Week 9: Link to Human Metrics

Take the Jung typology test by clicking here. Please print or write down your 4-letter code and bring it to class on Thursday (3/26).

Spring 09: Week 8

See Freakonomics author Stephen Levitt present his (and Venkatesh's) data on crack gangs.

For Thurs, Mar 19
Read Ch 3 Freakonomics, QUIZ 4
Group 1 presents

Spring 09 Week 5 (Feb 23-27)

Tuesday, Feb 24
CLASS IN THE KENTUCKY BUILDING!

Thursday, Feb 26
Read Chapter 2 in Freakonomics which attempts to answer the question: What do the KKK and real estate agents have in common?

QUIZ #3, too.

Spring 09 Week 4 (Feb 16-20)

Tuesday, Feb 17: MEET IN HELM-CRAVENS LIBRARY! Come to Java City at regular class time and we will go to the library workshop in Helm 6 together.

Thursday, Feb 19: Read Phelps essay in Thinking Your Way to Success (pages 11-15).

Also read Thomas Friedman's intro to The World Is Flat (1-17). It is on reserve in the Cravens Library. Go to the 2nd Floor VPAL and ask for it.

Finally, read Wendell Berry's short piece entitled, "Why I Am Not Going to Buy A Computer." Pay close attention to his criteria for "good technology" at the end.

QUIZ #2!

Spring 09 Week 3 Assignments

For Tues, Feb 10
Read UNIT 3, pp 67-81 (Essays by McCaslin, Stoll, Goodman).

For Thurs, Feb 12
Read Freakonomics, Intro and Ch 1
QUIZ #1!

Pollan, "Farmer In Chief"

Please read the following article (14 pp), fill out the thinking guide we talked about in class, and bring it with you to class on Tues, February 3.

Michael Pollan, "Farmer In Chief, " New York Times Magazine (9 October 2008).

Enjoy!

Semester Recap

Here's a list of major topics from our course to help you consolidate ideas and identify topics for discussion in your final paper.

Critical Thinking Model

Purpose of Education

Time/Life/Energy Management (Time/Food Log, Time=Life, Priority Evaluation)

Library Workshops/Assignments (Critical Article review)

Technology (Libraries, Friedman, Berry, Communication vs. Conversation, text messaging, etc)

Learning Skills/Assessment (reading, notes, tests, strategies assignment)

Freakonomics (presentations, Morality v Economics, Incentives [3 types], Info Assymetry, Conv Wisdom, Correlation v Causation, Positive v Normative Analysis)

Gen Ed (philosophy, College v University, advising, scheduling, majors, career paper)

Engagement (QEP, efficacy, election, voting, electoral college, democracy, final paper)

Diversity (Maps, regionalism, Southerners, dialect, stereotypes, WKU demographics, Reed: My Tears…)

Environment and Experience

Health and Wellness (Sleep, diet, exercise, fast food, campus meal plans, sex/conventional wisdom, Schlosser: Fast Food Nation)