A Coffee Date With Adam Smith
The 301 prof was not a big fan of big writing assignments, but he liked to mix things up. For different classes he would identify different media for students to use, and for ours he decided on Adobe Slack. There was a practice assignment, then a presentation assignment. I...
Pols301: Declarations of Independence
301, the first of the “actual” classes. Political Theory. The assignment here was a one-pager, just a quick compare/contrast between several Declarations. A funny bit of trivia- this class didn’t take much in the way of writing, but the professor was married to the one who assigned tons of...
Pols 102, part 3: The Global South
Just one short essay left here. Gonna roll hardcore and not even proofread. 5. Consider our discussion of cases in the Global South: Mexico, Brazil, India, Nigeria, and South Africa. Choose any three of these countries and discuss the institutions of colonialism as they pertain to political, economic, and cultural challenges...
Final- PoliSci 102 part 2- Exporting Marx
Some professors were sticklers for format, some not so much. Unfortunately for me, the one with the big writing assignments was VERY big on citations. She maintained a large library of related reading materials online for each of her courses, and heavily hinted that they should be read, but...
Welcome to CSUCI (sucker!)
The Channel Islands work goes on and on (and on). Some of the writing expectations were pretty hardcore- one prof in particular got easily over 70 pages between the three classes of hers that I took. The first two of those classes were in my first semester, which was...
Meet John Doe + Citizen Kane
Compare and contrast the depictions of newspapers, journalists, the masses (newspaper readers/voters/citizens), politicians and/or big business in Citizen Kane and Meet John Doe. Identify the common themes and differences in the ways the films portray these subjects and try to draw some conclusions about the directors’ visions of journalism and politics in the...