L&I 100 L&I 100

Explorations introduces students to the joy of liberal arts approaches to scholarship while cultivating the practices and competencies needed for future academic success.   Each course investigates a subject of faculty choosing from beyond a single disciplinary approach, incorporating multiple ways of understanding that subject such as through natural science, social science, and humanities approaches, and working with different types of data and evidence drawn from different disciplinary approaches and including common popular sources.  Students will engage in the scholarly practices foundational to inquiry and future academic success, including identifying appropriate sources, assessing sources, scaffolding and revising writing, notetaking and annotation, and peer review.  Assignments and activities will cultivate students’ abilities to think analytically through identifying, reconstructing, and evaluating arguments in sources; selecting and applying appropriate tools of inquiry; drawing from conclusions from different types of data; and through writing and supporting their own arguments.  Instructors are highly encouraged to include active/experiential learning components in the Explorations courses.

Credits

1 Course Credit