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HMDV 151 Rouse Scholars Seminar II

This course is a special one-credit course for students enrolled in the Rouse Scholars Program. The purpose of this course is to extend the topics taught in HMDV 150 and cover selected leadership, group, and interpersonal topics designed to explore personal and leadership attributes. A significant component of this course involves career exploration through work with a community mentor.

Credits

1

Hours Weekly

1.5 hours weekly

Course Objectives

  1. 1. Critically analyze major issues in the context of community, identify one’s assumptions for who does/does not have the right to belong, explore contrasting positions, and arrive at one’s own position on issues of belonging.
  2. 2. Use critical and creative thinking to evaluate and analyze resources regarding a controversial issue, examining arguments and proposing solutions based on analysis.
  3. 3. Employ conceptual skills and knowledge of communications conventions to express ideas effectively both orally and in writing.
  4. 4. Examine constructs of belief/belonging and analyze them in the context of contemporary art and drama.
  5. 5. Participate in a career mentoring experience, present findings about the career and assess the potential for personal satisfaction in the field represented by the mentor.

Course Objectives

  1. 1. Critically analyze major issues in the context of community, identify one’s assumptions for who does/does not have the right to belong, explore contrasting positions, and arrive at one’s own position on issues of belonging.
  2. 2. Use critical and creative thinking to evaluate and analyze resources regarding a controversial issue, examining arguments and proposing solutions based on analysis.
  3. 3. Employ conceptual skills and knowledge of communications conventions to express ideas effectively both orally and in writing.
  4. 4. Examine constructs of belief/belonging and analyze them in the context of contemporary art and drama.
  5. 5. Participate in a career mentoring experience, present findings about the career and assess the potential for personal satisfaction in the field represented by the mentor.