Format for University 1301 Proposal



Understanding Yourself and UTEP Through Rock and RapUNIV 1301 16774; MW 3-420pm; UGLC 340John Siqueiros, Associate Professor of Practice, LART915-207-4637 cell and text; Office: LART 401 x8650; jsiqueiros@utep.edu; Office Hours: MW 2pm – 3pm (check Blackboard messages for Virtual Office Hours for that week; extra credit option)PEER LEADER: Cynthia Oaxaca Soliscpoaxacasolis@miners.utep.edu UGLC ADVISOR: Ray Varela revarela2@utep.edu747-8097AACLIBRARIAN: Jacob Galindo jrgalindo@utep.edu 747-6702LIBRARY 216Class Wiki: the contact information for two of your classmates (name, phone, email):NOTE: THE STRUCTURE OF THE COURSE – FLIPPED AND IN GROUPS – PLACES A PREMIUM ON CLASS ATTENDANCE. THE PROFESSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO DROP ANY STUDENT WHO VIOLATES THE ATTENDANCE POLICY, WHICH IS AS FOLLOWS:2 ABSENCES WITHIN THE FIRST 15 CALENDAR DAYS OF CLASS (MORE THAN ONE ABSENCE IN THIS TIME PERIOD WILL RESULT IN A DROP)3 TOTAL ABSENCES WITHIN THE ENTIRE SEMESTER (MORE THAN TWO WILL RESULT IN A DROP)FAILURE TO ABIDE WITH THE ATTENDANCE POLICY VIOLATES THE BASIC TENETS OF THE COURSE AND PUTS MEMBERS OF YOUR GROUP AT RISK FOR LOWER GRADES IN GROUP WORK. UNEXCUSED ABSENCE IS ANY NON-EMERGENCY RELATED ABSENCE. Open-ended assignments (submit proof via the appropriate Bb portal):Meet with your advisor (before 10/4)Identify Affinity Space (mandatory, by 7th week); extra credit for actually joining program or organization.2 UTEP Events (extra credit for group photos with 1301 classmates at venue)IMPORTANT DATES:Last day to drop with a W: November 1, 2019Final Exam Day: Monday, December 9, 1 - 3:45 pm (mandatory attendance, no exceptions or other arrangements)Holidays, No Classes: Labor Day, 9/2/2019; Thanksgiving, November 28 & 29.Final Deadline for All Term Projects: December 6, Midnight (Dead Day)Deadline to meet with advisor: 10/04Advisor Visit: Wednesday, 9/25Meet in Library: 9/23 and 11/04. Meet in Library 204a. Review and complete prerequisites listed in Calendar for each day we meet in the library.UNIV 1301/ESP Creative Projects Showcase: Saturday, December 6, 1-4pm, Bloomberg Auditorium, LibraryComplete UNIV 1301 End-of-Semester Survey: 12/06Grades made available to students: December 19. STUDENT EMAIL: You have been issued an email account with your user name followed by “miners.utep.edu”. You are required to check this account daily. COURSE DESCRIPTIONUniversity 1301 is a 3-credit hour course created to help you make a successful start at UTEP. This course will strengthen your academic skills and will help with your transition to university life by helping you develop an awareness of universal struggles associated with getting a degree. College is stressful for everyone, even professors! I hope to help you develop or strengthen positive and constructive habits and mindsets that will free you to pursue your goals beyond your expectations. Specifically, I will help you develop a sense of entitlement for university and campus-related programs, events, resources, and opportunities that will enrich your life, give you a broader and more informed perspective, and give an employer incentives to hire you, which is why you are here reading this! You have asked (paid) us to help you become a professional. If I were to ask you, When do you become a professional?, you would probably answer, When I get my first paycheck. Really, you become a professional once you have decided to become one. You will not be able to separate your education from your career. Therefore, this course will help you get the most out of college, especially with regard to opportunities that exist outside of the classroom. This semester you will come across many references to the UTEP EDGE. By the time you read this, you would have already been exposed to it. I intend to inculcate in you a sense of entitlement to campus opportunities such as studying abroad/away, internships, living on or near campus, and working on campus. You will receive considerable support in the course. An instructional team consisting of an instructor, student peer leader, advisor, and librarian will teach or provide support to your section. In addition, you will work closely with others, forming friendships and working relationships with classmates. The goals, instructional team, and class size and structure all combine to make University 1301 a course designed for your college success.The fundamental objective of this course is to empower the student to learn, establish goals, and achieve. I will also try to get you to feel, think, and act. Through history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, music and aesthetics students will become aware of the obstacles we create as a result of our own socialization -- specifically through the deconstruction of myths pertaining to race, gender and class, which profoundly impact notions of success, failure, achievement, beauty, imagination, and the development to to opportunity. Moreover, through stories from the lives and songs of seminal musicians and through required texts, videos, projects and activities