| IDS1930:
Introduction to Venture Studies: First Year Seminar | 3 | Introduction to Venture Studies: First Year Seminar (VSFYS) applies a VS-format to the academic teaching of discipline-specific concepts, guided by faculty within the respective discipline, and is directed toward first term students. This format emphasizes techniques for a successful transition to UNF, encourages the development of critical thinking skills through the pedagogy of Reflective Judgment, and includes an introductory community-based learning assignment. Whereas each VSFYS course has a different subject, the courses share identical methodology in their delivery.
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| IDS2931:
Venture Studies: Community Based Special Topics | v. 3-9 | Variable Topics in Community Based Learning. This VS-formatted General Education class is open to all students. Regardless of the discipline-specific topic covered, the course continues to develop critical thinking skills through the pedagogy of Reflective Judgment and continues to apply classroom learning to real world situations through a deeper community-based learning focus.
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| IDS3951:
(GW) Venture Studies Threshold Project | v. 1-3 | The Threshold Project, the third part of the Venture Studies Program, is an opportunity for students to demonstrate their facility with Reflective Judgment, the mode of intellectual engagement that underwrites the Program. Threshold Project courses will explore a significant and complex question raised within the student's Venture Studies course work or within the student's General Education experience. The project will demonstrate that the student understands the multidimensional nature of any significant question, and will point toward future study necessary to more fully understand the complexity of the question. The project is not intended to answer the question, but to explore the dimensions and implications of the question from the perspective of at least two disciplines. Students positioned at this threshold between Venture Studies and more specialized work within a major will make explicit their recognition that any seemingly complete answer to a question is always situated within the terms and limits of a discipline or a particular world view, and they are bidden to be both expert within their chosen field's terms and aware of their limits. Gordon Rule additional writing credit.
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