Fall 2009 Course Syllabus
Fall 2009 Tentative Schedule (Revised)
Session 1 Presentation (Mon., 10-5)
Learning Style and Terperament Assessment (Mon., 10-5)
Session 2 Presentation (Mon., 10-7)
Project Workplan
Jonathan Kozol, "Life on the Mississippi: East St. Louis, Illinois"
Session 3 Presentation (Mon., 10-12)
Handout: Keeping a Journal
Handout: Project Journal Format
Group Discussion Points: Kozol
Bill Gates, "Business @ the Speed of Thought"
Jonathan Kozol, "Shame of the Nation"
[You Tube]
Session 4 Presentation (Wed., 10-14)
Group Discussion Points: Kozol
& Gates
Khan
& Eichler, "The Immortal Waste"
Session 5 Presentation (Mon., 10-19)
Group Project (in-class): Keep Out Sign for Nuclear Waste Dump
Stacey, "Land of Dreams and Disasters"
Ong, "Domestic Relations: The Reconfiguration of Family Life"
Session 6 Presentation (Wed., 10-21)
Session 7 Presentation (Mon., 10-26)
Group Discussion Points: "Ong Article"
Sagan, "The Warming of the World"
Session 8 Presentation (Wed., 10-28)
Group Discussion Points: "Stacey Article"
Group Discussion Points: "An Inconvenient Truth"
Session 9 Presentation (Mon., 11-2)
Session 10 Presentation (Wed., 11-4)
Session 11 Presentation (Mon., 11-9)
Session 12 No Class Meeting; Veterans' Day (Wed., 11-14)
Session 13 Presentation (Mon., 11-16)
Final Presentation Shell
Reading: "Overcoming Employee Resistance to Technology"
Reading: "Easing Fear of New Technology"
Reading: "Resistence to Technology: Examples from Health Care"
Session 14 Presentation (Wed., 11-18)
Reading: "Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making"
Session 15 Student Presentations (Mon., 11-23)
Session 16 No Class Meeting; Faculty Furlough Day (Wed., 11-25)
Session 17 Student Presentations (Mon., 11-30)
Session 18 Student Presentations (Mon., 12-2)