What youll TEACH What theyll LEARN How youll ASSESS What they DO or MAKE What PRIOR know ledge you assume TITLE description core q uestion or catchphrase Course Design Brainstorming ID: 806198
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Course Design:
Brainstorming
What you’ll TEACH
What they’ll LEARN
How you’ll ASSESS
What they DO or MAKE
What PRIOR know-
ledge you assume
TITLE, description, core
q
uestion or catchphrase
Slide2Course Design:
Brainstorming
What you’ll TEACH
What they’ll LEARN
How you’ll ASSESS
What they DO or MAKE
What PRIOR know-
ledge you assume
TITLE, description, core
q
uestion or catchphrase
Students will
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onstruct a group framework for historical understanding about the 1950s
Analyze course texts in scholarly ways
Navigate library resources and locate, evaluate and properly cite sources
Utilize campus academic and social resources
First-Year Honors Seminar: The Fifties ---- “the decade you only think you know”
Intro to Cultural Studies approach
25% participation and attendance, which includes speaking up in seminar-style discussion and any informal in-class quizzes or activities
15% blog contributions
45% papers (the first 3 are 5% each, the last 3 are 10% each)
10% portfolio of work and self-reflection at end of semester
5% course reflection / feedback
Unit 1: The Way We Were(
n’t
) = overview of the 1950s, the prevailing myth and why it’s incomplete
Unit 2: Music and Popular Culture = art, music, television
Unit 3: Race and Identity, case study of
Brown v. Board of Ed
Unit 4: Peyton Place and Levittown = domestic life in landscape & popular fiction Unit 5: How Historians Argue about the 50s = big questions & how scholarly publishing worksUnit 6: Fifties on Film = intro to media studies approaches
6 structured “lab” assignments, getting progressively more complex, each modeling how to “read” a cultural text (Wikipedia article, pop song, primary document, novel, scholarly article, and film)2 blog posts + at least 5 comments on others’ postsEnd-of-term portfolio of work
Some knowledge of America in the 1950s (usually comes from the musical Grease) and some basic sense of the main events of the decadeMLA citation styleAbility to access Blackboard LMS
I also do some informal instruction about college life:Academic terminology; Roles of people and offices on campus; coping & stress + time mgmt skills
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