POSC 381 Investigation of Professional Development in Poultry Science
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Expiration Date: 1/1/11
Title changed from Investigations into Career Opportunities for Poultry Science
David Caldwell
845-4288
caldwell@poultry.tamu.edu
REPORT ON PROPOSED W COURSE: POSC 381
We recommend that POSC 381, Investigation of Career Opportunities for Poultry Science Students, be certified as a writing-intensive (W) course for the next four academic years (5/07 to 1/11). We have reviewed a representative syllabus and have determined that the course meets or exceeds the following criteria:
- Percentage of final grade based on writing quality: 100%
- Course content appropriate to the major
- Total number of words: 4000
- Instructor to student ratio for one section: 1:30
Students receive feedback on two-prewriting exercises for their final project as well as on three drafts. The professor and other students provide feedback in structured environments to help students learn how to provide and understand constructive criticism, as well as to help them learn to see their own problems and mistakes for self-revision. Students receive global writing and content-related feedback regarding the entire series of reaction papers (7), which allows them to use instructor feedback to improve successive papers.
