HONORS 2000 COURSE SYLLABUS
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Is this a Travel Course:
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Instructor:
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(If multiple instructors, please copy and paste table here.)
Course Catalog Description, including pre- or co-requisite course work or other required items. (Copy and paste from
online course description.)
Honors 2000 Description
In the Sophomore/Junior years, students enroll in two HNRS 2000 seminars which serve as substitutes for two INST
2000 requirements. The choice of courses ranges across the natural sciences, humanities, arts, and social sciences.
Students explore how various disciplines conceive critical issues, questions, and responsibilities. HNRS 2000 seminars
emphasize the activities and responsibilities of researchers in a global society and continue to foster the research,
writing, and creative inquiry skills essential to the Honors Thesis Project. These courses are staffed primarily by faculty
in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Honors Programs Goals
The Honors Program at Otterbein University is an exciting academic opportunity for motivated and high-achieving
students. The Honors program offers a unique set of innovative and challenging seminar courses from a variety of
academic disciplines. Honors courses will:
 Immerse students in challenging and rigorous material.
 Engage discussion and sharpen presentation and participation skills.
 Inspire practices of independent inquiry and curiosity.
 Demand a sustained and attentive intellectual pace.
 Create a culture of research.
 Foster community within the Honors Program at Otterbein.
Honors 2000-Specific Goals:
 To offer a seminar experience of intellectual inquiry (e.g. foster discussion and student responsibility for
classroom engagement, sharpen presentation and participation skills).
 To develop research skills (e.g. articulating research questions from a disciplinary perspective, evaluating
scholarly sources in meaningful way, developing productive library relationship).
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To foreground different disciplines and explore various disciplinary approaches to designing research
questions and methodologies.
 To encourage students to reflect on relationships between individual majors/disciplines and the discipline
being taught in the course.
 To help students develop an understanding of being situated in relation to a particular scholarly, professional,
or creative field.
 To emphasize written and verbal communication skills commensurate with advanced undergraduate study in
major field.
 To anticipate the Honors Thesis Project and generate potential research questions and topics.
 To familiarize students with various kinds of writing and foster flexibility in multiple disciplinary formats (e.g.
research proposals, lab reports, artists’ statements, abstracts).
 To serve as an opportunity for Honors program community building via the interdisciplinary seminar
experience and participation in co-curricular activities.
Student Learning Outcomes specific to this course:
ePortfolio Requirement:
Students are required to build an ePortfolio, if applicable, to save work done in class, to reflect on your learning and your growth
at Otterbein, and to make connections between different IS courses, between IS courses and your major, between all of your
courses, and your full range of experiences outside of the classroom. (Identify 2-3 learning artifacts created in the course for
inclusion in the ePortfolio related to the integrative learning outcomes.)
Required Texts and/or Ancillary Materials
Attendance and Participation Policy
Cultural Event Attendance and Participation Policy
Assignments/Tests and expectations for out-of-class work
Deadlines for submitting work
Final Exam Date and Time
Academic Honesty
All academic work should be your own. Academic dishonesty (plagiarism and cheating) may result in automatic failure of the
assignment or the course itself, and you will be referred to the Academic Affairs Office for suspension or expulsion proceedings.
You are plagiarizing when you:
1. Copy material from a source without using quotation marks and proper citation.
2. Follow the movement of the source, substituting words and sentences but keeping its meaning, without citing it.
3. Lift phrases or terms from a source and embed them in your own prose without using quotation marks and proper
citation.
4. Borrow ideas (that are not common knowledge) form a source without proper citation.
5. Turn in a paper wholly or partially written by someone else.
The complete statement on Plagiarism, Cheating and Dishonesty can be found in the Campus Life Handbook, page 33, at the
following web link: http://www.otterbein.edu/public/CampusLife/HealthAndSafety/StudentConduct.aspx.
Learning Differences
If you have a documented learning difference please contact Kera McClain Manley, the Disability Services Coordinator, to
arrange for whatever assistance you need. The Disability Services is located in Room #13 on the second floor of the Library in the
Academic Support Center. You are welcome to consult with me privately to discuss your specific needs. For more information,
contact Kera at kmanley@otterbein.edu, 614-823-1618 or visit the Disability Services at the following web link:
http://www.otterbein.edu/public/Academics/AcademicAffairsDivision/AcademicSupportCenter/DisabilityServices.aspx.
Statement on Credit Hour Definition/Expectation for Student Work
For each credit hour of classroom or direct faculty instruction, students are expected to engage in two hours of outof-class work (readings, homework, studying, project preparation, etc.). A four semester credit hour course requires
eight hours per week of out-of-class work.