Students collaborate on generating ideas and assessing each other's work.
Students keep a journal of their reading in which they respond personally and creatively to the literature. This course works to enhance student skills of research and written composition. Assignments include a creative essay and an extended research project, in which students present their research and engage in collaborative reviews of each other's work. Students complete a research assignment, which includes an oral presentation before the class and often makes use of multimedia technology. The literature in this course is based on extreme cultural conflict, and understanding of it an act of cross-cultural imagination on the student's part.