Mary Baldwin College Adult Degree Program

MBC 101 CE 102 INT 103

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Your GPS: Generating Plans for Success

MBC 101: Planning Your Mary Baldwin Degree ___________________ CE 102: The Reflective Self in Community - Steve Grande, consulting instructor, sgrande@mbc.edu INT 103: Information Literacy _____________consulting instructor,
COURSE OBJECTIVES: Weve intertwined MBC 101, CE 102, and INT 103 to introduce you to the MBC curriculum and resources and to empower you to make the best use of them. Youll practice reflection about yourself and your community and learn how to ask questions and seek answers. Youll emerge from this class with a plan and enhanced skills for your time at MBC and empowered for your role in the world beyond. Like a GPS it will help you plan your route and enrich the journey along the way. BY THE END OF THE SEMESTER YOU SHOULD: Understand your learning style, research style, and your role and responsibility as a community member. Connect with classmates, the college, and your community with reflection on and appreciation of assets and strengths as well as diversity of backgrounds and perspectives of those in each environment. Be able to appropriately focus an interest or topic in order to locate and evaluate resources such as journal articles, primary sources, and web materials to explore societal issues related to your community involvement. Know how to use information effectively and appropriately, including citing sources, in order to support research and decisions in your academic career and when affecting change in your work and community. Know the components of MBCs Common Curriculum , and have a draft degree plan with a major and minor page based on your interests, skills, and passion. The GPS experience meets your curricular requirements for MBC 101 Planning your Degree; CE 102 Community Involvement; and INT 103 Information Literacy, the foundation for your Research and Information Literacy requirement. GRADES AND ASSESSMENT: Your grade will be based on the following components: Discussion Board: 25% Quizzes: 30% Final Reflection Paper: 15% Class participation: 15% Annotated Bibliography: 10% Degree Plan: 5% Your final grade will be determined according to the following scale: A = 93-100 C = 73-77 A- = 90-92 C- = 70-72 B+ = 87-89 D+ = 67-69 B = 83-86 D = 60-66 B- = 80-82 F = 59 and below C+ = 77-79 You will receive one grade for the bundled course; however, it will appear on your transcript under each individual course.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS: This course combines group meetings with online work using Blackboard. Periodically throughout the semester, you will receive information about the course along with other important announcements through your MBC email; please check your account regularly. If you have questions about activating your email account or using the Blackboard course site, please contact the Computer Help Desk at help@mbc.edu.

Meeting information:

Blackboard (http://blackboard.mbc.edu): You will be using Blackboard in this course to access materials, view the detailed course schedule, and complete assignments. Make sure to check the Syllabus/Schedule link first. This will g ive you a unit-byunit breakdown of everything you need to complete and when. You can also access your grades in Blackboard.

COURSE SCHEDULE: The course is broken into three units, which are based on the Kolb model of experiential learning. The three units are the following: UNIT 1: Concrete Experience or What?: This unit lays the foundation for the class and includes introductions and connections. Learn more about yourselves, each other and your MBC community. Explore your preferred learning styles and how to best use them for success. Begin to explore your community involvement as a way of practicing reflection and research. Work for this unit must be completed by September 16, 2013 UNIT 2: Abstract Conceptualization or So What?: This unit involves making meaning of your community involvement as a means for exploring information literacy concepts and techniques. You will develop effective and efficient research skills in order to pursue questions that emerged from your community involvement. Work for Unit 2 Section A must be completed by October 14, 2013 Work for Unit 2 Section B must be completed by October 28, 2013 UNIT 3: Active Experimentation or Now What?: In this unit you will investigate how your research has helped you look differently at your community as well as your role in the community. The importance of the liberal arts in our democratic society will be explored. You will learn about MBCs Common Curriculum and Learning Outcomes. You will consider your passion, goals and how they relate to the Common Curriculum, majors and minors in order to design your degree plan. Building on these foundations of reflection, research and planning, discover yo ur GPS. Draft of Bibliography due November 11, 2013 Work for this unit must be completed by December 2, 2013

LATE WORK: Any work submitted past the Unit due date will receive 10% off the assignment grade for each week it is late . No work will be accepted after ________________

DISCUSSION BOARD POSTS: Discussion board posts are based on the class readings and activities as well as on your personal experience. You are required to use good writing habits, such as complete sentences, correct grammar and spelling, and proper citation when you incorporate the readings in your posts. Well be using the APA in-text citation style to practice techniques such as paraphrasing, direct quotations, and summaries. For more information on the discussion board posts, please see Discussion Board Instructions in Blackboard. QUIZZES: The quizzes provide a place for you to put what youve learned into practice, and hopefully will move you toward a greater understanding of what the course is about. The three quizzes consist of multiple choice and short answer questions, and you are very much encouraged --and some questions even require you-- to use your course materials and the library website to answer the questions. FEEDBACK: You will receive feedback on your quizzes and discussion board posts. On the quizzes, you will be able to get immediate feedback on all multiple choice answers. To get feedback on short answer and essay questions you will need to wait until the instructor has graded the quiz. Go to "My Grades" and check to see if your quiz has a grade. If it does, click on your grade once, again on the next screen, and then you will be able to read the instructor's responses to the longer questions. This feedback, especially in Unit Two, is intended to help you move to the next step in the class. Please be sure to review and incorporate recommendations as you move forward. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: In your annotated bibliography you will present some of the best source youve found while researching a topic related to your community involvement experience. It will include a list of eight sources in APA style, and an annotation for each source evaluating it and explaining its relevance to your topic. More details about the bibliography can be found in Blackboard. The bibliography must be written using APA style format. FINAL REFLECTION PAPER: The paper will focus on an issue or topic related to the one community involvement experience youve chosen to highlight and reflect on for this course. It will also include reflection on where you go from here. Throughout the course, but especially in Unit 2, you will be using this topic as part of your assignments to find a variety of sources. More details about the paper can be found in Blackboard. The paper must be written using APA style format. READINGS: The readings include the ADP Orientation Notebook distributed at Orientation as well as readings assigned in Blackboard. HONOR SYSTEM: All academic work at Mary Baldwin College is governed by the honor system. The honor system is what enables ADP students to complete exams at home and do college work outside a classroom. As part of this class you will learn more about what constitutes plagiarism and what is meant by an honor violation.

*There will be no extensions (ETs) granted for these classes.