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HONORS 100 BJ: HONORS AT THE UW AUTUMN 2011 SYLLABUS

TA: Tarra Theisen Time: Tuesdays, 3:30 4:50 Location: PCAR 192 (Lecture); PAR 112 (Section) Email: ttheisen@uw.edu Website: https://sites.google.com/a/uw.edu/honors-100-autumn-2011/

About the TA:


As a person and as a student, I've always believed that the ultimate college experience is one of those things that cannot be charted or planned. To me, the college experience is the journey as much as it is the destination, and it's as much as learning from one's mistakes as it is from learning inside the classroom - this is what I hope to explore and share with others throughout my time as a TA and at UW. We are aptly taught from a young age to prepare for our futures and to always be looking ahead. While sage advice, I truly believe that we have to stop and enjoy the small things in life if we're to make any meaningful sense of it. This is something that UW has taught me: to take my time (in academics, in sports, in life), to explore new interests (pottery) while continuing to enjoy the old (tennis, reading, napping, shopping!), and to challenge myself to take risks that I would never do otherwise (a process in the works). I hope that you will learn as much from our experience together as I have from my time already spent here at UW!

October 11: Introduction to the Honors Curriculum


Objective: To introduce students to UW Honors and the essential points of Honors Curriculum. To cultivate a healthy group dynamic that creates a safe learning environment. Homework Due: Read Article Selection Personal Reflection

Prompt: Read New Yorker article entitled Social Animal. Drawing on the reading, reflect on why you came to UW and joined the Honors Program. What are you hoping to find? What are your expectations of yourself while at UW and in Honors? How might you begin to make meaningful connections?

Activities: Introductions Group Discussion Reflection Responses Presentation of the Honors Curriculum General Q&A

October 25: Student Community


Objective: Introduce students to UW life and the social community/activities in the UDistrict and Seattle areas. Examine specifically the community within Honors as well as UW as a whole. Homework Due: Courses Response

Prompt: Using resources available to you such as the Honors course website, UW course catalog, UW time schedule, and Departmental websites, draft a sample four-year plan for yourself. Do your best to include your Honors requirements, major requirements, and any other courses or experiences (such as study abroad or internships) that you know you will need or want to take. If you don t know what your major will be, pick one that you have interest in learning more about and use that for the purpose of this assignment. A planning worksheet can be found at www.washington.edu/uaa/advising/downloads/4year.pdf. Once you have drafted your four-year plan, highlight 3 courses that you KNOW you want to take while at UW. Share the course description as provided by UW and/or Honors, and annotate that description with a personal reflection of why you want to be sure to take this particular course before you graduate. We will eventually post all highlighted courses to the Honors 100 web page as a class resource.

Activities: Group Discussion Courses/Homework Responses Discussion of activities, RSOs, and events on campus Top Ten Helpful Hints for incoming students Honors Librarian Mentor General Q&A Class Social Discussion (Week 8)

November 8: Portfolios and Registration Extravaganza


Objective: To educate students about the Honors Portfolio and to convey information regarding the Registration process at UW. Homework Due: Set up Honors Portfolio Experiential Learning Exercise

Prompt: Set up your Honors Portfolio using the instructions provided on the Honors website. Email the link to your portfolio to your Honors 100 TA and to uwhonors@uw.edu. Put Assignment #1 and #2 in your Google Docs. Before your next section, pair up with another student in your Honors 100 section. You will interview one another to find out something you are each interested in or that is important to you; then you will research an Experiential Learning opportunity in the areas of Research, Service, Leadership, or International Engagement that would be an appropriate and interesting way for your partner to expand their discovery of the topic. Share your findings, including all relevant resources, with your partner and post a summary of your interview and your findings in your portfolio. You will also post what your partner found for you in your portfolio. We will eventually post all findings as a class resource (without names attached).

Activities: Group Discussion Portfolios 4-Year Plan

DARS Time Schedule/Schedule Finder Overloading/Auditing a Class UW Advising: Departmental, General, Honors Honors Core Curriculum Google Sites/Google Docs

Objective: To have fun at a campus event in time for the Thanksgiving holiday! Homework Due: RSO Writeup
Prompt: Attend one meeting of any RSO on campus and take note of what goes on. How many people attended? What kind of club is this? How do students get involved? Did you have fun or was it completely boring? Prepare a one-page, doublespaced writeup of your findings and post to your portfolio. Also come to our class outing prepared to share some tidbits that you discovered.

November 22: Social Event

Activities: TBA

December 6: Portfolio Presentations


Objective: To have students share their growing Portfolios with their peers. Homework Due: Portfolio Statement Portfolio Presentation

Prompt: Drawing on what you have learned this quarter in Honors 100, the courses and experiences you have had at UW in your first quarter, and the work you have posted so far in your portfolio docs, prepare an Autumn Quarter portfolio statement and finalize a three to five minute presentation of your Autumn Quarter portfolio. Both the portfolio statement and the presentation should tell your first quarter story to your peers in your Honors 100 section. Consider the following questions as you prepare your portfolio statement and craft your presentation: What goals and expectations did you have for yourself at UW and in Honors when you first began the quarter? Have those goals and expectations changed at all? If so, why, and how? Have they stayed the same? If so, has anything strengthened them? What is something that has surprised you about yourself in your first quarter? Was there anything that you learned about in Honors 100 that you would like to investigate further? What at UW is not what you expected? What do you hope to achieve by the end of your first year? By the end of your time at UW?]

Activities: Portfolio Presentations

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