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Sequencing Assignments in Your Course

A Sequence of Short Writing Assignments in Art History 601

Posted on July 3, 2019

Professor Ann Smart Martin Department of Art History Assignment #1: Write a 150-word analysis that makes your personal object interesting and informative to someone else (your roommate, friend, partner, or whatever disinterested person you can think …

Posted in Sequencing Assignments in Your Course

Sequenced Assignments to Introduce Students to a Field of Study

Posted on August 17, 2017

  Professor Louise Robbins, Professor Michael Edmonds, Library and Information Studies, In this series of assignments, Professor Louise Robbins and Professor Michael Edmonds lead students new to Library and Information Studies through a series of …

Posted in Sequencing Assignments in Your CourseTagged Library, Non-Majors, SLIS

Sequencing Writing Assignments in Intermediate Organic Chemistry

Posted on August 10, 2017

  Kate Vieira, Writing Across the Curriculum How does one go about updating a curricular classic? And what role do writing assignments play? These are the questions we asked Assistant Professor Helen Blackwell, recent winner …

Posted in Sequencing Assignments in Your CourseTagged English

Sequencing Assignments for a Final Project and Presentation in Asian American Studies

Posted on August 10, 2017

  Professor Morris Young, Asian American Studies In this series of assignments, Professor Morris Young offers students an opportunity to draft a final written project over time and present the project in an oral form. …

Posted in Sequencing Assignments in Your CourseTagged Asian American, English

Learning Contract for Semester Writing Projects in a Graduate Social Work Course

Posted on August 10, 2017

  Professor Betty Kramer, Social Work 821 Professor Betty Kramer provides her Masters in Social Work students with a contract to help scaffold their choices for the writing projects they will complete throughout the course …

Posted in Sequencing Assignments in Your CourseTagged Social Work

Labor Portrait Paper in Human Ecology 375

Posted on August 8, 2017

  Professor Jennifer Gaddis, Inter-HE 375 Course Description Inter-HE 375 Human Ecology of Food and Sustainability is an intermediate course with an enrollment of approximately 30 students who range from freshmen to seniors. The course …

Posted in Sequencing Assignments in Your CourseTagged Human Ecology

Sequencing Smaller Assignments to Support a Semester-Long Research Paper in Sociology

Posted on August 8, 2017

  Mytoan Nguyen, Sociology 210 Course Website:                 http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~cgoldber Lecture:                                  Tues & Thurs …

Posted in Sequencing Assignments in Your CourseTagged Sociology, TA

Poverty and Place Case Study in Community and Environmental Sociology 578

Posted on August 8, 2017

  Professor Leann Tigges, Community and Environmental Sociology Part 1: Using Structural Theories Of Poverty To Understand Place-Based Inequality Suggested length about 5 double-spaced pages, excluding appendices; 1” margins; Times New Roman 11pt font. . …

Posted in Sequencing Assignments in Your CourseTagged Sociology

Goals for History 201–The Historian’s Craft

Posted on August 8, 2017

  History Faculty, History 201 The Historian’s Craft courses offer an opportunity to experience the excitement and rewards of doing original historical research and conveying the results of that work to others. Through engagement with …

Posted in Sequencing Assignments in Your CourseTagged History

Sequencing Short Assignments Throughout the Semester in a History Syllabus

Posted on August 8, 2017

  Professor David McDonald, History 201 The July Crisis, 1914, and the Coming of the Great War This course pursues two related objectives. First, as an introduction to “the historian’s craft” which offers Comm-B credit, …

Posted in Sequencing Assignments in Your CourseTagged History

Curriculum Scaffolding in Writing for Science Research

Posted on August 8, 2017

Dr. Janet Batzli, Dr. Michelle Harris Biocore Scientific writing and research are central to the learning goals and progression of the three lab courses within the Biology Core Curriculum (Biocore). We have designed a lab …

Posted in Sequencing Assignments in Your CourseTagged biocore, Science

Sequencing Different Genres of Writing Assignments in a Women’s Studies Syllabus

Posted on August 7, 2017

  Professor Caitilyn Allen, Plant Pathology Women’s Studies 530: Biology and Gender WS530 is a writing-intensive course. During the semester you will submit two brief summary papers and two longer papers. In addition, there will …

Posted in Sequencing Assignments in Your CourseTagged Gender and Women's Studies

Sequenced Graded and Ungraded Writing Assignments in a Writing-Intensive Literature Syllabus

Posted on August 7, 2017

  Professor Lynn Keller, English Modern American Literature Since 1914 e‑mail: rlkeller@facstaff.wisc.edu Course Description: This course surveys American literature in several genres from 1914 to the present, acquainting students with some of the major movements, voices, …

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Sequencing Tasks for a Substantial Paper in an Advanced History Course

Posted on August 7, 2017

  Professor Emily Callaci, History 600 Decolonization and African Nationalism COURSE DESCRIPTION In 1957, Ghana became the first sovereign nation in Africa to declare independence from colonial rule, and dozens of other African nations would …

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Using a Semester-Long Writing Project to Support Essential Learning Goals

Posted on August 7, 2017

Professor Jennifer Gipson, French and Italian Instructor: Jennifer Gipson, Assistant Professor of French (jgipson@wisc.edu)Class: French 248 / Folklore 230 (Ethnic Studies): French in the United States In this project, “A History of French in the …

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Sequencing Assignments Over the Course of a Semester

Posted on July 12, 2017

Rebecca Schoenike Nowacek Brad Hughes Writing Across the Curriculum When sequencing or deciding on the order of your assignments for the semester, you may want to ask yourself two questions. First, what do you want …

Posted in Sequencing Assignments in Your CourseTagged advice, designing, sequencing, writing

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