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, May 19, 2010

HW 58 - Parenting 102

Part 3: Interviews
Please include some quotes and perspectives from guest speakers, from perspectives presented in class (including of course the perspectives of other students), and from your own interviews with your parent/guardian and/or the parent/guardian of your parent/guardian. Again - we're not looking for "The View" type gossip or self-exposure - but for thoughtful insights and figuring stuff out.

Please write two paragraphs summarizing and analyzing these sources.

Part 4:
Please write two paragraphs evaluating and synthesizing your insights from this mini-unit on parenting, as an ultra short but powerful paper on parenting, that stands alone from the other paragraphs. Your focus should be on insights you've thought of that are helpful for you in making sense of your own experience of being parented and/or insights that you think might be helpful for you as a parent.


Due Monday the 24th of May 8:30am.
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