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This page describes honors and service-learning options. It also takes you to details of how to use MSWord functions to make a well typed manuscript. Finally, it provides directions to class events such as plays and museum visits.
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| Honors Options (1-02) |
The honors
options allow students to receive "Honors" designations beside their
final grades for courses in which they have earned such designations, and to
claim these designations as noteworthy achievements in their resumes. In
our course together, taking an honors option does not require extra work or
time; rather, it requires work of a higher caliber, greater depth, and/or deeper
and more substantial interest. Again, the commitment of time is not
greater, or does not need to be, but the depth of thought is greater.
You need to have a 3.4 GPA or higher to be in the honors program--either from IHCC or, if you are new to IHCC, at your previous college or in your high school. You can start the honors option any time during the first several weeks of the course. To do so, you simply need to meet with me and discuss your plans. Then, during the semester, you'll need to sign up with Dennis Anderson, Honors Advisor, LA 115, (651) 450-8667, danders@inverhills.mnscu.edu. During the course, you'll need to meet with me a couple more times to discuss your progress.
There also will be some slightly different ways for you to do some of your homework assignments. You can choose from among three alternative projects for earning the honors designation. Each project should take about the same amount of time as normal homework activities:
Each week, normally, you need to write comments about what
you've read for the week. For the honors designation, you may instead,
for four of those assignments, go into a subject more intensively.
Instead of the normal reading assignment, which you may simply skim quickly
and not write about, you may read and write about something along the nature
of the following:
(a) Composition Class: Read about writing--the history of
writing, styles and methods of writing, or even chapters from our own
textbook that are not among the normal options. Then write your normal
comments, but do so about what you read. You may also combine the time
and amount of writing you do into twice, three times, or even four times a
normal assignment to complete some or all of your four assignments: in other
words, join assignments together into a larger project taking the same
amount of time as would the individual ones.
(b) Literature Class: Read about an author--short or long
biographies/autobiographies/video documentaries, reviews/criticisms of his
work, , and/or even one story or poem by the author and criticisms/reviews
of it--and then write your normal comments. You may also combine the
time and amount of writing you do into twice, three times, or even four
times a normal assignment to complete some or all of your four assignments,
joining them together in the same amount of time.
(c) Humanities Class: Read about and/or work on one subject in at
least three ways (for a total of four "practice activities")--do
something creative about the subject, read something in depth, and examine
pictures or other visual elements. In other words, try at least three
types of "practice activities" related to just one subject--a
person, place, event, or specific time--so that you study it in depth for a
total in time and credit of four normal "practice activities."
OR
When you write a graded paper, do it as a joint activity
with another honors student. Your paper will need to be twice as long
with twice as many of the required resources, but the two of you can
coordinate all the work so all parts are shared, and share in the grade as
well. The time you spend on it should be equal to what each of you
would have spent on it individually.
OR
When you have alternatives for graded papers from which to
choose, select one of the more difficult ones:
(a) Composition Class, one of the following from among the normal
options:
"Personal-Experience Thesis Essay" (for Paper #1) or
"Analysis" or a "Critical Review" (for Paper #2) or
"Academic Project Proposal" (for Paper #3)
(b) Literature Class: Work on writing a Critical Review (instead of
an Interpretive Thesis) for the term paper.
(c) Humanities Class: Work on one of the term paper options in
"Set B."
Completing any one of these three assignments above would qualify you as completing the project for the honors option.
Throughout the entire process of developing your honors projects, you will be meeting with me (three times or, if you wish, more) so that I can give you helpful advice and guidance that will make your honors work as simple and clear as the regular assignments are for everyone else in class. If you are working on a project that is done in a matter of a few weeks, then our discussion can range among topics such as what questions you have about the course or its subject matter in general, what you wish to do in your future courses, and what avenues you might like to explore for a future profession.
If you are interested in the honors option, please talk with me, and I can help you think about whether the honors option is something for you to try: Richard@Jewell.net, (612) 870-7024.
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This course
may offer a service learning option that replaces bulletin-board class each week
(or any other activity that you are allowed to replace). If you're
interested, just ask--but do so in the first few weeks.
What is service learning? It is the activity of completing a work requirement--sometimes at the college but more often in the surrounding community--that relates directly to your college course, and then reflecting upon the work you have done.
Service learning generally replaces bulletin-board class (or, in a fully-online course, just one part of bulletin-board classes). Those who take the service learning option in our on-campus regular course do not do the once-per-week bulletin-board classes; however, they do attend regular classroom activities on the IHCC campus, just as do other students in the course. (Those in a fully-online course should work out with me which bulletin-board classes they can skip.) (It also may be possible in composition classes to replace some of the weekly comments on readings with service learning activities.) In order to engage in the service learning option, students must sign up immediately with the service-learning program. Contact the current Service Learning Coordinator at IHCC to do so. (Email or ask for the person's name and phone number, and I can look it up for you.) The Service Learning Coordinator then will help place you in a job.
Please be aware that other teachers may have differing methods of offering the service-learning option, and many courses and sections of courses do not have this option at all.
Here is how it works:
- With the help of the service-learning program, you find a course-related job for about 10-20 hours of time during the term. If you already know of a job possibility, mention it to the service-learning program. Your job must relate directly to your course: for composition, you would need a writing or a writing-and-researching job; for literature, you would need a job directly related to literary studies; for Humanities I, you would need a job directly related to the humanities (e.g., a job in a museum, at the Renaissance Fair, etc.).
- You must okay the job with me, Richard, as soon as you and the service-learning program have found it. I reserve the right to reject jobs as unsuitable (however, I'll try to be as open-minded as possible in accepting jobs).
