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INIT 100, First-Year Initiatives
Autumn 2015
TTh 10:00-11:50 AM
Robert André LaFleur Office
Hours:
Morse Ingersoll 111 Tuesday
2:00-3:30
363-2005 Thursday
2:00-3:30
lafleur@beloit.edu …or by
appointment
Required Books
Allitt, Patrick. I'm the Teacher, You're the Student.
Bain, Ken. What the Best College Teachers Do.
Bain, Ken. What the Best College Students Do.
Chace, William. One Hundred Semesters.
Emerson, Robert. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes.
Kluge, P.F. Final Exam.
Martin, Roger. Brave Noises.
Nathan, Rebekah. My Freshman Year.
Rosovsky, Henry. The University: An Owner's Manual.
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Fieldnote notebook (required).
The Chronicle of Higher Education (arrives in bookstore in September)
Allitt, Patrick. I'm the Teacher, You're the Student.
Bain, Ken. What the Best College Teachers Do.
Bain, Ken. What the Best College Students Do.
Chace, William. One Hundred Semesters.
Emerson, Robert. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes.
Kluge, P.F. Final Exam.
Martin, Roger. Brave Noises.
Nathan, Rebekah. My Freshman Year.
Rosovsky, Henry. The University: An Owner's Manual.
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Fieldnote notebook (required).
The Chronicle of Higher Education (arrives in bookstore in September)
Reserve Books
Landon, Brooks. Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft.
All course books are also available at the reserve desk at the library. Since there are a limited number of each book (usually one or two), please make sure that you plan ahead if you are going to read a book on reserve. Listen in class for "reserve strategies," as well.
Landon, Brooks. Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft.
All course books are also available at the reserve desk at the library. Since there are a limited number of each book (usually one or two), please make sure that you plan ahead if you are going to read a book on reserve. Listen in class for "reserve strategies," as well.
Course Description
In this seminar, we will
explore the changing world of liberal arts education. Beginning with the
playful “foundation” of a fictional college created by the instructor, we will
examine the role of small colleges in a vast system of American higher
education.
While learning about
classes, academic requirements, and student life at Beloit College (something
we share with all FYI students), our seminar will explore the ways that
colleges perceive their histories, how they “sell” themselves, and even how
they run their business operations. In the process, we will read a wide array
of stories, novels, memoirs, financial reports, and educational treatises that
speak to the role of education in a rapidly changing twenty-first century.
We will not limit ourselves
to the American liberal arts college, either. The idea to put talented students
and creative teachers together in small classes has caught on in a few parts of
the world, and we will learn how these colleges look and operate in Hong Kong,
Japan, India, and several parts of Europe. In the process, students will gain a
distinctive perspective on the work that they will be doing right up until
their own college graduations in 2019.
Evaluation
Quizzes 15%
Fieldnotes 15%
Rewrites 15%
Ponder Letter 30%
Final Presentation 25%
Class attendance and participation is expected.
Rewrites 15%
Ponder Letter 30%
Final Presentation 25%
Class attendance and participation is expected.
Ponder College
INIT 100.12
(October 20, 22)
Allitt, I'm the Teacher, You're the Student, 1-238
The Introductory CourseGetting Ready
Early Class Meetings
The Discussion and Lecture Routine
Educators' Excursions
Technology and Technique
Papers and Plagiarism
Treats and Tribulations
Radicals and Patriots
The Conscious Professor
Long Dry Spouts and Levels Unheard Of
Mid-Term Misconceptions
A Dry Pleasure
Vietnam as Ancient History
First Drafts, Draft Dodgers, and Deadlines
From the Hitler-Stalin Pack to the Peace Treat
Inflated Grades and Sentiments
Finals and Farewells
Appendix: Syllabus, Handouts, and Exam Answers
Week X
(October 27, 29)
Chace, One Hundred Semesters, ix-176
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction
I Knew Exactly What I Was Doing
Haverford—the Guilty Reminder
And All Will Be Well
The Readiness Is All
Berkeley: Thoroughly Unready
The Discipline of Literature
A New Kind of Proletariat
Going South
Reading in Jail
Poetry and Politics
The Storehouse of Knowledge
Unfolding the Origami of Teaching
Tenure and Its Discontents
Tenure Tested
Teaching and Its Discontents
The English Department in Disarray
Week XI
(November 3, 5)
Chace, One Hundred Semesters, 177-338
Why Join the Administration?Exchanging Reflections for Action
Diversity University
Marching to a Different Drummer
The Puzzle of Leadership
Looking at Success; Looking at Failure
Learning and Then Leaving
A School with Aspirations
Being a Proprietor
Real and Imaginary Power
"A King of Infinite Space"
Week XII
(November 10, 12)
Kluge, Final Exam (novel)
(hard copy in my office—MI 111)
Week XIII
(November 17, 19)
Emerson, Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, 201-248
Writing an Ethnography
Conclusion
Writing an Ethnography
Conclusion
Week XIV
(November 24)
Final FYI Meeting
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