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Revision Date: 02-Apr-23
 

Fall 2023 | HUM-2010-VO04 - Seminar in Educational Inquiry


Online Class

Online courses take place 100% online via Canvas, without required in-person or Zoom meetings.

Location: Online
Credits: 3 (45 hours)
Day/Times: Meets online
Semester Dates: 09-05-2023 to 12-18-2023
Last day to drop without a grade: 09-25-2023 - Refund Policy
Last day to withdraw (W grade): 11-06-2023 - Refund Policy
This course has started, please contact the offering academic center about registration
Materials/Lab Fees: $75.00

Faculty

Telly Halkias
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Hiring Coordinator for this course: Collin Lee

General Education Requirements


This section meets the following CCV General Education Requirement(s) for the current catalog year:
CCV Seminar in Education Inquiry
    Note
  1. Many degree programs have specific general education recommendations. In order to avoid taking unnecessary classes, please consult with additional resources like your program evaluation, your academic program catalog year page, and your academic advisor.
  2. Courses may only be used to meet one General Education Requirement.

Course Description

Inquiry is the foundation for this interdisciplinary capstone course. It provides a forum for critical thinking about substantive issues, problems, and themes that affect the world, our society, our communities, and our selves. Throughout the semester, students will be challenged to ask critical questions, evaluate evidence, create connections, and present ideas in discussions and writing. This process prepares students for developing and presenting a culminating portfolio through which they demonstrate proficiency in the graduation standards of writing and information literacy, as well as make connections to prior learning. Because the final portfolio is essential in demonstrating these proficiencies, students must complete the portfolio with a grade of C- or better in order to pass the course. This course is required for students planning to graduate and should be taken within the year prior to graduation once all competency area requirements have been satisfied. Prerequisite: English Composition and a Research & Writing Intensive course or equivalent skills.


Essential Objectives

1. Explain how questions are framed and knowledge is gained in various disciplines, such as the sciences, humanities, and social sciences.
2. Investigate the philosophical and ethical questions arising from issues pertaining to identity, community, knowledge, truth, change, and responsibility.
3. Demonstrate advanced skills of reading, writing, and critical thinking in both group and individual work.
4. Locate, evaluate, and incorporate appropriate scholarly and professional sources, including primary and secondary evidence as needed, to address an academic research question.
5. Complete a culminating portfolio that includes:
a. A research paper with an arguable thesis that integrates five or more scholarly and professional sources to address an academic research question and demonstrates proficiency in the graduation standards of writing and information literacy according to the SEI research paper rubric.
b. A reflective essay that articulates how the student’s educational experience has influenced their understanding of themselves and the world.
c. A presentation related to the content of the paper.


Required Technology

More information on general computer and internet recommendations is available on the CCV IT Support page. https://support.ccv.edu/general/computer-recommendations/

Please see CCV's Digital Equity Statement (pg. 45) to learn more about CCV's commitment to supporting all students access the technology they need to successfully finish their courses.


Required Textbooks and Resources

This course only uses free Open Educational Resources (OER) and/or library materials. For details, see the Canvas Site for this class.


Methods

THERE ARE NO QUIZZES/TESTS/EXAMS IN THIS CLASS OF SEI

TELLY HALKIAS is the recipient of the 2013-14 and 2021-22 Annual VSC/CCV Excellence in Teaching Award, and has been nominated by his students every year since 2011.

CCV Faculty Receive Teaching Excellence Awards - Community College of Vermont

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Enrolling in this section is a rare opportunity for CCV students to complete their capstone requirement with a professional writer as their professor

http://vtdigger.org/2013/07/09/vtdigger-contributor-wins-national-writing-award/

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FROM PAST COURSE EVALUATIONS:

"Telly is hands down the best teacher I've ever had. He really encourages the entire class to participate in meaningful discussion. Each student in the class made very apparent progress throughout the semester, each one of us improving our writing skills."

"I am very grateful for Prof. Halkias' attentiveness to our development."

"Telly does an amazing job. I was encouraged to improve more than in just about any other class I have taken at CCV up to this point because Telly saw my potential and wouldn't allow me to squander it."

"What I found most effective in this course is that, though we were online, it felt as if Professor Halkias practically held our hands and walked through the entire semester with us. Professor was always present though we are miles apart. I do not believe that there is another tutor who could have done a better job than Professor Halkias."

The search for meaning in our world is perhaps the central inquiry common to all mankind. This quest begins and ends with the self, and projects against the context of a many layered milieu, one that includes everything from understanding our own past to defining our hopes for the future. Seminar in Educational Inquiry, CCV's capstone course, is concerned with this inquiry, one rooted not only in the breadth of our imagination, but also in the focus of critical thinking.

Central to this course is a major portfolio requirement, one that everyone must pass with a grade of C- or better in order to pass the course. And if you happen to be a CCV student, completion of this course will fulfill your major writing-intensive course requirements for graduation.


Evaluation Criteria

15 Discussion Forums (Weeks 1-15) @ 4% each = 60%

Essay draft (Week 7 and 10) = 5%

Portfolio part 1: Reflection Essay (Week 13) = 6%

Portfolio part 2: Oral Presentation/submitted digitally (Week 14) = 9%

Portfolio part 3: Final Essay (Week 15) = 20%

Total =100%

EXTRA CREDIT: 5% OFFERED

Max Achievable: 105%

SYLLABUS:

Details for all assignments will be provided in the weekly course page. Please always feel free to ask questions if an assignment is unclear or if you are having technical difficulties accessing course materials. Past student examples of "A" quality work of every key assignment will also be provided weekly.

