Assignment
You will be required to complete FOUR mini papers throughout the semester. You are free to complete FIVE papers. You CANNOT turn in more than five. If you do so, I will simply hand it back to you ungraded and it will not count. Which topics you select is completely up to you.
Each paper is for which it applies (basically you will learn various concepts and then be given an opportunity to apply the concepts/knowledge in a paper). The paper must be handed in at the beginning of the class on its specific due date, NO EXCEPTIONS.
If you cannot make it to class that day you forfeit your chance to do that paper.
Each paper will require you to do something a little different and they cover a variety of topics. In each case, you are expected to answer the question(s) posed by the paper requirement as well as apply concepts you learned about the subject from class. It is important that you JUSTIFY and EXPLAIN your answers. Remember, you are "teaching" me something or attempting to convince me about your point of view.
Your job is to make the connections for me.
While the paper topics are different there are some requirements that apply to all papers:
• It must be typed, 12 point font, Times New Roman or Arial, 1 inch margins all round
• Double spaced
• It must be minimum three pages, maximum four pages
• It must be stapled
• Grammar and spell check required
• Logical flow and structure of argument
• Avoid excessive "spacing" or "indentations"
• Have a cover page correctly formatted in APA style
• Provide a references list correctly formatted in APA style
Your text offered a definition of culture. Take its individual parts and explain how they manifest themselves in your everyday life. Here it is expressed in those individual parts:
• Culture is the world made meaningful.
• It is socially constructed and maintained through communication.
• It limits as well as liberates us; it differentiates as well as unites us.
• It defines our realities and thereby shapes the ways we think, feel, and act.