Monday:
Quiz on
Borders, Chapter 10
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.
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]
Public speaking activity—declamation. [Applies to theme / discipline] [Public speaking]
Wednesday:
Work Group 2 will discuss Progymnasma 12 (Description)
http://moneymatters.utep.edu
Friday:
Class meets in Library 336 on Friday, April 15.
Work on "Discover" program.
Friday 10:30 am to 2:00 pm:
Frontera Retórica Symposium, in Geology Reading Room, 3rd floor, Geology
Bldg. Lunch will be
served. Extra credit available.
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 "Sixteen
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:
