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Course Syllabus Page 1
Course Syllabus
Course Information
ED 5345 Chess II - Institutional & Cultural Contexts of Chess
Instructor Contact Information
Dr. Alexey Root, 940-484-2265 (home), aroot@utdallas.edu, office hours by appointment. If you need assistance with registration, add/drop, or picking up the course CD, please contact administrative assistant for this course is:
MICHELE R Brown
 michelebrown@utdallas.edu Administrative Assistant I Interdisciplinary Studies 972-883-2323 Office - HH 2.110  Mailstop - HH30
Course Pre-requisites, Co-requisites, and/or Other Restrictions
(including required prior knowledge or skills)
Students must have access to the Internet and to their UTD email during the semester that they are enrolled in Chess Online. Students do not need prior knowledge of chess.
Course Description
 3 semester hours. A consideration of the role of chess historically and in contemporary culture. This course explores chess research and educational resources. Analysis of the interactions of women and chess through the ages. Each student prepares a proposal, based on the curriculum model of Ralph W. Tyler, for chess at an institution. No previous knowledge of chess is required.
Student Learning Objectives/Outcomes
ED 5345 students learn the history of chess and consider its implications. Students summarize research and discuss resources to teach the game of chess. Students demonstrate knowledge of chess through playing and notating a game of chess with a classmate opponent. Students write a proposal for a chess  program for an institution. Students choose funding opportunities to support that program ED 5345 students
 special project is writing a paper about women in chess, debating theses in Marilyn Yalom
s
 Birth of the Chess Queen: A History
.
Required Textbooks and Materials
 
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Required Books (all students):
Course texts are on reserve at the UTD McDermott library. Required and suggested course texts are available for sale at the UTD bookstore, Off Campus books, and through online book retailers. Exception: Tim Redman
s book may only be available from: Off Campus Books 561 W. Campbell Road, #201 Richardson, TX 75080 972-907-8398 fax 972-907-0311 These references are in APA style citation, which you will use for your papers for this course.
The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
 is abbreviated as
APA
 throughout this syllabus and the online course.
For a quick way to format references in APA citation, go to http://citationmachine.net/. Other APA instruction will be within this course.
 
ISBN numbers are not listed when using APA citation, but are listed here for your convenience. Redman, T. (Ed.). (2006).
Chess and education: Selected essays from the Koltanowski conference
. Dallas, TX: Chess Program. ISBN10: 0-9786742-0-0, ISBN13: 978-0-9786742-0-5 Root, A. W. (2009).
 Read, write, checkmate: Enrich literacy with chess activities
. Westport, CT: Teacher Ideas Press. ISBN-10: 1591587549. Root, A. W. (2010).
 People, place, checkmates: Teaching social studies with chess
. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited. ISBN-10: 1591587549. Students receive a
 First Lessons in Chess
© CD, available free from UTD Interdisciplinary Studies,
MICHELE R Brown
 or (972) 883-2323.
Required book for ED 5345 students:
Yalom, M. (2004).
 Birth of the chess queen: A history
. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN: 0060090642
Suggested Course Materials
American Psychological Association. (2009).
 Publication manual of the American  Psychological Association
(6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author. ISBN: 1-4338-0561-8, ISBN 13: 978-1-4338-0561-5. Root, A. W. (2006).
 Children and chess: A guide for educators
. Westport, CT: Teacher Ideas Press. ISBN: 1591583586. Although Web sites and computer software display two-dimensional chess sets and boards, I recommend that each Chess Online student acquire a chess
 
 board with
 
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algebraic notation on its borders and a chess set. You can find such chess boards and sets at www.uschess.org or  www.amchesseq.com. 
Technical Requirements
ED 5345 will be offered through eLearning. For information about eLearning, please go to http://www.utdallas.edu/oee/distance/index.html
Assignments & Academic Calendar
Each Unit takes about two weeks if an ED 5345 student follows the 16-week schedule. Each unit takes about one week if an ED 5345 student follows the second 8-week schedule. It is highly recommended that each student register early for the courses so that he or she may follow the 16-week schedule. Your course will be officially listed as a 2nd 8 weeks course by UTD, but these two different schedule options (16-week and 2nd 8 weeks) are offered within your course by your instructor. Schedules are stated on the Course Calendar, a separate document from this syllabus. Each student completes assignments according to the Course Calendar schedule (16-week or 8-week) that he or she elects to follow when first in contact with the instructor. You must check the Course Calendar (a separate document created for each semester) for specific due dates. All assignments within a unit must be completed by midnight at the end of that unit. There are no exams in the course. Since this course is online, the students read my
lecture
” for each unit
. Students also have reading assignments for each unit, and must summarize and analyze those readings in threaded discussions. By participating fully in each Discussion Board question, you will be, in effect, writing parts of your Paper #1. You will be able to re-
use postings you’ve done from the Discu
ssion Board in your Paper #1. This course is offered through UTD eLearning.
Unit One:
Here are the objectives for this Unit, and the points you earn for achieving each objective. More details about each objective can be found by reading the pages of the online Unit. I. Students will acquire the course texts and CD. Students will read chapters 2 and 3 of Root (2009) and compare how chess is taught in that book to how it is taught in chapters on the same topic on the CD. From his or her UTD email, the student will email the instructor a three paragraph response. (50 points) II. Students will select an institution about which to write a Paper #1 (program proposal) to improve, or develop, a chess program there, and, from their UTD email account, email their choice to the UTD instructor. The instructor will email back and forth with the student until a clear agreement is reached. (20 points) III. Students post a self-introduction on the Discussion Board, in Discussion A. The self-introduction will tell the student
s chess level, major in college (or degree earned), job, and other general introductory information. (30 points) IV. Students know all the rules of chess. Read Root (2010, chapter 5) to review the rules of chess. (0 points)
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