- With me, you then work out an alternative program that replaces Friday's Bulletin Board Class (or something else). This alternative program will include credit for time spent on the job and time spent in reflecting--usually through writing--on what you learn through this job.
- You will be expected to complete at least as many hours in work and reflection as you are skipping/replacing in other activities. Because of the nature of service learning work, you must make a commitment to your volunteer job sponsor--and treat it as a normal job with no choice of skipping it except in cases of strong illness, and then only with proper notice given. (You will not get credit for hours you miss, even if because of sickness. You will be able to make them up, however, in other ways.)
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| Directions to Some of the Events Take these directions with you! Copy them as follows: (1) Mark them in this Web page using the normal marking & "copy" functions; (2) bring up an MS Word or email page; (3) paste them into the Word or email page; and (4) print them (or send them to yourself and print them at home). |
Scroll down or click on the links to see these directions:
www.GuthrieTheater.org/visit/driving_parking
MIA (Minneapolis Institute of Arts): Easy-to-find
Longer Way Hard-to-find
Faster Way
COPYING THE DIRECTIONS: Take these directions with you! Copy them as follows: (1) Mark them in this Web page using the normal marking & "copy" functions. (2) Bring up an MS Word or email page. (3) Paste them into the Word or email page. (4) Print them (or send them to yourself and print them at home).
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DRIVING
FROM IHCC TO MIA (MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF
ARTS)--
For maps, go to http://maps.go.com,
http://maps.msn.com, or www.earthamaps.com
and enter ”
BASIC DIRECTIONS FOR IHCC TO INSTITUTE:
1.
Go north of IHCC and turn left on
2. Take US 52 north to I-494 west to I-35W north.
3.
Exit at
4.
Turn left (north) on
5. Turn left (west) on 26th St. Go 3 blocks.
6.
Turn right (north) on
7. Turn left into “1st Level” of free parking ramp.
8. Walk 1 block further north to the Institute.
BASIC DIRECTIONS FOR RETURNING:
1. Meet in your driving groups inside the Institute.
2.
From parking ramp, turn right (south) on
3.
Turn quickly right (west) on
4.
Turn left (south) on
5. Go straight onto the I-35W south entrance.
6. Take I-35W south to I-494 east to US 52 south.
7.
Take
8.
From 80th, take 2nd right to return to IHCC.
MORE DETAILED
DIRECTIONS FOR IHCC TO THE INSTITUTE:
(There are one-way streets and a freeway by the Institute, so please follow
these directions carefully.)
1.
Go north of the main IHCC road where most of the parking is, and
turn left on
2.
Take a right onto US 52 north.
Follow it to I-494 and go west.
Follow it to I-35W and go north.
(Alternative: After US
52 north, take I-494 west to Minn. 77 north, and then to Minn. 62 west.
Then take I-35W north.)
3.
a. On I-35W north, watch for the Lake St.-31st St.
Exit.
b. Take it, and get to the right quickly.
c. Turn right (east) at
4.
Go four blocks to
5.
6.
Go 3 blocks on
7.
On
8.
Walk to the
MORE DETAILED DIRECTIONS FOR RETURNING:
1. Meet in your driving groups INSIDE the Institute, and walk together to your car so no one is lost.
2.
From the free parking structure, exit to the street,
3.
Go one block to
4.
Go two blocks to
5.
Go four blocks south, and just past
6.
Take I-35W south to I-494 east to US 52 south
to the
(Alternative: From I-35W south, take Minn. 62 east and then Min. 77 south. Then take I-494 east and US 52 south.)
7.
Take the
8. From 80th, take 2nd right to return to IHCC. Most of the parking lots will be on your right.
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COPYING THE DIRECTIONS: Take these directions with you! Copy them as follows: (1) Mark them in this Web page using the normal marking & "copy" functions. (2) Bring up an MS Word or email page. (3) Paste them into the Word or email page. (4) Print them (or send them to yourself and print them at home).
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DRIVING
FROM IHCC TO(MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF
ARTS)--
For maps, go to http://maps.go.com,
http://maps.msn.com, or www.earthamaps.com
and enter ”
Going:
1.
Use these directions only if you are starting in the area of IHCC
and/or Interstate 35E. Go to I-35E.
(From IHCC, do this by going north on US 52, then west on either
On I-35E, go past the Randoph St. Exit 104A about ½ block to the Ayd
Mill Road Exit 104B. Take the
At the third set of stoplights, which is
Turn right onto
2.
Go about 1½ blocks
west on Selby to the first stoplight, which is
3.
On
4. Go over I-94. Then turn left onto I-94.
5.
Follow I-94 for slightly over 4 miles to Exit 234 B, which is
6.
Get in the left lane of this long exit, then curve left and then
turn left onto
7.
You’ll then be going
southwest on
8.
Follow it to
9.
Follow
10.
Turn left (south) on
11.
Go a couple of blocks.
The museum starts at
12.
On
Returning:
It is easier to
return using the other set of directions for returning, since rush-hour traffic
is over. However, if you want to try
to return via
1.
Go back on
2.
Go east on
3.
Follow
4.
Take I-94 east to
5. Get in the left-hand lane and go just a few blocks to Selby. Turn left (east) on Selby.
6. Go about 1½ blocks and, just before Selby goes up onto a bridge, look for a little green sign on the right of the bridge entrance that says “Ayd Mill Road” and has an arrow Jog right several feet but continuing straight, take that entrance to Ayd Mill Road.
7.
Follow
8.
Follow I-35E to either
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