Assignments
There are four major types of assignments in this class.
Please visit this link for detailed instructions for how to write your S/R papers.
- Attendance & Participation
- Misc
- S/R papers
- Midterm Assessment
- Semester Interview Project
(15%) Attendance & Participation
(2%) Misc
- Misc Assignment #1: Student Preferred Email Form: please visit this form and enter your information (due Friday, February 10, 2017, noon).
- Misc Assignment #2: Semester Project Topic survey (due Tues, March 7, 2017)
(40%) Weekly Summary/Response papers (S/R papers)
There are total 16 weeks, but no papers are due for Wk1, Wk 9, Wk11, Wk12, or Wk16 so there are 11 weeks with assigned readings. I will only count 7 S/R papers-- in other words, you may skip writing papers for any 4 weeks you choose. Below are the dates for when S/R papers are due.Please visit this link for detailed instructions for how to write your S/R papers.
- Wk1: no S/R paper assigned
- Wk2: Th, 2/9 (you may include reference to Aristotle)
- Wk3: Th, 2/16
- Wk4: Th, 2/23
- Wk5: Th, 3/2
- Wk6: Th, 3/9
- Wk7: Th, 3/16
- Wk8: Th, 3/23
- Wk9: no S/R paper assigned (movie)
- Wk10: Th, 4/6
- Wk 11: Spring Break
- Wk 12: Spring Break cont'd
- Wk13: Th, 4/27
- Wk14: Th, 5/4
- Wk15: Th, 5/11
- Wk16: no S/R paper assigned, nor accepted
(3%) Midterm Assessment (Wk8)
The structure of the midterm is still being decided, but will be either Week 7 or Week 8.(40%) Semester Interview Project instructions
- (4%) Part 1: Ethics Quiz
- Wk3, 2/14 - Workshop #1: Ethics
- read ethics chapter
- take quiz online quiz
- (1%) Part 2: Semester Project Survey
- Wk6, 3/7 - Workshop #2: Questionnaire
- Take survey about project topic
- in-class workshop - create a questionnaire, practice interviewing
- Final Questionnaire
- (5%) Part 3: R Names & Schedule Interviews: due Thu, March 23
- Turn in names of Respondents & Scheduled interviews
- (30%) Part 4: Conduct Interviews and Write Interview Summaries due Thu, April 27
- Wk7-Wk12: Interviews + Respondent Summaries
- download and print Informed Consent Form
- write Respondent Summaries
- submit Respondent Basics Form
- (10%) Part 5: Workshop #4: in-class discussion about interviews
- Wk14, Th, 5/11 - Workshop #3: in-class discussion about interviews- share with each other what you've found
- go over data on Respondent Basics Form
- (50%) Part 6: final packet and paper - due last day of class