students will learn lasting and valuable life lessons, positive values, constructive habits and important career forging skills. Moreover, the student will learn about valuable resources and opportunities essential to college and long-term success and achievement. Students will be exposed to and encouraged to engage in university services and opportunities outside of the classroom. Students will be instilled with a sense of entitlement toward university opportunities and services; and will be encouraged and given incentives to take advantage of university opportunities while they are working on their degree. Teamwork is integral to the 21st century work place. Most likely, by the time you reach my age, you will work mostly remotely and in teams. Therefore, daily activities and projects involving groups of 4 – 5 students are designed to afford students an environment that mandates student action; and require that students function in roles vital to the success of the group. Groups are given only broad and general mandates, including the mandate to self-organize and self-govern. ?Students will be assessed in how and to what extent they meet their responsibilities to the group. In the process, given the impetus to create and act, students learn?that inhibition is a state of mind; and that duty, responsibility, accountability, trust, open and honest communication, commitment, respect, and bringing purpose and meaning to everything we do are not only their own rewards, but are paramount to achievement and personal and professional gratification. Students will learn to take the initiative when assertiveness is a criterion to achieving specific course goals and outcomes and earning high scores. In the process, students are empowered to act; and to lead when leadership voids exist. The student’s willingness and ability to self-realize and then, self-actualize, are at the core of course expectations for group work and weekly assessments. Students will come to accept that every rock and rap star that ever existed achieved their fame through a process of self-realization followed by self-actualization; from epiphany to reality, illustrating that and providing a model for the idea that ongoing transformation is essential to our survival and our ability to adapt and progress from one stage of life to the next. Students will also learn from biographies that success is not a straight path and that failure is integral to success. The acquisition of a positive self-image, acquiring the self-confidence and strategies to persevere, obtaining a visceral understanding of research, developing the ability to think critically and communicate clearly, and exposure to campus resources and programs are the greatest benefits of this course to the student.LEARNING OUTCOMES:Students will have developed and applied elements of leadership through effective individual participation and meaningful team collaboration to empower them to be agents of change. Group work will satisfy this goal. Students will examine the roles and responsibilities crucial for their success in college and beyond. The Career Module and Borders will address these goals. Having built on their own strengths and experiences, students will have identified, assessed, and developed academic and transitional strategies necessary for success in their academic, career, and life goals. Borders, Research Project and the Career Module will address these goals. Students will engage in research and critical thinking activities that demonstrate their ability to effectively integrate their learning within, across, and beyond academic settings. The Group Research Project will address these goals. Students will engage in campus and community activities to increase their sense of academic and social belonging.Students will have deconstructed their own socialization and acquired a realistic understanding of themselves and American society though the study of American history, socialization, the profound influence of the media, including music lyrics and related imagery, and the historical treatment by the music industry of people of color. METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Seminar flipped class. A considerable amount of course content will be delivered in Blackboard. Blackboard will be the vehicle for distributing and collecting materials. This will be discussed in class and support will be offered. You will be expected to:Dedicate about 2 hours outside of /class for every hour in class (about 6 hours a week outside class). Read about 25-50 pages per week; watch at least one documentary per week. Complete assignments and other writing and research tasks formulated as exercises in critical thinkingTake online quizzes to assess reading, video and lecture comprehensionEngage in online activities and activities outside of the classroom.?Work throughout the term with a group of 4-5 students. Almost all of the course projects and assessments will be completed and submitted in the group context. If you ever find that you regularly need to spend more than 6 hours a week outside of class on this course, please advise your professor. MATERIALS (required reading and viewing)REQUIRED READINGBorders: Crossing Into Your Future (Entire Book) 8th Ed. Available in bookstore.Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States, (Chapters 1, 6, 18) Available free at Zinnbell hooks. All About Love: New Visions. (Entire book) Available in PDF online.REQUIRED VIEWINGShort videos deconstructing notions of beauty, success and achievement, race and ethnicity, and grit. CLASSROOM STRUCTURE AND DYNAMIC: Groups, Peer Leader, ProfessorStudents will be organized into groups of five students. Groups will be given only broad mandates including the mandate to self-organize and self-govern. Groups will be mentored and monitored by the peer leader with supervision from the professor. Students will be expected to behave and interact in ways in ways consistent with the teachings of bell hooks. Groups of 5 will interact in two ways:In face-to-face (F2F) discussionsGroups of 4-5 will be physically arranged in as close to a circle as possible: every student will be more or less equidistant from the center of the circle so as to represent equality; and everyone will have someone on their left and on their right. Students are to be engaged with their group during classroom group work. Groups with cohorts physically displaced from the group (off to the side, passively engaged) will be asked to arrange their desks so that everyone has access to everyone else. Students will be assessed by how and to what extent they meet their obligations to the group. The group itself will receive an overall grade for effectiveness. The average of the two grades will be your weekly group grade. Groups allow us to learn from each other; and we can learn and achieve together what we cannot learn alone. Major Term AssignmentsBelow is a list of major term assignments to be completed with your team. The description for each assignment indicates the guidelines for you and your team to follow. Each of these assignments is worth 1000 points or approximately 40% of your final grade1. Research (this project addresses all of the goals relating to research, leadership, communication)You and your team cohorts will construct either a 3-page magazine-type article or a 5-minute iMovie on any of the following topics. Each topic deals with a social aspect of a genre of popular music. In the process of completing this assignment you will learn how to conduct research, how to use library resources, & work with the course librarian, Mr. Jacob Galindo. Women and Rock: Voices and Representations or Women and Hip-hop: Voices and Representations(Choose one) Each of these will deal with how women are portrayed in either rock or rap. “Voices” refers to how women portray themselves; “Representations” refers to how women are portrayed by men musicians. Students place their interpretations of rock or rap lyrics and video imagery within the context of machismo, feminism and Black and Mexican American masculinity. Peace and Love or Lust and Drugs: Motivation and the Hippie Culture of the 1960s.Students must define love (per bell hooks) and investigate if the hippie was really an advocate of true love or just exploiting the notion of love.Tupac Shakur: Thug or Prophet?Rapper Tupac Shakur was a controversial figure during his time as a headliner rapper. The press and establishment successfully branded him as a thug and someone to be feared. Yet, when we study his lyrics we find a completely different person. Which one is the real Tupac and why was he so controversial? This topic examines the history of race relations in the United States with focus on the period from the 1980s through the 90s. Machismo and Stereotypes of the Mexican in the American Southwest: The Corrido in the Borderlands 1850 to the Present Students will interpret corridos of the Borderlands within the context of Mexican American culture in the American Southwest from Spanish colonization to the American encroachment after the Mexican-American War. Students will research more deeply the knowledge they have gained with regard to stereotypes, race, gender, and the notion of love. The word AMOR appears throughout the collection corridos. Is this true unconditional love founded on compassion; or is it lust and machismo involving notions of control and possession? 2. Interpretive (critical thinking, creativity, leadership, communication, literacy)You and your group will interpret the following songs within the context of class lectures, readings, videos, and discussions. In addition to interpreting obvious literal content, look for symbolism in the video imagery and metaphors in the text. You will present your interpretations on the day of the final. These music videos deal with mind-sets, traits, values and attributes essential to the setting and attaining of goals. Find specific examples in the imagery and text; and then, correlate those to specific examples in your readings, lecture notes, etc. All You Need is Love, The BeatlesBlack Panther, Kendrick LamarDon’t Give Up, Peter Gabriel and Kate BushBurning Bone, LynxThe Patient, ToolI (love myself), Kendrick Lamar3. Expanded