Ignite Seminar

Learning Outcomes

Students who complete this course will be able to:

Recognize that both personal and social context shapes all learning
Characterize how the experience of learning through a distinct disciplinary or interdisciplinary mode of inquiry shapes knowledge of ourselves, or communities, and our world
Reflect on learning experiences to arrive at a deeper understanding of who they are as scholars and citizens
Evaluate the ways in which new knowledge illuminates routes towards future action, and identify possible actions one might take in the service of humanity
Identify, evaluate, and utilize a variety of SLU library source materials to complete a course assignment

SLO 1: All SLU graduates will be able to examine their actions and vocations in dialogue with the Catholic, Jesuit tradition
SLO 2: All SLU graduates will be able to integrate knowledge from multiple disciplines to address complex questions
SLO 3: ALL SLU graduates will be able to assess evidence and draw reasoned conclusions
SLO 5: All SLU graduates will be able to analyze how diverse identities influence their lives and the lives of others

Essential Criteria (dragged) 4.pdf

Ignite Seminars have certain required elements, certain optional elements, and certain limitations.

All Ignite seminars must include these elements:

a seminar topic shaped by the professor's intellectual passions and disciplinary interests
a personal approach to inquiry, formed by the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm
an information literacy component, designed in partnership with a SLU subject-area librarian
a student "artifact"—an assignment that demonstrates students' personal engagement with the course material

Ignite Seminars may not carry any additional Core attributes (e.g., Writing Intensive, Reflection-In-Action, etc.)

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