Slides for the first meeting of Alex Enkerli's ANTH202 Introduction to Culture

1. ANTH 202/4B – Introduction to Culture Meeting 1 – January 4, 2010 Alexandre Enkerli (Alex)

3. What do you expect from this course?

4. Did you take similar courses?

5. Culture Ideas

7. Are in their first year of university studies?

8. Are in their first year at Concordia?

9. Took other anthro courses?

12. Ethnographic disciplines

13. Outside Ivory Tower

14. Informal

15. [email_address]

16. Geek culture

17. Social Media

19. Flexibility

20. “Learning happens despite teaching”

21. Constructivism

22. Treat as adults

23. You're seeking out something

25. Class: All of us

26. Class Meetings: Mondays and Wednesdays, 13:15-14:30 (1:15p to 2:30p)

27. Classroom: JMSB (MB) S2.330

28. Office: H-1125-28 (Hall Building, 11 th Floor)

29. Resource Lab: H-1132

30. Moodle site for the course: https://moodle.concordia.ca/moodle/course/view.php?id=30196

32. New chapter on Wednesdays

33. Classroom exercises on Mondays

35. Exercises (20%)

36. Exams (60%)

38. No extra credit

39. Prewrite

41. Working with textbook

42. Exercises

44. No T/F

45. No “All/None of the above”

46. Multiple choice

47. Matching

48. Short answers (sentence or two)

49. Open Questions (paragraph or two)

51. Some “comprehensive” questions

53. Background

57. “Participation”

58. “Engagement”

60. Graded (end of semester)

61. Replaces “extra credit”

64. Procedure

65. Difficulty

67. Team exercises (graded)

69. One in-class

70. Four homework (two before mid-term)

71. May assign weeks

72. May be combined

73. Change teams at midterm

76. Internal dynamic

77. Diverse roles

78. Relatively low stakes

79. Peer-assessment

80. Learning team

83. Might tweak

85. Blended learning

86. Way to contribute

87. Online exercises

88. Forums

90. May rate posts

91. “News”

92. “General”

93. Weekly forums

94. Exam preparation

95. Teamwork

96. “Anthro Café”

98. Practical Approach

99. Ethnographic

100. Exercise-based

103. Also Preface