Course Blog for Personal/Political: HW 35

What are the details of our daily existence? What systems dominate our lives? What meanings can we make of our situation?

This social studies/humanities course will steal from various disciplines - including anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, economics, futurology, history, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology - to help us make sense of our situation.

A major goal of the course will be to focus your attention on your own life. Together we will investigate major systems that create and rule our lives including capitalism, school, family, popular culture, and the US government. And we will figure out how to interpret our lives, and these systems, and the collision of our lives and these systems.

We will detour into the future and the past but our journey will be primarily contemporary.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

HW 35 - Cool Paper Rough Draft

By Tuesday 9am please post a rough draft of a 2-4 page (1000+ words) analysis of cool. I strongly encourage you to pick a sharp and interesting angle/thesis/primary-target and also to cannibalize your own and others' best thoughts to build the paper.

Please see the outline assignment for more suggestions and information.

Punctuality is important, if you finish this draft by the due date it will enable your triangle partners to provide suggestions and feedback well before the final draft due date.