Sophomore Research Seminar Proposal Form

The goal of the Sophomore Research Seminar is to help students learn research and writing skills. Like the First-Year Preceptorial courses, this will be done through content-rich courses designed by instructors from throughout the college. Faculty proposing courses should consider both content and integration of research and writing skills.  Click here for a description of the seminars and syllabus guidelines.

Submit proposals by campus mail or e-mail to Doug Klein, Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies, Olin 219. 
Click here to download this form as a Word document.

Instructor name:_____________________________

Application date:____________________________

Course title and description

(Students will select seminars based on the course descriptions.)

What will be the focus of the course?  What topics or issues will be explored? What are some of the books or readings to be included?

Integration of research and writing skills

(This information will not be available to students.)

Teaching the seminar means integrating course content with instruction and guidance in research and writing. Briefly describe how you plan to do this. What learning objectives in these two areas will you emphasize? How do you plan to integrate research and writing skills into the content of your seminar? (For example, how will you sequence the research paper and what guidance will you provide for students as they research and write it?). See SRS guidelines.