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Senior Project (390-2-20)

Instructors

Geraldo L Cadava
847/491-3152
Harris Hall - Room 210

Meeting Info

Kresge Centennial Hall 4-410: Mon 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

Senior Project - American Studies

The purpose of this course is to provide a framework within which you can pursue your own interests and develop your own ideas, rather than to introduce a series of texts or a corpus of concrete information. This course is a hybrid of the research seminar and the writing workshop, and we will confront the challenges of both researching and writing in a collaborative manner. To that end, some of our sessions will be devoted to reading and responding to one another's work. While it can be difficult and intimidating to publicly present your work, and to publicly critique or question another's work, we will undertake both in the spirit of support and assistance in the hopes of creating a community of researchers, writers, and scholars. Becoming a careful reader, responder, and recipient of constructive criticism are invaluable skills that fundamentally inform the process by which virtually all scholarly work is produced.

Class Materials (Required)

No required texts for the seminar.

Class Attributes

Advanced Expression
Department Majors Only

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: Pre-registration -- Reserved for American Studies Majors until the end of preregistration, after which time enrollment will be open to everyone.