Assignments

• Weekly Reading Posts: Informal notes analyzing/exploring key issues in the readings on the class wiki. One or two people will be responsible for writing the opening post for each reading, to which others will respond.Opening posts due on the wiki by the Monday before the class in which we discuss the text. Substantial responses will be due before the class begins.
  
  
• One short paper (one, tight, single spaced page or two double), to be read aloud and then handed in, which will explicate the "cultural artifact" (a text, a theory, a philosophy, an architectural style, etc.) you have chosen for the semester, across which you will read the texts of the course. Attach a short bibliography of other works on this artifact, as well--a handful is fine. Once they are handed in, please upload your papers to the wiki to share with the class.


• Summary/Response Papers: Formal, one-page, single spaced, beautifully polished, and terribly insightful papers that summarize the assigned reading and then respond to it by "reading" it across your cultural artifact--to be read aloud in class and handed in . Once they are handed in, please upload your papers to the wiki to share with class.