Career Module (addresses goals relating to student roles, Students will complete individual career-related assignments located on Blackboard in the FOLDER: CAREER MODULE. There are a series of short reading or viewing assignments with a simple, multiple-choice/ true or false quiz associated with each simple individual assignment. Then, students will use the knowledge garnered in the packet to complete more complex team assignments relating to the process of applying for a professional job. Along with other team assignments, teams will conduct mock interviews of “job applicants”; and peer evaluate each other’s resumes. Within each team, students switch roles between interviewer and interviewee to gain insight and experience in creating resumes tailored to specific job descriptions and interviewing for jobs. Themes relative to forging a career will include resilience, perseverance, the significance of failure, work as play, communicating your value, engaging beyond the classroom, commitment, accountability, self-trust, and self-respect. 4. Group Dance ProjectEach group will be assigned 5 American social dances. The entire class will be assigned line dances: Cupid, The Hustle, & the Electric Slide. All of these dances will be practiced in the class throughout the semester and performed on the final day. Students will give short histories for each dance prior to performing it. The group is graded on creativity, bravura, time spent preparing, and the overall quality of the presentation5. BORDERS: Crossing Into Your FutureStudents will build on their own strengths and experiences, and identify, assess, and developed academic and transitional strategies necessary for success in their academic, career, and life goals. Students will learn about campus resources, build on academic skills, and develop a sense of belonging to and familiarity with the campus and its student service programs. Students should expect to complete the entire book under the leadership of the peer leader. GRADING METHOD All work is submitted via Blackboard. Click on MY GRADES to view pending, completed, and graded work. Total Points Possible is approximately 10,000 points; it could be more than 10K by the end of the semester. Quiz 200 pointsAssignment 400Group Project 2000+Reading Assessments350Self-Reflection Assessments 500Ongoing student progress in this course is evaluated in the following categories:Group Participation (meeting your obligations to your group). Every student will receive two grades for every group assignment or project: one grade that assesses your contribution to the group effort. This will consist of:INDIVIDUAL’S GRADEThe degree to which you contribute and participate without having to be told to do so.The quality and effectiveness of YOUR contribution.GROUP GRADEThe ability of the group to manage itself, including conflict resolutionIf a group is experiencing problems with a student, after attempting to reconcile and mitigate the situation, the group may appeal in writing to the PL and Professor to have the derelict student removed from the group. Failure to address member issues will result in lower group grades and a very low grade for the student in question. The overall quality of the final productThe GROUP GRADE and the INDIVIDUAL’S GRADE will be averaged. This will be YOUR grade for the project or assignment. NOTE: In this class, professor and peer leader weekly assessments of F2F and Bb student contribution and group effectiveness take the place of conventional exams. See Weekly Group GradeReading and documentary quizzesWhole class discussions (opinion based and course content-contextualized contributions) Weekly and final evaluations of Final Group Projects: Research, Interpretive, and DanceATTENDANCE POLICY NOTE: THE STRUCTURE OF THE COURSE – FLIPPED AND IN GROUPS – PLACES A PREMIUM ON CLASS ATTENDANCE. THE PROFESSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO DROP ANY STUDENT WHO VIOLATES THE ATTENDANCE POLICY AS STATED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SYLLABUS. Low individual grades on GROUP ASSIGNMENTS lowers the overall grade of the group. One delinquent group cohort can keep the group from earning A’s on Group Projects. An absence on a group work day will result in that student receiving an F for that day’s assignment; and the group itself will be penalized 10 points for not managing their group. PROFESSOR AND PEER LEADER GRADE COMMENTSIt is important to read the professor or peer leader’s comments in your MYGRADES. You will often be given the opportunity to improve your grade by following the grader’s advice when you see the following statement: RESUBMIT FOR A BETTER GRADE. We never stop learning and we can always do better.Late SubmissionsWork submitted after the due date will be penalized one letter grade. The Blackboard portal for an assessment will be closed on the day we discuss that assessment in class. Course Requirements Blackboard and Support: Course content, ALL assessments, videos, communication between students, peer leader, and instructor, grades, progress reports, etc. will all be administered through