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Tutorials
In the tutorial every entering student explores a topic of interest to the student and the instructor in a small group, discussion-intensive setting. The objectives of the tutorial are to illuminate methods of inquiry rather than to cover topics comprehensively, focusing particularly on writing, critical reading, oral communication, and information literacy skills. In addition, the tutorial initiates the process of planning for a liberal education at Grinnell through advising conversations between students and their instructors. By promoting close working relationships between tutorial instructors and their students and by combining the roles of instructor and academic adviser, the College provides students with academic advisers attuned to the interests and abilities of their advisees.
A tutorial (4 credits) is required of all students who enter Grinnell as first-year students and of all transfer students below third-year student standing whose previous work does not qualify them for an exemption. A student must complete the tutorial with a grade of C or higher to meet the tutorial graduation requirement and to be eligible to enroll in a "Plus-2" or independent project. Students who receive a D or F in the tutorial must earn a grade of C or better in a course designated or approved by the dean's office as Intensive Writing (IW).
Tutorials are offered only in the first semester.
The following tutorials are offered in 2008 - 09:
• Russia in Revolution: Literature, Art, Film, Armstrong - Russian
• Arctic Thaw and the Earth Systems, Aspler - Physics
• August Wilson's Literary Legacy: "The Pittsburgh Cycle," Barlow - English
• "I am neither from here nor from there": Immigrant Identities, Benoist -
Spanish
• The Price of the Ticket: Race and American Political Development,
Bensonsmith - Political Science
• Walls, Door, and Mirrors: Immigration Policies and Politics in the
Contemporary United States, V. Brown - History
• Love Desired: The Trouble with Love in German Literature, Byrd - German
• The Power of Maps, Carter - Anthropology
• The Sistine Chapel, Chasson - Art
• Humanities I: The Ancient Greek World, J. Cummins - Philosophy
• Technology and Place: Transportation, Communication, Computation,
Davis - Computer Science
• Secular, Spiritual, Religious? T. Dobe - Religious Studies
• Autism Explained, Ellis - Psychology
• Numbers, C. French - Mathematics and Statistics
• The Ring of the Nibelung, Gaub - Music
• Color, Culture, and Class, Gibel Mevorach - Anthropology
• African American Literary Ties to Russian Intellectual Thought in the 19th and 20th Century, Greene - Russian
• Literature, Intertextuality, and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials,
Herold - Russian
• Community Organizing: Empowering People, Effecting Change,
C. Hunter - Sociology
• The Onion, Sarah Silverman, and Flatulence: Why are Funny Things Funny?
Hutchison - Education
• Communicating about Global Warming to Facilitate Social Change,
K. Jacobson - Biology
• Ghost Stories, Kapila - English
• The Language of Color: Practice and Perception in Culture and Art,
Kluber - Art
• Place and Space: Through Process to Product, Levandoski - Chemistry
• The Uses of Introspection, Lopatto - Psychology
• Humanities 101: The Ancient World: Homer and Fifth-Century Athens,
Mease - Theatre
• From Text to Image: The French New Wave and the Transformation of Cinema,
P. Moisan - French
• Economics Goes to the Movies, Powell - Economics
• Trouble Helix: How Modern Genetics Has Changed Our View of Humanity,
Praitis - Biology
• The Making of Human Rights, Prevost - History
• Genealogies, Rietz - Religious Studies
• Almost Human, M. Schimmel - Chinese and Japanese
• Infinity, Shuman - Mathematics and Statistics
• The Scientific Gold Rush: Prescription Drugs, Sieck - Chemistry
• Computers: Facts, Misconceptions, and Ethical Issues,
Walker - Computer Science
• Am I a Caveman? Imagining the Human Past, Whittaker - Anthropology
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