Throughout the semester, you will write four response papers focusing on different topics we'll cover in class. These response papers are meant to help you focus your thinking about your own culture and your relationship to it. With each paper, we will discuss and brainstorm in class before it's due, then you will work on it at home, and turn it in. Each response paper accounts for seven-and-a-half percent of your grade, and you must do all of them to pass the class.
Essays are the larger, more complex projects you will compete twice during the semester. As we work on these projects, we will bring drafts to class and you will conference the papers with me. Each essay counts for a significant portion of your grade, and you must do both to pass the class.
Much of the interaction we will have with the students at NMMU will occur on the Sharing Cultures website discussion blogs. Each week, you will be required to post and/or respond to posts on the website. While you may post more than is required, there will be one 'assigned' writing to post each week.
We will also do small activities and have small homework assignments that are graded for points. These points will fall under this cateogry.
