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Finally... I'm In The Course Schedule!

seawolf17 Apr 12 2006 09:23 AM

Ever since starting my Student Affairs career eight years ago, I've been trying to get into the classroom to teach a first-year seminar. Something else has continually gotten in the way, mostly scheduling conflicts and restrictive policies regarding who's allowed to teach these courses. But I'm finally in the book for the fall, teaching a one-credit seminar. I know those "College 101"-type seminars can be dreadful, but I'm hoping to make it a lot more worthwhile, and hopefully I can run with it and teach something with a little more meat in the future. We'll see how it goes.

ScarletKnight41 Apr 12 2006 09:57 AM

Excellent - WTG seawolf! I hope you have fun with the course :)

cooby Apr 12 2006 10:09 AM

Do you know yet what you will be teaching?

seawolf17 Apr 12 2006 10:14 AM

GLS (Global Studies) 101 - Introduction to Stony Brook. It's basically a "College 101" course, introducing students to everything that the university offers. It's required for all incoming first-year students, and any time you have a required seminar like that, it can be drudgery -- but hopefully I make the course interesting enough that people keep coming back for more. I don't know what the syllabus will be like yet, but I know that the university developed its own book for the course, so that'll be interesting.

Nymr83 Apr 22 2006 02:32 PM

Your syllabus needs to say "No Beepers, Cell Phones, or Yankee Hats are permitted in the classroom."

Vic Sage Apr 28 2006 12:12 PM

hey, wolfie ... I'm a SUNYSB alum! give my regards to the Bridge To Nowhere...

seawolf17 Apr 29 2006 08:09 PM

Aah, the Bridge To Nowhere is nowhere... they ripped it down a few years ago when they opened the new Student Activities Center, replacing most of the functionality of the old Union. Looks a lot better now.

Vic Sage May 01 2006 01:00 PM

well, it couldn't have looked much WORSE, that's for sure! Do you ever go to I-Con? I started it, you know... 25 years ago.

seawolf17 May 01 2006 01:21 PM

Wow, we really have a legend on our hands! I've actually never made it to I-Con... I've been out of town each time the last two years.

Benjamin Grimm May 01 2006 01:25 PM

For those of us who lived near Stony Brook but didn't attend, what's I-Con?

Vic Sage May 01 2006 02:07 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 11 2006 03:44 PM

I-Con is a convention of "science fiction, fact and fantasy" (a phrase i coined lo those many years ago). SF Conventions are always called "Cons"... and the "I" is for Island, as in Long Island. we thought about calling it "LI-Con" but it might be mispronounced as LICK-on which was obscene. and "I-Con" also has that quasi-mystical homonym going for it, so it seemed like a good idea at the time. Better, certainly, than "Mud-Con" or "Brook-Con", which were also briefly considered. It's a SF convention of great geekitude that sprawls all over the campus (earning it the alternative sobriquet of "Shlep-Con"). I started it 25 years ago. We tried to tap into SUSB's rep as a major science school to get faculty to discuss new issues in the sciences, as well as writers, artists, media guests, etc. here's a link to an article about it: http://www.iconsf.org/archive/icon22/documents/ICONSPAST.doc its kind of amusing to think that something we threw together 25 years ago, mostly in a drunken stupor, is still stumbling along out there.

TheOldMole May 08 2006 09:41 AM

Seawolf -- my daughter does that, at University of Maryland. She's always found it very rewarding. Congratulations.