Phase One: Being a College Student

Personal Tools (Weeks 1-4)

Week 1: 8/28(W), 8/30(F)

Course Intro; Group Communication Skills and Team Building

Writing Assignment due Monday, 9/2

Week 2: 9/2(M), 9/4(W), 9/6(F)

Bridgewater College – History, Traditions, and Support Services

Meet in Alexander Mack Memorial Library Monday. See Group Research Assignment.

Writing Assignment (postponed) due Wednesday, 9/11.

Picnic Sunday 9/8 6:00 p.m. in Wildwood Park

Week 3: 9/9(M), 9/11(W), 9/13(F)

Writing Assignment for Week 3, due Wednesday 9/18 (based on the following readings on Time Management and Stress and your own workload, feelings, etc.)
Time Management and Study Skills
Reading:
Gerdes, E. “Managing Time in a Liberal Education: A Parent’s Perspective.” Liberal Education 87 (2001): 52-58.
Brooks, David.  "The Organization Kid." Atlantic Monthly (April 2001). Writing Assignment (Reading Response) due Mon., 9/16. Note that the focus of the reading response was changed at the end of class on 9/13.

Managing Stress (Wellness Dimension)
Reading: Ross, Shannon E., Bradley C. Niebling, and Teresa M. Heckert. "Sources of Stress Among College Students." College Student Journal 33 (1999): 312-7.

Week 4: 9/16(M), 9/18(W), 9/20(F)

Activities: Attend Convo Tues., 9/24

Service Learning Fair, KCC, 9/25

Alcohol Abuse and Sexual Assault – Issues for College Students (Wellness Dimension)

Reading for Mon.: 
Schaefer, N. “Campus Crackdown: Is The Party Over?” National Review 5 April 1999: 31-33.
Abbey, Antonia, Tina Zawacki, Philip O. Buck, A. Monique Clinton, and Pam McAuslan.  “Alcohol and Sexual Assault.”  Alcohol Research & Health 25:1 (2001): 43-51. 

In-class discussion of BC Survey on Alcohol Use Weds.-Fri.

Writing Assignment #1 for Week 4, due Monday, 9/23
Writing Assignment #2 for Week 4, due Friday, 9/27

Academic Tools (Weeks 5-8)

Week 5: 9/23(M), 9/25(W), 9/27(F)
The Liberal Arts Tradition and Community

Reading for Mon.: Agresto, J.  “The Public Value Of The Liberal Arts.”  Academic Questions 7 (1999, Fall): 40-45.
Cooledge, Harold N., Jr. Academic Regalia.

Wednesday's class will focus on followup discussion of Tues. Convo ("He Said/She Said")

Reading for Fri.: 3 pages of "Student Anti-Intellectualism and the Dumbing Down of the University" by Paul Trout.  Sections from The Eagle relevant to the Honor Code and Honor Council. On Friday, class will meet at 10 in the Cafeteria for breakfast.

Writing Assignment for Week 5 (draft due Mon., 9/30; revision due Fri., 10/4)

Week 6: 9/30(M), 10/2(W), 10/4(F)
Critical Reading

Reading: 
Browne, M. Neil, and Stuart Keeley.  Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking. 6th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001. 

Analysis: During this segment, I will bring in articles for us to analyze and to practice the critical reading skills you are learning about in Asking The Right Questions.  You will write short papers of analysis during this segment.

Reading for 9/30: Browne & Keeley, Asking the Right Questions, Chapters 1-3.

Reading for 10/2: Browne & Keeley, Chapter 4.

Reading for 10/4: Browne & Keeley, Chapter 5.  Assignment for 10/7: out-of-class writing to be completed before class on 10/7.

Week 7: 10/7(M), 10/9(W), 1011(F) 

Midterm Exam 10/7: Part 1 due at 10 a.m.  Part 2 to be completed in class.

Reading for 10/9:

Assignment for 10/11:

Week 8: 10/16(W), 10/18(F) No Class 10/14--Fall Break

Week 9: 10/21(M), 10/23(W), 10/25(F)

Reading for 10/21: Browne & Keeley, Chapter 8.  Begin reading Guterson, David. Snow Falling on Cedars. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. (We will discuss this about 11/15-11/18.)

Reading for 10/23: Browne & Keeley, Chapter 9

Reading for 10/25: Browne & Keeley, Chapter 11

  Phase Two: Beginning Your Personal Development Portfolio

Intellectual Development

Reading for 10/28: Read Plato's Apology. 

Week 10: 10/28(M), 10/30(W), 11/1(F)

Take-Home Test on Asking the Right Questions will be distributed 10/28 and due 10/30. This will be an essay analysis, using the chapters we've read to analyze a reading.

10/28-10/30 Classes: Discussion of Apology.

Begin reading Einstein's Dreams (through p. 42 for 11/1. Postponed: Complete by 11/4.)  Overview of Portfolio Development: the First-Year PDP Essay and Reflection on Service Learning

Continue reading Guterson, David. Snow Falling on Cedars. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. (We will discuss this about 11/15-11/18.)

Week 11: 11/4(M), 11/6(W), 11/8(F)

Change for Monday, 11/4:  Meet in Bowman 310 for Peace Corps presentation.  We will talk about Einstein's Dreams on Weds., 11/6.

Writing Assignments due Monday, 11/11

Ethical and Spiritual Development

Reading for 11/8: King, Martin Luther, Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail.

Reading for 11/11: About half of Rubenstein, Richard L. The Cunning of History: The Holocaust and the American Future.1975; New York: Harper Collins, 1987.

Writing Assignment: Reflective Essay

Week 12: 11/11(M), 11/13(W), 11/15(F)
Discussion of The Cunning of History. No class Friday, 11/15. (Dr. Trupe will be attending a workshop at Sweet Briar.)

Week 13: 11/18(M), 11/20(W), 11/22(F)
Discussion of Guterson, David. Snow Falling on Cedars. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.

Writing Assignment: Reflective Essay (3 parts, due in Final Portfolio 12/10)

Citizenship and Community Responsibility

Week 14: 11/25(M)
Continued discussion of Snow Falling on Cedars.  Draft of first part of Reflective Essay due for workshop session.

Writing Assignment: Reflective Essay

Week 15: 12/2(M), 12/4(W)

Discussion of selected portions of LaDuke, Winona. All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life. Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press, 1999. Read Introduction, Chapters 9 and 10, and one of the following chapters: 1, 7, or 8.

Draft of second part of Reflective Essay due for workshop session 12/4.

Reading:
Hardin, Garrett.  “Extensions of `The Tragedy of the Commons.'” Science  280, no. 5364, (March 01 1998): 682-4. 
Hardin, Garret. “The Tragedy of the Commons.”   Science, 162 (1968):1243-1248.   Available at  http://dieoff.org/page95.htm  with accompanying discussion “The Tragedy Of The Commons Revisited.” 

Final Exam Period, 12/10, 8:00-10:00 a.m.

Final Portfolio Due.  In-class final: analysis of an argument (bring Asking the Right Questions)