Monday:
Discussion (if time
available): The university student as an adult
among adults, an intellectual among intellectuals and a scholar among scholars.
Gramsci and the concept of the intellectual.
What is the purpose that is driving your studies?
What
do you want to get from your university education and what have you gotten so
far? Emerging problems with your
classes and your life at UTEP. Review the concept of university collegiality: you are
not a passive object of instruction!
Read Borders Glossary. (p. 209) [Academic success strategies]
Personal
attitudes and goals.
Optional extra Credit:
Prepare or Beware: Getting ready for exams.
Nov. 9 (Tues.) 1:30-3:00p.m.Call
747-5302 to reserve your place.
Wednesday: Discuss
answers to
values quiz.
Discussion
(if time available): Health and student success. Discuss
results (in general terms) of Life Event Survey. Ideas on how to make your life
less stressful.
Morale boosters.
Response if time available.
Friday:
I have scheduled the UNIV Lab room, Library 336,
for Fri., Nov. 12.
Event Nov. Friday, Nov.12: "What Gandhi Means for Humanity
Today," Seminar by: Arvind Singhal, Samuel Shirley and Edna Holt Marston
Professor and Director, Social Justice Initiative, Department of
Communication, UTEP; and William J. Clinton Distinguished Fellow,
Clinton School of Public Service, University of Arkansas, Little
Rock,Liberal Arts 323,3:00 pm.
Monday:
1.
Read
Kennedy
(click for link),
117-20 (example).
2. Complete
Values quiz.
Have a copy of your
answers ready to discuss in the next
class.
3. Post
written
response on your own personal attitudes, values and goals
on your own Wiki: Respond briefly to each question on "Value clarification: more than sex, drugs and rock and roll!"
This counts for points as "daily work."
Wednesday:
1. Read "Seventeen
Suggestions" and post a brief, two paragraph response on your Wiki
comments,
with your own
additional suggestions for world-changing rhetoric. Counts for points
as "daily work."
2. Optional:
Explore the following links to valuable UTEP
resources related to your major:
