First Year Seminar G114:
Investigations Across the Curriculum:
Reality and the
Spring 2013
Meesh McCarthy
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Instructor: Meesh
McCarthy Office location: Academic Support Programs,
CC-1-1300 617-287-6550 Office hours: Tuesdays 11:30-12:00, Thursdays 8:45-9:15 and for a few minutes after
class, and by appointment Peer Mentor: Thary Lim (Terry's e-mail address is on our class list) |
Library Contact: Janet DiPaolo Healey Library 617-287-5939 FYS G114's |
Academic Advisor: Teresa Goyette Academic Advising CC-1-1100s 617-287-5500 |
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Course materials: Mixed-Media-Message
and Final Paper Instructions Library
Research/Final Paper Sources Peer
Review Three |
Student-authored materials: Unit Two sources chart
(e-mailed directly) Copyright (Creative
Commons) form |
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Lab instructions: |
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Tuesday,
February 14
Much
of today's initial lab will be dedicated to sharing material that you will need
to complete your first papers. You will need to work independently to complete
each item on the list below.
Save
a bookmark for this website on your USB key, floppy disk, etc.
Log
on to our wikispace. Click the wikispace link above to start.
After
you have a wikispace account, each of you will need to contribute
1) your definitions of a term that could work as an opposite for reality
2) a paragraph from your Zinn double entry which describes the chapter
3) a paragraph from your Mann double entry about the individual
section of 1491 that you read and how
it connects to "Holmberg's
Mistake"
In
each entry, be sure to cite sources–authors, page numbers, etc.–as necessary.
Homework: Complete
the introduction/position paragraphs of the First Paper.
Tuesday, February 26
Complete
the peer review which is linked above.
Use
your annotation of the "Growing Up Tethered" chapter from Turkle's Alone Together to respond to the
following new question on our wikispace (Note that the question itself refers
to a chapter that you did not read, and the chapter which was not assigned as homework-reading, but
which is included in your packet.):
In the closing section of "Identity Crisis" Sherry
Turkle writes, "As we stand on the boundary between the real and the
virtual, our experience recalls what the anthropologist Victor Turner termed a
liminal moment, a moment of passage when new cultural symbols and meanings can
emerge [footnote 39]" (268). Does Turkle's claim help us shift focus onto
the second course unit? Why or why not? Rely on your annotation of
"Growing Up Tethered" to form your answer.
Also,
be sure that you have responded to all previous wikispace prompts on the
appropriate pages on our wiki.
Homework: Complete
the double entry assignment about Turkle's chapter.
Tuesday, March 26
You
will complete to different group assignments today:
With
your Unit Two Chart group, complete the appropriate row of the Unit Two
Chart by using the paragraphs that you prepared for this assignment. Begin by
renaming and saving a copy of the blank chart above, and by coordinating with
the rest of your group to be sure that everyone is responsible for his/her
work. Be sure to complete peer reviews within your group. Speak with Meesh
about how to submit the work.
With
your reality-television group, compose a mini-essay in response to your
reality television viewing, to the course terms that you selected before
watching the show, and to the notes that you took while viewing the show. Save
a copy of the essay, and then post it to our wikispace (in response to the
S13-Reality Television Analysis question).
Thursday, April 18
Center
for Library Instruction
After
the reviews of the draft mixed-media-messages, complete your library research
for your Final Paper. Use the Library Research/Scholarly Sources form provided
during the last class to record your research.
Review
the "Course materials" handouts linked above to be sure that you have
a copy of all the resources that you need to keep track of your own progress on
the Mixed-Media-Message and Final Paper.
Homework: Complete
your mixed-media-message and bring it (and anything you need to display it
fully) to Tuesday's class.