This is CCV’s capstone course, required of all graduates.It is research and writing intensive.Before taking this course you should have successfully completed English Compositon I and a level 2 research/writing intensive course

Like SEI, each of the Level 2 courses has the requirement of a final essay that students must pass in order to pass the course. This requirement has been added to these courses because we were finding that most students were not equipped with the appropriate skills by the time they reached SEI. These courses assess a student’s writing and information literacy skills.

In addition, SEI has two other components comprising of a final portfolio with the essay: a reflection essay, and a presentation of the final essay.

This is why SEI is so important. Not only will we focus on the search for one’s identity in the greater context of our lives, we will also demonstrate writing/research skills appropriate to students ready to enter upper-level college courses. You have been introduced to critical thinking and information literacy in your required first year seminar class and to basic writing and research skills in English Composition. In the research and writing intensive courses, you should have taken these competencies to a higher level. Now you will fine tune these skills, so I’ll be grading the final essays and portfolios using the SEI Rubric as a guide, which will be posted on the course site for your examination and discussion.

Additional reading and other assignments will vary throughout the course, and will be posted in the Discussion Forums as part of that week’s ongoing assignment.

Readings by Week/Other assignments in Forums:

WEEK 1: Introductions, Inquiry, and the Essay! SYLLABUS: READ: SEI TEXTBOOK: Angier, Natalie: "Venus in Furs"

WEEK 2: Identity, the Downtrodden, and Initial Sources! SYLLABUS: READ: Rose, Mike: "I Just Wanna Be Average"

WEEK 3: Identity, Literacy, and The Library Consult!SYLLABUS SYLLABUS: READ: Tan, Amy: "Mother Tongue"

WEEK 4: Thinking, Knowledge, and Essay Outlines! SYLLABUS: READ: Conroy, Frank: "Think About It"

WEEK 5: Thinking, Dichotomies, and The List of Works Cited! SYLLABUS: READ: Tannen, Deborah, "Communication Styles"

WEEK 6: Draft Protocols, Do's and Don'ts, and The Thesis Paragraph/Essay Template!

WEEK 7: Submitting/Reviewing the Draft!

WEEK 8: Ethics, Creativity, and Editing, part 1! SYLLABUS: READ Bronowski, Jacob: "The Reach of Imagination"

WEEK 9: Values, Human Rights, and Editing, part 2! SYLLABUS: READ: "Declaration of Independence" "Gettysburg Address"

WEEK 10: The Second Edited draft, and peer comments!

WEEK 11: The Common Good, Conflict, and Perception! SYLLABUS: READ: McPhee, John: "Los Angeles Against The Mountains"

WEEK 12: Context, Booze, and Family! SYLLABUS: READ: Sanders, Scott Russell: "The Inheritance of Tools" "Under the Influence"

WEEK 13: Context, The Cosmos, and PORTFOLIO 1: Reflection Essay SYLLABUS: READ: Hawking, Stephen W.: "Our Picture of the Universe"

WEEK 14: War, and PORTFOLIO 2: Presentation SYLLABUS: READ: Mead, Margaret: "War is an Invention"

WEEK 15: PORTFOLIO 3: The Final Essay


Grading Criteria

CCV Letter Grades as outlined in the Evaluation System Policy are assigned according to the following chart:

 HighLow
A+10098
A Less than 9893
A-Less than 9390
B+Less than 9088
B Less than 8883
B-Less than 8380
C+Less than 8078
C Less than 7873
C-Less than 7370
D+Less than 7068
D Less than 6863
D-Less than 6360
FLess than 60 
P10060
NPLess than 600


Attendance Policy

Regular attendance and participation in classes are essential for success in and are completion requirements for courses at CCV. A student's failure to meet attendance requirements as specified in course descriptions will normally result in a non-satisfactory grade.

  • In general, missing more than 20% of a course due to absences, lateness or early departures may jeopardize a student's ability to earn a satisfactory final grade.
  • Attending an on-ground or synchronous course means a student appeared in the live classroom for at least a meaningful portion of a given class meeting. Attending an online course means a student posted a discussion forum response, completed a quiz or attempted some other academically required activity. Simply viewing a course item or module does not count as attendance.
  • Meeting the minimum attendance requirement for a course does not mean a student has satisfied the academic requirements for participation, which require students to go above and beyond simply attending a portion of the class. Faculty members will individually determine what constitutes participation in each course they teach and explain in their course descriptions how participation factors into a student's final grade.

Accessibility Services for Students with Disabilities:


CCV strives to mitigate barriers to course access for students with documented disabilities. To request accommodations, please
  1. Provide disability documentation to the Accessibility Coordinator at your academic center. https://ccv.edu/discover-resources/students-with-disabilities/
  2. Request an appointment to meet with accessibility coordinator to discuss your request and create an accommodation plan.
  3. Once created, students will share the accommodation plan with faculty. Please note, faculty cannot make disability accommodations outside of this process.


Academic Integrity


CCV has a commitment to honesty and excellence in academic work and expects the same from all students. Academic dishonesty, or cheating, can occur whenever you present -as your own work- something that you did not do. You can also be guilty of cheating if you help someone else cheat. Being unaware of what constitutes academic dishonesty (such as knowing what plagiarism is) does not absolve a student of the responsibility to be honest in his/her academic work. Academic dishonesty is taken very seriously and may lead to dismissal from the College.