12 courses with the subject ISC, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ISC 008Internship0.3
Course Students who have secured an internship that meets College guidelines may apply for an Internship Transcript Notation. "ICS 008 Internship Transcript Notation" is 0.3 course credits and is graded Pass/Fail. For more information please contact sholarsdirector@union.edu
Course This course is an opportunity to reflect on your life as a writer, and enhance your ability to talk with other people about their writing. We'll study the role of personal voice and narrative technique in academic contexts and beyond, paying special attention to themes of audience, genre, and situation, as well as creativity, purpose, motivation, and the role of research in the writing process. We'll think deeply about how we write and why, and we'll spend significant time sharing our writing and our writing practices. CC: WAC-R
Course A field course combining supervised observation and/or community based learning experiences in various health care settings with the study of problems and means of health care delivery and the social determinants of health. Please see department for approval and application process. CC: WAC, JSPE ISP: STS
Course Units: 0 This is the first part of a three-term practicum sequence that introduces students to college-level research. In addition to learning about research, information literacy, scholarly conversation and information ethics, students will observe how research is conducted, produced and retrieved using the resources at the Schaffer Library and beyond. Over the course of the sequence students will learn research methods, and help evaluate and reflect on peers' research assignments. Students who complete the practicum sequence will be eligible to work in the library as a peer research mentor.
Course Units: 0 This is the third part of a three-term practicum sequence that introduces students to college-level research. During the last two terms, we've discussed the process of doing research. During this third part of the three- term practicum, we'll put the concepts already discussed into the context of the peer research consultation and analyze pedagogical approaches to peer consultation. Students will apply research and mentorship skills to address peers' research needs. Students will use the skills gained to plan, draft, and revise a capstone project that they will build over the course of the practicum.
Course Units: This is the third part of a three-term practicum that introduces students to the teaching of college-level writing and the ideas and history that inform it. In addition to learning about composition theory and pedagogy, students will observe how writing is taught at the Union College Writing Center. Over the course of the three-term practicum, students will learn how to lead their own one-on-one peer review conferences and practice how to teach writing workshops in small groups. CC: WAC
ISC 300Students Call for Social Change: Write to Change the World1.0
Course Storytelling is powerful. Storytelling can change the way we see reality, and ourselves in it. Storytelling can inspire; it can change lives. In this class, students will write a personal narrative that calls for social change. Each writer will grapple with a unique and personal issue that has significantly impacted their life. They will set out to express their call to action so as to inspire the next wave of changemakers.
Course A multidisciplinary course taught by three different humanities faculty. Based on a different overarching topic every year, students from all disciplines across campus engage in the reading and analysis of visual and written material, in deeply challenging conversations, in the synthesizing of ideas, and in the creation of a host of different projects, such as podcast interviews, photographic journals, webpage designs, video projects, set designs, sculptures, visual installations, debates and presentations. Each Humanities Super Seminar includes speakers or workshops open to the larger Union and Schenectady community. Course syllabi, student blog discussions, and class projects will be showcased every year on the class website. CC: HUM