Faculty Expectations

Welcoming to Ifá University! 

I will be your instructor for this course. I wanted to take the time to go over with you all the “house keeping” rules for online learning. Below are the college policies and my faculty expectations. Once you read all; please reply to this thread stating you read and understand the faculty expectations. 

Upholding the Ìwàpẹ̀lẹ́ Code: 

The Pledge
We realize that as part of the Ifá University community, our actions affect those around us. We understand that membership in the Ifá University community is dependent on our commitment to the Ìwàpẹ̀lẹ́ Code, and we proclaim this by signing the Ìwàpẹ̀lẹ́ Pledge, which states:
“I hereby accept the Ifá University Ìwàpẹ̀lẹ́ Code, realizing that it is my duty to uphold the Ìwàpẹ̀lẹ́ Code and the concepts of personal and collective responsibility upon which it is based.”
Upholding the Ìwàpẹ̀lẹ́ Code: Ìwàpẹ̀lẹ́ Council
While the success of the Ìwàpẹ̀lẹ́ Code is dependent upon each of us actively engaging with the Code’s ideals, a community body must carry out some administrative responsibilities. In addition, we may sometimes be unable to resolve conflicts with others, or actions may occur which breach the trust of the community in a particularly serious way.

Ìwàpẹ̀lẹ́ Council’s task is to manage the administrative aspects of the Ìwàpẹ̀lẹ́ Code and to help resolve difficult situations and apparent violations of the community’s trust. Ìwàpẹ̀lẹ́ Council is charged with interpreting the sections of the Code that leave room for flexibility. It is, for example, Ìwàpẹ̀lẹ́ Council’s responsibility to decide if a situation warrants the convening of a trial or if it can be resolved through other means of dialogue and restoration.

Although Ìwàpẹ̀lẹ́ Council trials are not intended as punitive proceedings, there are repercussions for violating the Code. The goals of Ìwàpẹ̀lẹ́ Council proceedings are threefold: to hold any individual, who violated the Code accountable, to educate the individuals involved, and to restore individuals who violated the Code to the Ifá University community. Such proceedings should also take into account the needs of the community. 

Attendance

All students are expected to attend classes regularly and promptly. It is especially important to attend the FIRST meeting of each class. It is there that you will receive much of the information critical to your success in the class. If you are absent from classes or laboratory periods, you are still responsible for the work missed. If you miss a scheduled midterm or final exam, you must obtain your instructor’s approval to take a substitute exam or you will receive a grade of zero for the exam. Four unexcused absences and one will be withdrawn for the course. If you withdraw after the 60% of session and one will receive an F. You can withdraw from the course by Week 3 with no grade penalty and one can re take the course next Quarter.

GRADES
The following grading system is used at Ifá University:

A – excellent 90 and above
B – good, 80 – 89
C – fair, 70 – 79
D – poor, 60 – 69
F – failure less than 60
P – pass, used in courses that run for a year, and in which grades are only recorded at the end of the Summer quarter. Fall, Winter and Spring quarters will have a P grade to indicate satisfactory progress.
W – official withdrawal (no grade value and not calculated)
UW – unofficial withdrawal (no grade value and not calculated)
I – Incomplete (grade following I/ calculated) 

CREDIT HOUR
Online learning courses usually require at least as much time as you would spend taking a campus-based course. You should plan to study at least 2-3 hours a week for each credit. In other words, for each three-credit course, you would study 6-9 hours per week. Since we operate the shorter 8-week quarter system, for a 3-credit class, you can expect to spend 9-12 hours per week studying for this class. The Course will on meet live on Zoom on Sunday. The time 11:00AM.

Grading will be based on the following criteria: 

Class Participation Points 10% 

Students will be expected to engage in dialogue with the instructor and classmates on a regular basis.

Discussion Board Assignment 50% 

Points
Each week students will have to engage in discussions post. Initial posts are due by Wednesday at 11:59PM. Students must reply to two other students by Saturday at 11:59PM. 

Term Paper 10% 

Points
Mid-Term Exam 15%

Final Exam 15%

Total 100% 

Course Description

Introduces students to critically thinking from an Indigenous Yorùbá Religious philosophical orientation. Idáàṣà is the counting of the Òrìṣà, its orature is the foundation of academic subject matter for Priest and Priestess of Òrìṣà.  Through recitation and analysis of Orature students will develop skills to refine one’s moral compass to train as an interdependent community leader who will resolve an array of communal problems for a diverse body of clients.  Students will develop and support ideas; investigate, evaluate, and incorporate appropriate resolutions based on the stories and verses from the implicated Odù. 

General Course Purpose

IDÁ 301 will prepare students for the religious vocation as Divining Priest or Priestess of the Òrìṣà. Students will identify the Odù; the proper names, order, memorize the two chants and apply philosophy indicated within each poem properly to clients; solely based on the implicated wisdom of the poems.  Students will be able to investigate and articulate the 8 parts of each poem.

Course Prerequisites/Corequisites

None

Course Objectives

Goal One: Ifá Kíkí
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to memorize and chant two poems from Ọ̀kànràn, Èjì Òkò, Ògúndá, and Ìrosùn,

1. They will be able to memorize and recount (ìtàn) stories from the Odù Ọ̀kànràn, Èjì Òkò, Ògúndá, and Ìrosùn,
2. They will be able to chant in Yorùbá with vividness, effectiveness while understanding the English translation.

Goal Two: Ẹbọ Rírú

Students who successfully complete this course will be able to explain, describe and inform in expository writing a solution-oriented method to which Òrìṣà (religious deity) should be petitioned to and propitiated for faith-based resolve.

1. Incorporate several Òrìṣà for solutions based on philosophy.
2. Utilize song as means of evocation and invocation of Òrìṣà and other natural elements.
3. Present items for indemnification.  

Goal Three: Ìwàpẹ̀lẹ́

Students who successfully complete this course will be able to analyze and investigate ideas, theories and present them to articulate proper human behavior and moral character.

1. They will be able to create theories of human behavior.
2. Forecast predicted outcomes based on the choice and values.  
3. Guide clients to success by applying implied knowledge of moral character.
4. Produce an expanded consciousness and seek means of harmony with animals, plants, and humans.