HSE 102 - House Seminar Experience

4 credits
House Seminar Experience inquiry themes vary; please consult the University Studies program for current House offerings. Further develop communication, thinking, and research skills. Explore the nature of academic inquiry via research. Develop skills and strategies to discover, evaluate, and use authoritative information and data. Explore evidence available on academic databases. Generate and revise research-based writing tasks using argumentation and policy-based perspectives; sharpen citation and documentation skills; extend rhetorical knowledge of context, purpose, and audience. Learn to design and deliver formal research presentations. Engage the learning dispositions, practices, and habits of mind that lead to academic success. Writing Intensive: Multimodal Academic Composition, Argument, and Research Skills.

HSE 102 continues a three-term sequence beginning in HSE 101 and ending with HSE 103 . The House Seminar Experience requires concurrent enrollment in HSE 102L (1 credit), a hands-on learning engagement opportunity that offers weekly field experiences that occur both inside and outside the classroom. HSE 102/HSE 102L engage University Studies learning goals [A, B, and C]. Prerequisite(s): Completion of HSE 101 with a C- or better, or USEM 101 or HON 101 or WR 121 or instructor’s approval. Corequisite(s): HSE 102L .
Graded (A-F) only