Blackboard. Please visit Blackboard Central on the 3rd floor of the library, if you need help with Blackboard. The staff at Bb Central is knowledgeable, dedicated, and friendly – and they have free candy! The south end of the 3rd floor offers all kinds of digital support including allowing you to use high performance computers, uploading software to your computer, and more!! You pay for it; use it!Participation: Students are given a grade for their participation in whole class discussion. Many of our discussions will begin with opinions. Everyone has an opinion on important issues. You will be expected to participate at the very least by offering an opinion. Participation in group discussions is a vital part of your education and a skill that you will need to be cultivate throughout your career. Professors tend to remember students who participate in class and at some point you will need letters of recommendations from your professors. Sleeping or appearing to sleep in class, refusing to respond to the Instructor, unauthorized texting or other use of personal electronic devices for things unrelated to class while in class, or acts that show a clear attitude of contempt toward the class, the Instructor, classmates or visitors will be penalized by points off the student’s participation grade. This should be extremely rare. In any event, you MUST come to class. YOU WILL BE EVALUATED ON A DAILY BASIS FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO YOUR GROUP. The peer leader and the professor are constantly evaluating you with regard to your contribution and engagement in your group. We also make a note of who contributes to whole-class discussions. Come to class, be engaged, contribute. Homework: You will be given two weeks to complete each assignments. Check the COURSE SCHEDULE for DUE DATES. All homework instructions are accessed and work is submitted via Bb. All work must be completed to pass the course. Come to class to learn updates on due dates. Refer to the COURSE SCHEDULE to see the list of assessments, assignments, and projects, an explanation of each assessment, and the due date. Attendance / Lateness Policy: In this course you are required to attend all classes, except in the case of university-sponsored activities or other excused absences. Other excused absences are listed below (proof is required):Medical – a contagious illness or other diagnosed debilitating condition is affecting the student’s ability to attend class;Family Medical – the student is responsible for the care of a sick, injured or disabled person and the provision of that care affects the student’s ability to attend class;Death of Family Member – the death of a person who is considered to be a member of the student‘s family or who is otherwise considered to have a sufficiently close relationship to the student that the person’s death is considered to be a showing of good cause for temporary absence;Military Duty – active duty service as a member of the Texas National Guard or the armed forces of the United States is considered to be a showing of good cause for temporary absence;Work Schedule – the temporary change of the student’s work schedule that is beyond the control of the student, and that affects the student’s ability to attend class. I understand how important it is for some students to work, so I tend to be lenient in this regard, but I also need proof. Other Emergencies, here defined as an immediate threat to life and property, or unexpected events that interrupt public access to the university.If you miss a class for any reason, excused or unexcused, you are still responsible for getting with someone else in the class (including me or the peer leader), finding out what you missed. You are still responsible for the content and any work due on the day you missed. Be sure to check with your group cohorts before class starts. Attendance will be taken at every class by the peer leader. It is your responsibility to make sure you are accounted for; speak with the peer leader, if you need to prove that your absence was excused.You are required to make non-emergency medical and dental appointments, or interviews, outside of class time.If you leave before class ends, you will ultimately be counted absent, unless you have given the professor and PL advance notice and your leaving is due to circumstances beyond your control.Withdrawal: It is your responsibility to drop the class, if you stop coming to class. Failure to do so could result in you failing the course. See IMPORTANT DATES on the first page of this syllabus for the drop deadline. Tardiness and the "Ten Minute Rule"If the instructor is more than ten minutes late for class without notice or advance arrangement, you may leave without being counted absent. If you arrive more than ten minutes late for class (or leave class early before being dismissed), you will be counted absent. If I am being delayed by traffic or some other unforeseen problem (my dog jumped the fence), then I will send out an Announcement from my cell phone and I will also contact the peer leader with instructions to conduct the class. Use of Devices