Assignment schedule

CAS 101
First-Year Forum
Section M040
Fall 2006
Syracuse University
Time: Tuesdays 12:30-1:50 p.m.
Place: Physics 126B

Rebecca Moore Howard
Office: 237 HB Crouse
Office hours
Phone 315-443-1620
rehoward@syr.edu
FAX: 315-691-9821
AIM: ProfBfromWV

In class

1. Introductions
2. Course overview
3. Techniques for reflective writing

Prepare for class

1. Sometime this week, take one of the scheduled tours of Bird Library.

Bring to class

1. Your calendar, dayplanner, or PDA

In class

1. Time management
2. Effort management
3. Techniques for "reading" oral texts

Prepare for class

1. Write a 500-word reflection on your tour of Bird Library. Some of the issues you might raise and focus on:
   ---How this library is different from the one at your high school;
   ---What surprises you about this library;
   ---What confuses you about this library;
   ---What excites you about this library.
   The handout "Reading to Reflect" (in the Documents folder on Blackboard) should help you generate an approach for this paper. Feel free to email me with questions as you work on it.
2. Look over this revised schedule of assignments. I've had to make adjustments: Because of a time conflict with a faculty development seminar at which I am a presenter, I've had to cancel our class meetings on September 26 and October 3, which pushes our class schedule further into the semester. This has also occasioned a rescheduling of my lunch dates with you at the end of the term. So look at the schedule to be sure that you'll be able to attend all the events. Then send me an email confirming that you'll be at everything or telling me what you have to miss. (If you did this before September 2, please do it again, confirming this revised schedule.) For any events that you cannot attend, you must substitute a cultural event and write a summary of it. To substitute a cultural event, you must decide what you want to attend and propose it to me; then we'll agree on what constitutes an appropriate substitution. If you're stumped for what to propose, I'd suggest your browsing the rich and varied listings on the SU Events Calendar. (And nooo, sports events will not count! But most films, lectures, concerts, and performances will.)

Bring to class

1. Your calendar, dayplanner, or PDA
2. Two copies of your course schedule
3. Hard copy of your reflection on the library tour. As you prepare your text, follow these manuscript guidelines.

Nevertheless

1. Many class members have not done the second half of the assignment for September 5. Please scroll up and catch up.

1. During the lecture, take notes about major points.
2. Immediately at the end of the lecture, fill in your notes with everything else you remember.
3. After the lecture, organize your notes into an outline. You'll need this for a later writing assignment.

1. During the lecture, take notes about major points
2. Immediately at the end of the lecture, fill in your notes with everything else you remember
3. After the lecture, organize your notes into an outline. You'll be handing in this work on September 19. Write your outline in such a way that someone who wasn't at the lecture will have a concrete sense of what Goodall said.

In class

1. Jane Goodall and Suzanne Thorin discussion
2. Information literacy
3. Hand in the notes you took during the Goodall lecture and the outline you made from them.

Prepare for class

1. Outline the Goodall lecture, preparing the outline to be handed in. As you prepare your outline, apply any of the manuscript guidelines that are appropriate to this task.
2. Browse around on and familiarize yourself with the online SU library.

Bring to class

1. Your notes and outline from the Thorin and Goodall lectures
2. Techniques for "reading" oral texts

Prepare for class

1. A 500- to 750-word essay that synthesizes your library tour, the online library, and the Thorin lecture. You may want to include data from our September 19 class meeting. The handout "Synthesizing" in the class Blackboard folder may help you think about how to frame your paper. As you prepare your text, follow these manuscript guidelines.

Bring to 239 HBC

1. A copy of your synthesis

In class

1. Charting your academic career
2. Choosing courses
3. Discussion: outlining

Prepare for class

1. Figure out how to declare a major
2. Figure out how to drop a class
3. Figure out how to transfer to another college or school at SU
4. Find out how to gain admission to the Honors Program
5. Find out the criteria for graduating with honors in an Arts & Sciences major that you might eventually choose

Bring to class

1. Your Liberal Arts Core book
2. Any other materials you need in order to explain to the class what you've learned for today's assignment

In class

1. The mechanics of quotation, citation, and documentation
2. Avoiding plagiarism

Prepare for class

1. Find out how to declare your major
2. Find out what tuition credit is
3. Get the Liberal Arts Core book and the Syracuse University Bulletin and Undergrdaduate Course Catalog, 2006-2007
4. Find out what the "semester withdrawal deadline" is
5. Find out where the drop forms are
6. Find out what the GPA is for graduating cum laude; magna cum laude; and summa cum laude
7. Find out who your recorder is and make an appointment to "read" your transcript. (I'll ask you for a copy of it)

Bring to class

1. Your Liberal Arts Core book
2. The Syracuse University Bulletin and Undergrdaduate Course Catalog, 2006-2007

No class meeting

Prepare for class

1. A 500- to 750-word essay that synthesizes the Goodall and Maathai lectures. The handout "Synthesizing" in the class Blackboard folder may help you think about how to frame your paper. As you prepare your text, follow these manuscript guidelines. You may submit this paper by dropping it off at 239 HB Crouse, or by attaching it to an email to me.

David, Melissa, Kara, Matt Schoeneck

In class

1. Course selection discussion

Prepare for class

1. Preview The Time Schedule of Classes, Spring 2007
2. Review your transcript after your recorder has read it
3. Figure out what courses you are still required to take for Arts & Sciences (and for your major, if you know what that will be)
4. Think about what courses you might want to take, and why

Bring to class

1. Your Liberal Arts Core book
2. The Syracuse University Bulletin and Undergrdaduate Course Catalog, 2006-2007
3. The Time Schedule of Classes, Spring 2007

April, Bari, Tim, Lindsay

Matt Smith, Maureen, Shawn

Gloria, Holly, Ashley