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Genevieve E Mc Coy
BIS 300
Bothell Campus
Introduction to advanced work in interdisciplinary studies centered on broadly based questions and problems. Stresses the skills necessary to engage in upper-division research and learning in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program.
Class description
This course is designed to introduce students to UWB’s Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (IAS) Program and the upper-division courses that it offers. In it we will concentrate on your ability to read closely, think and write analytically, communicate clearly, research effectively, and work collaboratively. Much of the course will involve the interplay between discussion of primary and secondary materials on the one hand, and your own writing about those materials on the other. Course readings will be used to enhance your mastery of reading, writing, and other communicative skills and that should also make you aware of your own role as a producer, as well as consumer, of knowledge.
Student learning goals
1.)To become familiar with the concept of interdisciplinary knowledge production and the ways in which it is involved in the IAS program
2.)To become a better analytical, that is, critical, thinker and writer who is able to ask, answer, and reconsider a variety of complex questions.
3.)To become a better researcher, able to efficiently and effectively use the library’s data base resources at UWB and elsewhere in order to identify existing scholarship while producing original knowledge through data gathering and interpretation.
4.)To become a better speaker, able to communicate clearly and engagingly about complicated topics, arguments, and issues.
5.)To learn how to work well collaboratively as learners and as researchers.
General method of instruction
Lecutre, class discussion, small group work, library workshops and films.
Recommended preparation
Class assignments and grading
Short essays and library research assignments.
