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CAS 101
Freshman Forum
Fall 2003
Prof. William C. Horrace
Office: Eggers Hall 426
Office Telephone: 443–9061
Office Hours: 1:00–4:00 W
Overview
The Freshman
Forum is a small seminar-style class with a faculty member and students who are
new to Syracuse University. The experiences are both social and intellectual and
intended to facilitate your becoming an active member of the College of Arts and
Sciences here and the local community. The setting is relaxed and interactive
and the course includes topics of general academic and personal interest. This
is a one-credit course for which your will receive a letter grade that will
count in your GPA.
Course Calendar
Day
Topic
8/27 Class
1: Organizational Meeting
9/3
Class 2: Academic Advising and Counseling Service
9/7 Social
Event: BBQ
9/10
Class 3: Learning Resource Center - Time Management
9/17
Class 4: Career Services
9/24
Cultural Event: Syracuse Stage: Amadeus, Dinner at Phoebe's 5:30
9/24 Class 5:
International Programs Abroad
10/1 Class 6: Drug
and Alcohol Awareness
10/8 Class 7: Sexual
Assault Prevention and Education
10/15 Class 8: Group
Discussion and Course Assignment Due
10/20 Laura Hanhausen
Milton Fresham Lecture: David McCullough
Attendance
As noted in our calendar above there are 8 class
meetings, a class dinner, a class cultural event, and the Freshman forum
Lecture. The last three are in the evening. Attendance is required at all 11
events.
At the
end of each class, I will ask you to write a one-minute paper. In your paper you
will answer two questions: (1) What is the most important thing you learned in
class today? and (2) What is the one thing that is most unclear in your mind
from today's class? Your answers to the two questions are an important source of
regular feedback on how we can make the material immediately more understandable
and useful. Also, be sure to print your name and student ID number on your
one-minute paper because we will use them to take attendance.
Assignments and Grades
Your
course grade will be based on attendance and writing assignments. One
writing assignment will be homework and the other will be in class to test your
ability to think on your feet so to speak. If you come to all 11 scheduled
classes and scheduled out-of-class events and do every writing assignment
satisfactorily (in our judgment) then your grade is an A. For each class or
event you miss or writing assignment you do not finish satisfactorily (in our
judgment), your grade will drop one notch.
Academic Standards
"Syracuse University
students shall exhibit honesty in all academic endeavors. Cheating in any form
is not tolerated, nor is assisting another person to cheat. The submission of
any work by a student is taken as a guarantee that the thoughts and expressions
in it are the student’s own except when properly credited to another. Violations
of this principle include giving or receiving aid in an exam or where otherwise
prohibited, fraud, plagiarism, the falsification or forgery of any record, or
any other deceptive act in connection with academic work. Plagiarism is the
representation of another’s words, ideas, programs, formulae, opinions, or other
products of work as one’s own, either overtly or by failing to attribute them to
their true source. Sanctions for violations will be imposed by the dean,
faculty, or Student Standards Committee of the appropriate school or college.
Documentation of such academic dishonesty may included in an appropriate student
file at the recommendation of the academic dean."
"Public
Communications Any piece of work bearing a student’s name is assumed by the
school to guarantee that the thoughts, expressions, editorials, and photographic
material not credited to another are literally the student’s own."
Syracuse University Bulletin, Academic Rules and Regulations, 2001–2002,
Section I.1.0.
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