Pre-Planning
I consulted with Michele Eodice,
Director of the Writing Center, and Dan Bernstein, Director of
the Center for Teaching Excellence. They helped me develop goals
and generate ideas, both for the overall semester and on a day-to-day
basis.
Beginning of the Semester
I told the students
of my plan to make this a writing-intensive course in order to
help them process this abstract material. I asked for their ideas
and feedback.
Feedback
The primary feedback came from me, as we tried peer editing but found it problematic.
I give lots of detailed feedback on every paper, but particularly on
the first two assignments.
Units and Final
Every two-week unit culminated in a one-page paper. The students had
the entire class period to write this. The final paper was a
take-home, two-page paper that synthesized the semester's ideas.
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