This includes reasoning from data, interpreting quantitative information, and communicating results. Be able to use those contents and methods to analyze, support, and challenge ideas proposed by authors, lecturers, and fellow students in this course. Seek out and appreciate interdisciplinary connections among the areas explored in this course, and between this course and the other courses you are taking. Improve your written and oral expression. Improve your participation in group discussion.
Participation includes listening as well as speaking.
A valuable discussion relates the ideas of the participants, so be sure your contribution advances the group's line of reasoning. You are expected to prepare for these meetings by reading the assignments and noting questions and comments that will contribute to discussion. Attendance, preparation, and participation will be taken into account in assigning course grade. Your journal will be collected periodically throughout the semester. You should think of it as a chronicle or log of changes in your views from your first to your final essay.