Fall 2008 Ethics in Sport

Bradley Bleck Office: 5-157 Phone: 533-3572 email: bradbATspokanefallsDOTedu Josh Westermann Office: 5-153 Phone: 533-3670 email: joshwATspokanefallsDOTedu

Class Times: Monday through Thursday 10:30 a.m. to12:45 p.m. Bradley's Office Hours: Most mornings before class and daily 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.; and by appt; Josh's Office Hours: Daily 8:00 to 9:00 and by appt

Required Texts

• Sport in Contemporary Society: An Anthology by D. Stanley Eitzen, Seventh edition
• Book Club and Independent Reading books (not in bookstore--more on these later)
• Rhetoric and Composition Wiki Handbook (We just might add to this as we work through the course material.)
  • or Wadsworth Handbook for offline work (optional)
• notebook for reading journals
• memory stick, usb drive, thumb drive, call it what you will, to hold your work if you lack network access

Official Course Description: English 94: This course sharpens students’ skills in textbook study, note taking and time management as well as in memory improvement, reading comprehension and classroom survival skills. Students also may be introduced to methods which increase reading rates and develop vocabulary. English 151: Students learn strategies to become independent learners and critical thinkers. Emphasis is on understanding how memory works and improving note taking, test taking, textbook reading, time management and vocabulary. The course cannot be taken simultaneously with ENG 93 or 94. Prerequisite: Recommended placement score : COMPASS 80 or above, ASSET 41 or above. English 98: This course offers students individually tailored composition skills through work on paragraphs and essays, sentence structure and mechanics. It is offered in either lecture or lab mode. In the lab mode, the content moves from the paragraph to the essay with emphasis on structure and mechanics, and students earn 5 credits. Students may enroll in the same lab course no more than three quarters regardless of the number of hours for which they enroll. Grading option: Pass/fail. English 99: Students review paragraph development and write several essays. Principles governing sentence structure and punctuation are emphasized. This course may be taken twice for credit. Prerequisite: 2.0 grade in ENG 97, appropriate placement score, or permission of instructor.

Unofficial Course Description: Spent too much time working on your sport and not enough time hitting the books? Let us help you prepare for academic success by developing your study and writing skills while examining the role of sport in your life and society. The course is intended primarily for CCS student athletes, but if you want to bulk up your study and writing skills, this is the course for you! The thematic structure of the course, while developed primarily for student-athletes, applies to the situations all students find themselves in. In this class, you are expected to think and write about the ethical considerations in sport, education, your life and the manner in which the three overlap. Each of us must make ethical decisions, big and small, on a daily basis. We also make judgments about the ethics-related decisions made by those around us. By examining those decisions in an ethical context, along with the obligations, expectations and the ramifications you face because of them, we hope to better equip you to live a life guided by ethical guidelines you can make sense of and maybe even explain.

In this class, you will need internet access (campus, home or work), an open mind (but not so open everything might fall out), the ability to create time to get your work done, a willingness to learn and a sense of adventure.

Plagiarism Policy: As with the rest of the College, we take and treat the issue of plagiarism seriously. There are two ways we view plagiarism: it is either intentional or unintentional. When plagiarism is unintentional, as the result of needing to learn the necessary conventions, we will work with you so you understand and learn how to properly cite sources and avoid these concerns. Intentional plagiarism, on the other hand, will result in your failing the course on the first instance it is detected. Intentional plagiarism includes any form of intentional cheating or passing off the work of another as your own. This could mean you try to pass of something you copied on the internet or form a book or magazine or other source as your own work, or you had someone do your work for you. When we document such instances of plagiarism, you will receive an 'F' for the class and an incident report will be filed with the Associate Dean of Student Services. We certainly hope nothing of this sort will happen and have constructed the class in a way that makes it unlikely, but we know that some students will put more effort into just getting by rather than learning, and it's this sort of student to whom this policy will most likely apply.

Plagiarism; The Law: Cheating: WAC 132Q-04-060

1. Any student who, for the purpose of fulfilling an assignment or task required by the faculty as part of the student’s program of instruction, shall knowingly tender any work product that the student fraudulently represents to the faculty as the student’s work product, shall be deemed to have cheated. Cheating shall be cause for disciplinary action.
2. Any student who aids or abets the accomplishment of cheating as defined in subsection (1) of this section shall also be subject to disciplinary action.

We reserve the right to change this syllabus to better meet the needs of the class. Participation in this course indicates acceptance of all course requirements found in the syllabus and other course materials.