HON 110 Reading


	Honors Scholars Program

HON 110-304:

Honors Freshman Seminar:

The University Experience and the Life of the Mind

Section Theme: The Internet as a Community
Ms. Sue Cody

FALL 2006

Readings & Reading Reactions

You are expected to purchase one required textbook for this class:

Kidder, T. (2004.) Mountains Beyond Mountains. New York: Random House.

The other required readings for this class are available through the library’s course reserve system. A full bibliography can be found at http://library.uncw.edu/web/faculty/codys/HON110/Honors110-06Bibliography.htm .

To locate the readings, go to the library’s home page http://library.uncw.edu. First, set up a PIN (password) on your library record:

Click on "My library account."

"Enter your last name, ID number (no spaces or hyphens) and the PIN you want to use.

Your PIN can be letters or numbers or a combination of letters and numbers.

After confirming your PIN (you'll be asked to enter it 2 more times), click "Start Over."

Now you are ready to go to the Course Reserve system.

Click on Reserves in the left side of the page.
On the Reserves page, click on the green "Reserves" button.
On the next page, click on "Electronic Reserves and Reserves Pages."
On the subsequent page, you can either select my name as Instructor or Honors from the Department list. (Select HON 110 from the list of Honors courses.)
After "accepting" the copyright notice, the list of readings displays. The items labeled "Adobe Acrobat (PDF)" or "Web/OPAC Link" are available full-text online. Those that are labeled "Hard copy reference with link" will bring up a library catalog record showing the call number and availability of the book. These books can be checked out for 2-hours at a time from the library Circulation Desk.

Please be a good citizen and return the books on time so others can also read the material. If you have trouble getting the material, let me know as soon as the problem arises.

Reading Reactions:

Reading can be a rather passive activity (although not as passive as watching TV). Thinking and writing about what you have read will help you comprehend and remember it better, and give you an opportunity to examine your own reaction to what each author is saying. Writing helps you organize your thoughts and express them clearly and articulately. This will improve your ability to fully participate in discussion and build your confidence in writing and logically discussing issues in all of your classes.

As part of your participation in class, you will be asked to react to the reading in one of the following ways:

Bring a one page TYPED reaction summarizing what you learned from the reading and explaining why you agree or disagree with the author or how it relates to your own experience.
Bring three questions TYPED relating to the reading to bring up for class discussion. These questions may highlight where you think the author should have provided more information, where you think the argument is not clear or valid, or other questions that will inspire discussion.
Write in your journal on some aspect of the reading.

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