FRS 002 — Sec. 020 — (2 unit) — CRN 53608 — T 12:10-1:30pm — Alder Hall Lounge
Exploring Writing and Research in African American and African Studies

Instructor: Moradewun Adejunmobi, Department of African American and African Studies, College of Letters and Science

Description: Goals are to enhance student writing skills and to provide an introduction to research techniques, thereby increasing the student's confidence in their ability to do library research and to write a well thought out and well written research paper.

Format: The seminar will meet for one hour and 20 minutes each Friday at noon to include weekly faculty and guest lectures, library research, brief in-call and out-of-class writing assignments, class discussion, and relevant reading assignments. There is no text for the course. Students will prepare a 5 page research paper. Grading: Grading will be based on the following: 5 page paper (40%), written assignments (20%) and classroom participation (40%).

About the Instructor: Dr. Moradewun Adejunmobi is Associate Professor of African American and African Studies and French. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Ibada in West Africa in African Literature and French. Her fields of interest include: Literature, Contemporary African Culture, the African Diaspora, Francophone Studies and Sociolinguistics. Recently Dr. Adejunmobi traveled to Ghana in West Africa with a group of UCD students to teach a 4-week 8 unit course entitled, Culture and Development in an African Nation – she will be repeating this academic opportunity in the summer of 2005.