hcol100classdisc06

Suggestions for leading class discussion:

When it's your turn to begin class discussion, you should leave yourself additional time to read the day's assignment and reflect on its significance for the class. Check out the biographical information about the author that can be accessed by clicking on the author's highlighted name found on the on-line course Web-page, and consider what this indicates about the author's background and point of view. Compare this reading with other course readings and see if you can identify issues or questions that this reading addresses that we've discussed in earlier readings. These reflections should help you get an angle or perspective on what is important in the day's reading. Good discussion questions are specific, but open-ended. Asking, "what did you think of today's reading?" will probably not generate much of a response because it's too general. Even if every member of the class said what they thought about it, there probably wouldn't be much of a discussion because the comments would be all over the place. One effective strategy is to pick a short passage in the text that you think is important or provocative and frame a question that helps the class reflect on its significance. You can draw an explicit connection with an idea or question from earlier discussions, and ask how this passage compares with it. Identify tensions or apparent contradictions in the text and see what the class makes of them. I recommend coming to class with at three brief passages that you would like us to consider and three specific questions for us to discuss. Allow us some time to think about your question or highlighted passage, and don't get anxious if your first question doesn't get the ball rolling immediately; you can always move to your next question. Above all, do not attempt to summarize the reading. Your goal is to guide us into the text so that we can explore it, not tell us what you think it says.

Schedule:

Sharf	Max DeLeon
Salzman 1	Angus Mudge
Salzman 2	Grace O'Keefe
Jaggar	Ike Messmore
Shweder 1	Daniel Swedo
Shweder 2	Kristina Barbuto
Knott	Ally Cantor
Raman	Joshua Clarke
Bhagavad Gita 1	Dan McAlister
Bhagavad Gita 2	Zara Manuelyan
Bhagavad Gita 3	Matt Giacheri
Sagan 1	Caleb Searles
Sagan 2	Katelyn Esterby
Brown	Alicyn DeSimone
Levitin	Maggie Sager
Titon	Zoe Kosmas
Dewey 1	Ashley Money
Dewey 2	Liz Ottman