Week 4: July 28-Aug 1

For Wednesday, July 30. READ UNIT 2 (All). Create questions for discussion.

For Friday, August 1. Go to your major's departmental office. Gather a brochure and any information regarding the major that they will give you. Then, type a 1-page summary of the purpose of major and the major objectives of the major. Discuss how this process might affect how you think about not only this discipline, but about the world.

Summer Class: Week 3 (July 21-25)

Tues: look over UNIT 4. We will discuss and do in-class note-taking/test-taking exercises.
Wednesday: look over UNIT 4. We will finish test-taking and talk about memory.
Thursday: read UNIT 5, 129-147 (Fulkerson, Burtchaell, Raspberry). LIBRARY ASSIGNMENT DUE AT MIDNIGHT.
Friday: read Freakonomics chapter 3. Group #2 is presenting.

Also, before next Monday, you will need to do two things outside of class and the books.

1. Click this link, take the short survey, and bring your four-letter code to class.

2. Go to the On Reserve section of the library (Cravens 2nd floor) and read Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat, pp 1-17. You will have to read it there or make a copy. It will be filed under my name and you will have to ask for it at the desk. Group #3, you will present on this on Monday, July 28.

Summer Class: Week 2

Class,

For Wed, July 16: read UNIT 3: McCaslin, Stoll, and Goodman

For Thurs, July 17: read UNIT 3: Minnick, Krutch; also read "Why I Am Not Going to Buy A Computer" by Wendell Berry

For Fri, July 18: read Freakonomics chapter 2; Group #1 Summary/Question presentation; QUIZ 1