Dartmouth College Institute for Writing and Rhetoric

Dartmouth College Institute for Writing and Rhetoric

First-year Seminar (FYS) Form #1

INSTRUCTIONS:This form is only for use by those who can’t access the online version of FYS Form #1.

• This form is the first step in the process of approval by the Institute for Writing Rhetoric and the Committee on Instruction.

• Please submit this form by the deadline indicated in the email sent to you by the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric.

• Please fill out this form on your computer by typing into the shaded areas and selecting appropriately from the drop-down boxes, and then save your changes.
• Submit this form via email as an attachment to:
• After the form has been reviewed, you will be contacted by the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric about the next steps, including deadlines to submit additional information and a syllabus. This may take a week or two.

Basic Information Needed for ALL FYS Courses:

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Department or Program:Select from Arts and Humanities DivisionAMEL Asian & Middle Eastern Lang & LitARTH Art HistoryCLST Classical StudiesENGL EnglishFILM Film and Media StudiesFREN FrenchGERM German StudiesITAL ItalianMUS MusicPHIL PhilosophyPORT PortugueseREL ReligionRUSS RussianSART Studio ArtSPAN SpanishTHEA Theater

Select from one divisionSelect from Social Sciences DivisionANTH AnthropologyECON EconomicsEDUC EducationGEOG GeographyGOVT GovernmentHIST HistoryPSYC Psychological & Brain SciencesSOCY Sociology

Select from Science DivisionBIOL Biological SciencesCHEM ChemistryCOSC Computer ScienceEARS Earth SciencesENGS Engineering SciencesMATH MathematicsPHYS Physics & Astronomy

Select from Interdisciplinary ProgramsAAAS African & African American StudiesCOLT Comparative LiteratureENVS Environmental StudiesJWST Jewish StudiesLACS Latin American and Caribbean StudiesLATS Latino StudiesLING Linguistics & Cognitive ScienceNAS Native American StudiesPBPL Public PolicyWGSS Women's, Gender, & Sexuality StudiesStudiesWRIT Writing Program

Term:Select termWinter 2017Spring 2017

Class Timeslot:Select hour9L1010A111222A3A3B6A (no x-period) Please consider a MWF morning timeslot since we generally have too few requests for those, and too many requests for the Tu Th 10A and 2A timeslots.

Instructor:Instructor Email:

Title of Seminar:

Abbreviated Title of Seminar:

(for timetable and transcript, maximum 27 characters including spaces)

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The following questions are only for faculty repeating a previously offered seminar:

Do you want to make changes to yourpreviously-offeredFirst-year Seminar (new distributive or world culture categories, new title, or very different description)?

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No

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Yes

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Course Description to Appear in Online Timetable:

(This box applies only to professors repeating a FYS.)

Please enter a short description of your seminar into the shaded space below. This description is what students will see on the web in timetable when they select seminars. Please include a very brief description of the types of writing assignments in the course to help students get a sense of the course work. Please make clear to students the ways in which your First-year Seminar is a writing course as well as a course in the announced topic.

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