get feedback from colleagues, friends, and editors. Our writing fellows provide confidential help with any stage of the writing process: generating ideas; organizing paragraphs; writing introductions, conclusions, or transitions; or developing an analysis or topic. PLAGIARISMThis is really simple: if you copy someone else's direct words or exact ideas -- intentionally or not -- without giving them credit you fail the class. Universities and colleges are built upon the notion that ideas matter; if you plagiarize someone else's ideas, you're denying that fundamental tenet. Thus there will be zero tolerance for plagiarism in here. If you do it, you will fail the course, period. (Please see also p. 27 "Academic Dishonesty" in the college's 2002-03 catalog and p. 576 ff. of Hacker's Bedford Handbook, as well as the relevant sections of your Introduction to the Liberal Arts Handbook.)
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