The Syllabus, Fall 2007
ESF Learning Community
Accepted Undergraduate Students
Week of: |
Chemistry | Writing | Botany | Student Life |
| 1: Aug. 27 - Aug. 31 |
- Literature of Chemistry -Uno’s Garden |
- Writing as Process - Writing Habits - Free Writing |
- Three Sisters Lab - Consequences of being sessile |
- Community Building - Student Mentor Meetings |
| 2: Sept. 3 – Sept. 7 |
- Creative Wiki Assignment - Construction Materials |
- Creative Wiki Assignment - Writing as Discovery - Precise Language |
- Creative Wiki Assignment - Pratt’s Falls Lab |
- Introduction to Service Project - Freshman Overnight - Student Mentor Meetings |
| 3: Sept. 10 – Sept. 14 |
- Shared Reading Discussion - Color of Money |
- Scientific Writing and Audience - Reflect on Frosh overnight - Shared Reading Discussion |
- Solvay Waste Beds - Shared Reading Discussion |
- Sex and You!, Sept. 13th - Student Mentor Meetings |
| 4: Sept. 17 – Sept. 21 |
- Cosmetics - Exam #1 (9/21) |
- Peer Review - Close Reading |
- Plant Cell -Exam #1 (9/19) |
- From Academic to Career Success(in ESF 132 sections) - Student Mentor Meetings |
| 5: Sept. 24 – Sept. 28 |
- Group Work in Lecture - Construction Materials II - “Insidious Arsenic” |
- Diversity -Academic Writing |
- Experimental Design - Plant Structure |
- Difference = Strength - Student Mentor Meetings |
| 6: Oct. 1 – Oct. 5 |
- Drugs - Taxol |
- Rhetoric and Analysis - Detail and Description |
- Photosynthesis -Article Review Due |
- Student Mentor Meetings |
| 7: Oct. 8 – Oct. 12 |
- Cosmetics II | - Critical Thinking - Style |
- Lab Practical - Variations on Photosynthesis |
- Student Mentor Meetings |
| 8: Oct. 15 – Oct. 19 |
- Moles - Group Assignment #2 - Exam #2 (10/19) |
- Organization and Development | - Exam #2 (10/15) - Roots and Water |
- Student Mentor Meetings |
| 9: Oct. 22 – Oct. 26 |
- Water Purification - Onondaga Lake Project |
- Audience Analysis - Revision and Editing |
- Plant Defenses and Regulation | - Happy Hr. Comedy Hr., Oct. 25 - Advising and Registration “How To” (in ESF 132 sections) - Student Mentor Meetings |
| 10: Oct. 29 – Nov. 2 |
- Drinking Water - Group Work |
- Collaboration - Group Project |
- Begin Reproduction | - Student Mentor Meetings |
| 11: Nov. 5 – Nov. 9 |
- Fuels - Pheromones - Exam #3 (11/9) |
- Argument - Presentation Skills |
- View Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind | -Reinvesting in community: Interdependence - Student Mentor Meetings |
| 12: Nov. 12 – Nov. 16 |
- Scuba Diving -Waterworld |
- Writing about Service | - Genetics | - Student Mentor Meetings |
| 13: Nov. 19 – Nov. 23 |
- Water | - Reflections | - Exam #3 (11/19) | - Student Mentor Meetings |
| 14: Nov. 26 – Nov. 30 |
- Exam #4 (11/28) | - Oral Presentations | - Evolution | - Student Mentor Meetings |
| 15: Dec. 3 – Dec. 7 |
- Write Your Own Final - Review |
- Oral Presentations | - Diversity | - Student Mentor Meetings |
| 16: Dec. 10-14 |
***** | No Classes: | Exam Period | ***** |
