This course teaches students to write college-level essays in response to reading and analyzing college-level texts. Students will be required to write analytically and read critically texts that reflect cultural diversity and texts focusing on leadership as it relates to both historical and contemporary issues. Full-length works and essays may be included. Students will be required to write a number of research-based essays in which they accurately, clearly and coherently synthesize and analyze ideas and information from a variety of sources and points of view.

Syllabus Amendments:
The instructor reserves the right to change the syllabus, as appropriate and necessary to meet class needs. All such changes will be announced in class, and it is the student’s responsibility to be aware of any such changes. It is not the instructor’s responsibility to inform absent or late students of changes to the syllabus. Therefore, absent or late students should check with a reliable classmate in order to be aware of any changes in the syllabus.

I’m still firming up the schedule of assignments and readings, though the first 2 weeks are firm. By the end of the second week, the course website (still under development) will have the most current version of the syllabus assignments.