HSE 101 - House Seminar Experience

4 credits
House Seminar Experience inquiry themes vary; please consult the University Studies program for current House offerings. Practice communication, thinking, and research skills as means of academic inquiry and learn how these essential skills meet the goals of developing metacognitive awareness. Gain fluency with key rhetorical concepts and perspectives and utilize these in a flexible and collaborative learning environment. Employ writing, speaking, thinking, and research skills appropriate for many communication tasks, paying attention to the needs of audience, purpose, genre, and discourse community. Use summaries, claims, and evidence to produce work that demonstrates nuanced understanding of complex ideas. Evaluate, discuss and present informed positions on complex issues. Engage the learning dispositions, best practices, and habits of mind that lead to academic success. Writing Intensive: Multimodal Academic Composition, Argument, and Research Skills.

HSE 101 begins a 3-term sequence and is followed by HSE 102 and HSE 103 . The House Seminar Experience requires concurrent enrollment in HSE 101L (1 credit), a hands-on learning engagement opportunity that offers weekly field experiences that occur both inside and outside the classroom. HSE 101/HSE 101L engages University Studies learning goals [A, B, C]. Corequisite(s): HSE 101L .
Graded (A-F) only