Understanding Global Cultures

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• Welcome to Global Cultures!

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• Introduction / Orientation to Understanding Global Cultures (slides 01A)
  
  
  • What do I already know about Global Cultures?
  • Introduction to You: Meet Yourselves
  • What would you like to know about your profs?
  • What do you expect to get out of this class?
    
    
• textbooks
  
  

• Assignments
  • listed on the calendar syllabus for Fall 2006
  • listed on the web text assignments semester summary page

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• Requirements
  
  
• participation
  
  
  • including GCforum -- more about this next time
    
    
    • At a minimum of once a week post a meaningful message on the class discussion on-line chat board located at GCforum
    • at least one topic of your weekly posting(s) should be related to the class topic(s) of the week
    • i.e., in Week 02, for example, you should discuss a topic related to what is happening in class during Week 02
    • at the very end of the semester, i.e., in Week 15, post a course evaluation of the class itself
      
      
      
• exams (2 midterms and a final) -- more about this next time
  • Exam I will be Week 07 on Day 13
  • Exam II will be Week 13 on Day 25
  • Final Exam will be during final exam week
    
    
• basic information
• makeup exams
• extra credit (optional)
• eGradebook

• Syllabus Information on the Web
  • Fall 2006 Class Calendar
  • weekly / daily class schedules: Week 01 Day 01 . . .
  • assignments summary (alternate format than calendar)
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Assignments

• Read: Distant Mirrors, 3rd ed., Chs. 1,"One Hundred Percent American" by Ralph Linton
  [American Cultural Anthropologist]
  
  
• Read: Distant Mirrors, 3rd ed., Ch. 3, "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" by Horace Miner
  [American Cultural Anthropologist]
  
  
• Review countries in text, and for the next class be prepared to select the cultures you personally would like to work on this semester