All of the Assignments, Journals, and Reflections together add up to 100 points. See the Course Schedule for due dates. There are no formal papers, tests, midterms, or final exams in this class.
This is more for you: Do you discourage test taking in academia generally speaking?
Academic writers actively help readers understand their ideas. They take care with their word choice, sentence structure, and the development and relationship of ideas. The writing is as clear as possible. Points are spelled out.
There was a cartoon of two women; one a muslim one with her body covered, and a white women with a bikini and sunglasses. I appreciate this part of the syllabus because it outlines the level of detail required to explain one's idea and individual perspective.
Participation Assignments are your primary weekly work in the class through which you will read texts and do related exercises, discussing them with classmates.
This reminds me of Lara Boyd's ted talk and how she Acknowledges healthy brain exercises. Activities together as classmates based off of a variety of interesting texts sounds like amazing weekly brain exercising!
sharpen analysis and argumentation skills through a variety of expressive modes.
The thought of innovating the way I participate in discourse and analyze discourse is exciting. My interpretation is we will be pushing ourselves to learn outside of our comfort zone in different ways throughout the semester.
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
This book generally seems up my alley, especially with the environmental disaster aspect! I recently read the book: I Cheerfully refuse and I imagine there will be some similarities.
The Collected Schizophrenias
I've always seem Schizophrenia as a taboo subject amongst societal discourse so I'm very curious and excited for this reading.