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5-7-10: C. Okpalaoka sent feedback to K. Webb:

1. Ask K. Webb to give concrete examples of research projects.
2. How much of the class is case study approach v. self-reflection (i.e., focus on the students’ own Eureka moment)? If it’s the latter, the subcommittee is concerned.  
3. Detail questions:  

• Page 3: what is “think piece”?
• Schedule of classes: (A)Starting week 2, what does instructor mean by “practice, library work”?  (B) Week 8:  Clarify what is meant by “2-page draft.”

4-2-10: CCI IIS requests further information from K. Webb. 4-12-10: Feedback sent to K. Webb by C. Okpalaoka:

The CCI Interdisciplinary subcommittee would like

• A clarification of the 2 credits for the course. The syllabus states that the seminar will be worth 2 credits but will only meet 1 hr a week. Do you want to justify the second credit by the amount of work outside the classroom? The purpose of Freshman Seminars is to provide (1) contact with faculty and (2) introduction to research in a particular field.  
• In the syllabus, the committee would like a detailed description of the research journal, the oral presentation, and the final project. Also, the subcommittee would like a few suggestions of research topics.    
• A list of topics that will run as a common thread through the class. Though the subcommittee understands that the field of scholarship (of the seminar) is heuristics, it is not clear how the topic will be conveyed (i.e., what the topics of discussion will be). You could  explain the enterprise in a paragraph. Alternatively, you could rewrite/clarify the headers in the schedule (in the syllabus). (Some members of the subcommittee believed that the common thread throughout the seminar will be the differing heuristics in the sciences v. the humanities (see course description paragraph). If that is indeed the core topic of the course, where is this topic broached in the schedule?)