Read about this special course linkage below.
For the Spring 2010 semester, section 048 of ENGL 101, College Writing (four credits), is linked with the one-credit Counseling Center course CNSD 150, Life Skills: Improving Your Social and Emotional Intelligence. The linkage is open to any student who needs to take ENGL 101 and is interested, at the same time, in life skills learning, the subject of the CNSD 150 course (see descriptions below).
To register for this five-credit package, you must co-register for both courses (five credits) by special permission. Please go to the English Department office at 110 Leonard Hall to get special permission. Again, here are the two courses in this linkage and their meeting times:
- CNSD 150, Life Skills: Improving Your Social and Emotional Intelligence. Select one of these two sections:
- CNSD150:01, Thurs., 10:00-10:50, Dr. Kim Weiner, Counseling Center
- CNSD 150:02, Thurs., 11:00-11:50, Dr. Kim Weiner
- ENGL 101:048, College Writing, MWF 9:05-9:55, Dr. Susan Welsh, English Department
The one-credit sections of CNSD 150 that meet on Thursday are thematically linked to the four-credit section of College Writing that meets on MWF. Both courses will explore the idea and practice of mindfulness. This linkage should appeal to students interested in personal growth and self-development, and especially in skills that develop the ability to focus, to regulate feelings, improve relationships, and communicate effectively. Mindfulness practices have been adapted for many professional contexts, from education to medicine.
In CNSD 150, Life Skills: Improving Your Social and Emotional Intelligence, students will work with Dr. Kim Weiner, associate professor in Counseling, to learn the practice of mindfulness (how to do it) and to review research on its benefits and applications. Students will also learn about emotions and their regulation: how to recognize, label, and effectively communicate emotions.
Like all other ENGL 101 sections, this section teaches writing and reading as integrated skills. However, in this section, taught by Dr. Susan Welsh, associate professor of English, students will experience mindful practices adapted for instruction in writing: regular journal keeping for example, and reflection on writing and reading processes. The course also introduces students to rhetoric as a mindful art that develops awareness of one’s subject, one’s audience, one’s own writing processes, and one’s reasons for addressing an audience. Students will combine reading and writing to produce four projects in four genres: personal narrative, explanation, argument, and reflection.
