Detailed Evaluation Criteria
Attendance & Active Participation in class 10%
Regular attendance is mandatory, and attendance will be taken each week. Classes are structured to be interactive, as it is important for students to talk about what they glean from the readings. It helps to understand the material better, and aids in the learning process. Therefore, you will be expected to actively debate and deliberate in class the key arguments or point of analysis, or critical questions relevant to the weekly assigned material. This means that you must have read the readings before class.
Blog Journal: 40%
As critical thinkers you will be asked to create a weblog during the first week of class where you will blog about assorted topics, ideas, questions and so forth related to lecture topics through out the term. Blog work & social media assignments will be given in class at the end of lecture and are due by the following class. Instructions about how to create a blog will be given in class. This assignment is intended to exercise your writing and, critical thinking skills and allow you to provide reflexive commentary about our class discussions.
Course Blog Contributions: 10%
Each week, students will be asked to contribute to the course blog in the ‘comments’ section by providing/adding additional resources and information outside of what has been provided in class; media articles, journal articles, blog posts, websites, YouTube videos, slide decks on SlideShare and so forth. This exercise allows the class to build a repository of information (in varying forms) that can be used by students for discussion or further research.
Presentation: 15%
Students will give a 20-30 minute group presentation during the last class of the term. More details will be provided in class about the presentation.
Final Take Home Exam: 25%
There will be a take home examination rather than one scheduled by the Registrar’s Office. You will be given the Take Home Exam at the last class on March 31st, and you will have one week to complete it – Exams are due by 4pm on Tues, April 7th, will be emailed to me and submitted to Turnitin. More details will be provided about the final take home exam during class.
