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Application for Inquiry Seminar

Core Curriculum: Becoming Responsibly Engaged in the World

Core Committee

 

INQ 100: Inquiry Seminar

 

Submit 8 copies of the proposal and the syllabus to the chair of the Core Committee. 

 

I.     BASIC INFORMATION

 

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TITLE

 

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INSTRUCTOR

                                                                                   

II.     SIGNATURES

 

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      date                        signature of Department Chair, or Program Director

Signature indicates the proposal has the support of the Department Chair, or Program Director

 

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       date                       signature of Division Chair

Signature indicates budgeting and staffing issues have been approved

 

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       date                       signature of Division Chair for Core and Academic Development

Signature indicates curricular issues have been considered

 

III.   FULFILLMENT OF CORE EXPECTATIONS

 

1.  Please explain how this course will enable students to achieve the Learning Outcomes, using the criteria identified for Inquiry Seminars. (See attached Application Guidelines)

2.  How does this seminar meet the writing intensive requirement?

A Writing-Intensive Inquiry Seminar is one in which students

                        1.   Develop information literacy and research competencies

                        2.   Practice generative writing as a way of learning

                        3.   Practice a writing process, either 1) using a draft-revision cycle; or 2) breaking a large assignment into graded stages

                        4.   Write a research paper

                        5.   Produce at least 15 pages of polished writing spread across multiple writing assignments

3.  How will this seminar prepare students for responsible engagement in the world?

 

IV.   SYLLABUS

 

Please attach a syllabus to this application.

 

Becoming Responsibly Engaged in the World

Application Guidelines for Inquiry Seminars

Core Committee

INTRODUCTION

Inquiry seminars are designed to introduce students to the world of scholarship through intensive, collaborative investigations of innovative topics. Excitement and challenge characterize these courses as students are invited to be co-inquirers into topics and problems that have impassioned their professors. All first-year students take these seminars during their first semester at Concordia.

Inquiry Seminars are devoted to helping students develop critical thinking skills and fostering a lifelong love of learning. These writing intensive courses emphasize the foundational and transferable skills of data collection, assumption analysis, thesis construction and argument development.

An Inquiry Seminar will address Concordia’s Goals for Liberal Learning:

1.   Instill a love for learning

2.   Develop foundational skills and transferable intellectual capacities

3.   Develop an understanding of multiple perspectives and their interconnections

4.   Cultivate an examined self-understanding

5.   Encourage responsible participation in the world

An Inquiry Seminar will meet the following criteria:

1.      Introduce students to the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of the course topic

2.      Develop critical reasoning skills

3.      Guide students in the application of appropriate research methodology

Writing Intensive Requirements will ensure that students:

            1.    Develop information literacy and research competencies

            2.    Practice generative writing as a way of learning

            3.    Practice a writing process, either 1) using a draft-revision cycle; or 2) breaking a large assignment into graded stages

            4.    Write a research paper

            5.    Produce at least 15 pages of polished writing spread across multiple writing assignments

 

LEARNING OUTCOMES

  1. Students will demonstrate an awareness of the value of intellectual investigation, the perspectival character of knowledge, and the need for continuous and enlightening public discourse.  
  2. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the ethical responsibility involved in intellectual investigation, the need for critical analysis of beliefs and assumptions, and the sense of beauty that comes with learning and discovery. 
  3. Students will demonstrate the ability to conduct an intellectual investigation by gathering, evaluating and developing data for well-reasoned arguments and cogent conclusions.