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.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Final Exam

The Final Exam in Social Studies will begin 12:50pm Wednesday June 9. It will be a 50 question multiple choice exam drawn from my version of "cultural literacy in the social studies".

Please examine the source facts (around 209), hyperlinked for your benefit by M. Bateson, that will be translated into the 50 questions.

The exam is mandatory. If you are otherwise passing the class;
passing the exam will add a few points to your semester grade.
failing the exam will not affect your grade.

If you are otherwise failing the course;
passing the exam will lift your semester/quarter grade to a 65.
failing the exam will result in a 55 for the semester/quarter.

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