and Cell PhonesYou will be expected to use your phones in responsible ways related to what we are doing in the class at any given moment. Continued use of cell phone for non-related course stuff can result in the student being dropped from the class. ?Policy for late work: Assignments submitted after class begins on the due date will be penalized one letter grade for every day late.Students who fail to submit assignments on time might not receive feedback in a timely manner. Therefore, it is important to submit work before deadlines for full credit and proper feedback. To earn a passing grade in the course (“A,” “B,” or “C”) students must have completed all major assignments, assessments, and essays, even if they are too late to get points. If a major assignment is over three calendar days late, the student faces failure for this assignment. However, in order to pass the class students must still complete all major assignments in good faith. "Better late than never."Classroom Decorum and Student ConductYou will be expected to conduct yourself in civil and professional ways. This is especially true when we are engaged in passionate discussions with opposing points of view. Violation of proper decorum will result in the student being referred to the Dean of Students for reprimand. [From the Handbook of Operating Procedures: Student Affairs] All students are expected and required to obey federal, state, and local laws, to comply with the Regents' Rules and Regulations, with The University of Texas System and University rules and regulations, with directives issued by an administrative official of the U.T. System or The University of Texas at El Paso in the course of his or her authorized duties, and to observe standards of conduct appropriate for an academic institution.Policy for missed tests: The only formal “test” in this course is the Final Exam. Students failing to sit for the Final Exam will receive a grade of "F" for the course. Any student who will not be able to attend the Final Exam at the scheduled date and time may take the exam early, if the student has a valid excuse.Policy for extra credit: Extra credit is available for certain events. Ask the instructor for details if interested. Extra credit may also be offered at the Instructor’s discretion for extraordinary work clearly beyond the level of the course. This latter type of extra credit is rare, and may not be requested. In other words, if you far exceed expectations on a given assignment, I could give you extra points. It happens. Copyright Statement Some of the materials in this course are copyrighted.Violation of US copyright law can result in civil damages up to $100.000 for each work copied. Copying of textbooks is not “fair use” under the Copyright Act. The “fair use doctrine” only permits non-commercial copying of part (in general, not more than 10%) of a copyrighted work. Do not bring a copied textbook to this class. Your cooperation is expected.Scholastic Dishonesty: [From the Handbook of Operating Procedures: Student Affairs]It is the official policy of the University that all suspected cases or acts of alleged scholastic dishonesty must be referred to the Dean of Students for investigation and appropriate disposition. It is contrary to University policy for a faculty member to assign a disciplinary grade such as an "F" or zero to an assignment, test, examination, or other course work as a sanction for admitted or suspected scholastic dishonesty in lieu of normally charging the student through the Dean of Students. Similarly, students are prohibited from proposing and/or entering into an arrangement with a faculty member to receive a grade of "F" or any reduced grade in lieu of being charged with scholastic dishonesty. Any student who commits an act of scholastic dishonesty is subject to discipline. Scholastic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, collusion, the submission for credit of any work or materials that are attributable in whole or in part to another person, taking an examination for another person, any act designed to give unfair advantage to a student or the attempt to commit such acts.1.3.12 Plagiarism: [From the Handbook of Operating Procedures: Student Affairs]"Plagiarism" means the appropriation, buying, receiving as a gift, or obtaining by any means another's work and the unacknowledged submission or incorporation of it in one's own academic work offered for credit, or using work in a paper or assignment for which the student had received credit in another course without direct permission of all involved instructors. Plagiarism is theft. Students with Disabilities Policy: If you have or suspect a disability and need an accommodation you should contact Center for Accommodations and Support (CASS) at 747-5148 or at cass@utep.edu or go to Room 106 Union East Building.UNIV 1301 students are required to complete the UNIV 1301 End-of-Semester Survey that CIERP administers online during the last 2-3 weeks of classes.? I will give a few points to your lowest grade for participation. ................
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