Summer 2024 - FASS 223 D300
Special Topics in the Arts and Social Sciences: Working with Others (1)
Class Number: 4421
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
May 6 – Jun 17, 2024: Tue, 2:30–5:20 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Aaron Hoffman
ahoffman@sfu.ca
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Prerequisites:
15 units.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Introduces the basic concepts and skills of team work and negotiating ideas with others. Topics vary with instructor expertise. No prior knowledge of the topic is required. Suitable for students across all disciplines. Students may take this course for credit up to three times if a different topic is taught. Students with credit for FASS 204 or FASS 206 may not take this course for further credit unless a different topic is offered.
COURSE DETAILS:
Selected Topics: Political Science Fun and Games
The largest earthquake in history strikes British Columbia, separating Vancouver and Burnaby from the mainland. You and your classmates must restore good governance, security, and civil society amid the chaos. Information will be key to your success, but where do you find what you need? How do you distinguish fact from fiction and convince others that your recommendations are sound? Through several simulations, this course will teach you how to find, evaluate, and use the information resources available to you, while navigating the challenges of reestablishing a society demolished by “the Big One.”
COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:
This course is designed to teach information literacy and basic political science concepts through games and simulations. Information literacy goals include proper citation practice, distinguishing news from opinion, how to read tabular data, how to search library holdings, how to use research data bases like Nexis Uni and the Social Science Citation Index, and how to use research tools, like Zotero.
FASS 223 D300 runs for 5 weeks (sessions on May 7, 14, 21, 28, June 4). The first session is 1 hour, the rest of 4 sessions are 3 hours each. This is a 1 credit course.
You can take more than one FASS Forward 1 credit course, as long as the topic is different. See the other courses here.
Grading
- Pass / Fail 100%
NOTES:
This FASS Forward course is delivered entirely in-person. It is designed to improve your skills for future success and work in this class is expected to be of high quality. A competency-based grading system will be used to assess your academic performance and active participation in all learning activities. That means only a P (pass) or F (fail) will appear on your transcript. There is no numerical equivalent for the final grade, and it does not affect either your grade point average or cumulative grade point average.
- P (pass) means that you have demonstrated your competency in relation to the learning objectives, met all the criteria for the course, and demonstrated the skills you have acquired.
- F (fail) means that you do not receive credit for the course.
Registrar Notes:
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS
SFU’s Academic Integrity website http://www.sfu.ca/students/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating. Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.
Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the university community. Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the university. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the university. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html