Learning Goals and Assignments
Learning Goals and Assignments:
• To consider a single cultural and political topic (“oversharing”) from the vantage point of many academic disciplines, with emphasis on research opportunities and methodologies in multiple fields
• To gain familiarity with the major research resources in Liberal Studies
• To practice facilitating class discussion by crafting discussion questions about the seminar reading material, and to practice engaging with the questions posed by your classmates
• To complete original research in a topic related to the course theme, and to write a full-length seminar paper on the theme
• To gain practice working on an anthology of papers as editors and contributors, and in collaboration with another section of “Introduction to Liberal Studies.”
Assignments:
Blogging Assignments and Responses (20%)
Final Paper Workshop Participation (20%)
Final Paper: 60%
