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The assignment: "You must select a social-scientific subject and question(s) of your own choosing and design an empirical study through which you could explore the subject and answer the question(s)."
Presentation to about 15 students.
Here is the research guide.
Prof. Hall
15 students
Merrill
9/27/07
Students will write several papers in this course.
Research Guide
Course: ECON 203 Quantitative Models for Economics
Presentation date: 9/26/07
Faculty: Anderson
Number of students: 25 (two sections)
Librarian: Tombarge
Research guide URL: http://info.wlu.edu
Assignment: Students will work in groups to develop a research question, prepare a literature review, collect data and analyze the data through a statistical model that they develop. Students are now working on their research questions and locating potential data sources. They will start their literature review soon.
Course: ECON 360 Money and Banking
Presentation date: 9/26/07
Faculty: Hooks
Number of students: 39 (two sections)
Librarian: Tombarge
Research guide URL: http://library.wlu.edu/research/guides/business/econ360.asp
Assignment: Students will be working on two projects this term. The first is a research paper on a single bank. The second will be to prepare a review of the economy in preparation for a mock meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee. Currently students are only conducting the corporate research on a bank of their own selection.
Prof. Braunschneider
12 students
Fall term
Merrill
Research Guide only
Students are to do oral presentations on their assigned novel (Pamela; Joseph Andrews; Tristram Shandy, Evelina) and hand in an annotated bibliography.
They will also write a 10-12pp research essay later in the term.
A Biology student wanted a "best fit line" for a graph created in Excel. Excel calls this a "trendline." Search the Help section for this term and the instructions are fairly straightforward. In version 2003, create a scatter chart. Select either the chart or the data. A "Chart" menu appears between the "Tools" and the "Windows" menus. The Add Trendline command is under the Chart menu.
Theater 151: Intro to Theatrical Design
Prof. Evans
6 students (juniors and seniors)
9/25/07
Merrill
Students are all in plays for which they need to design stage & costumes. A research log, including a bibliography, is required.
A member of the Politics Department faculty asked me about the availability of speaker-phones on campus for conference-calls in classroom situations. He recently had a favorable experience using one in class.
After consulting with John White, Flash Floyd, and Dana Camper, this may be a more-or-less adequate response:
Some rooms are already set up with speaker phones for conferences calls, including the Chavis Board Room (Commons), Tucker 112, and the Dean's conference room in Huntley Hall.
Dana Camper also has a portable speaker-phone that can be reserved, but it can only be used in a room equipped with an analog phone-line. Off the top of her head, Dana came up with this list of such rooms, in addition to ones listed above: Northen Auditorium, Commons room #345, Stackhouse Theater in the Commons, room #221 in Huntley Hall. There may be others.
Note: The above refers only to classroom capabilities and the undergrad side of campus.
Professor: Dr. Ted Delaney
Date: September 18, 2007
Students : 15
Course Page: http://library.wlu.edu/research/guides/history/History359HistoryoftheAfricanAmericanPeopleto1877.asp
Librarian : Vaughan
This is a writing intensive class.
This is a special presentation for students from various courses.
Profs. Bent, O'Mara, Simpson
about 50 students
9/19/07
Merrill
Philosophy 263: KIERKEGAARD
Prof. Sessions
12 students
9/19/07
Merrill
Three papers are required in this semester.
Research Guide
Course: BUS 340 Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
Presentation date: 9/18/07
Faculty: Pirkle
Number of students: 32 (two sections)
Librarian: Tombarge
Research guide URL: http://library.wlu.edu/wiki/index.php/BusinessAndEconomics/BUS340
Assignment: Students will be preparing a business plan for a start up company.
Prof. Jackson
13 students
9/13/07
Merrill
http://library.wlu.edu/research/guides/humanities/Philosophy256.asp
Prof. Fu
25 students
9/13/07
Merrill
http://library.wlu.edu/research/guides/humanities/LIT218Chinese.asp
http://library.wlu.edu/research/guides/humanities/Art/Courses/Art395.asp
Krzysztof Jasiewicz requested an update of the research guide for this course, which has two sections (37 students).
One interesting thing about this course is that the term research paper is optional -- you do it only if you aspire to a high grade.
Bill Connelly requested an updating of the research guide for his Presidency course.
Smaller papers on issues relating to the presidency are due weekly, with a term paper (15-20 pp.) on the presidential election process due by Thanksgiving.
Rebecca Harris requested that we update her POL 100 research guide.
Approximately 25 students will be working on an assignment in which they must analyze two political science journal articles, one of which cites the other.
Mark Rush asked me to revise and update the existing research guide for his POL 340 course, which has 16 registrants this term, so far.
He has yet to announce the major paper topic(s), but the research always involves the preparation of an annotated bibliography.
Sascha Goluboff and I worked together to prepare a research guide for her new Anthropology of Childhood course, taught this fall. (14 students, thus far)
She prefers to do the classroom presentation herself.