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 20, 2010

HW 37 - Cool Paper Done Draft

Please post your 1000+ word analysis of cool by Monday 8:30am.

Suggestions:
  • Use sections, short paragraphs, bold, and italic to add readibility
  • Use personal connections to make it more real and engaging
  • Proofread repeatedly
  • If you can't totally figure out a daring idea - name the idea and try to articulate what you can and also articulate what you think you're missing
  • Include questions
  • Benefit and quote from students - especially your triangle partners' blogs and suggestions
  • Analyze a particular angle - make a focus - don't just give a couple random thoughts about each of the 15 aspects of cool we've discovered
  • Address issues of authenticity and performance
  • Puzzle through paradoxes
  • Let yourself enjoy thinking and writing - even if its hard and frustrating and more work than texting "wat up" to your friends
  • Make a little works cited at the end, even if it isn't perfectly MLA style
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