Farming Today for Tomorrow
A Seminar Series Concerning
Issues of Sustainable Agriculture
1. Attend and participate in the class sessions
2. One-page Lecture Papers (eight of nine required)
Students
taking this class for credit (one-credit, pass/no credit) are required to write
one-page perspective papers on eight of the nine lectures.
These papers are not to be a synopsis of what was said, but your thoughts on what
was said – how does it relate to your past experience, to something else
you’ve studied or read about, to conversations you’ve had with others.
These should take no more than an hour to write.
We want these papers to be well written in terms of message conveyed,
grammar, sentence structure, etc., but do not want you spending extensive
amounts of time in writing them. Papers
are due the week following a lecture and should be handed in at the beginning or
end of class. The final lecture
paper is due by 5 p.m. on Friday, March 16, 2001.
The format for the papers is this - 12-font, Times New Roman, one-inch
margins on all sides, single spaced, indented paragraph starts, lecture title
and your name centered at top.
3.
Four-page Term Paper
In
addition, we want you to write a longer “term paper” on a topic or issue
that you heard about in the class that is especially of interest to you.
This paper should be four pages long, use the same format as outlined
above and have at least five references (popular press articles, journal
articles, web pages, etc.), no more than two of which maybe web sites.
Use the American Society of Agronomy Publications
Handbook and Style Manual (1998 edition) as a guide for proper reference
citation. A copy is on reserve in
the Crop and Soil Science Advising Office Library, ALS 3005.
The four-page paper is due by 5 p.m. on Monday, March 5, 2001 but may be
turned in at any time. Term papers
may be turned in during any class or in Crop Science Building Room 131.
4. Discussion Sessions
We
also have scheduled two discussion sessions to be held outside of class time.
The first will be on Monday, January 8 and the second on Monday, February
12. Both sessions will run from 5 until 5:30 p.m. – immediately
after class. These sessions will be
open discussions and are intended to give you class information, an opportunity
to talk about what you have heard in class and to have questions answered.
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