I requested a special exam time so that both sections of the course can take the exam together. Our scheduled final exam time is Tuesday, May 8 at 4:30 PM in Textor 101.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
1. The data you collected should be used often in your paper. Use direct quotes, summaries of patterns, and interpretations of data throughout! You are welcome to do additional research too, but the additional research you do should not overwhelm your actual data.
2. Evidence, Evidence, Evidence! Back up your assertions with evidence. Avoid to the temptation to make broad claims like “people say…” or “society thinks…” without offering evidence to show that this assertion is true.
3. Cite your own data.
If you are using fieldnotes, then you can cite your data in the text like this:
xxxxxxx (Fieldnotes, 4/15/2010).
In the works cited page, your fieldnotes should be cited as follows
MLA – Your Last Name, Your First Name. Fieldnotes. (Date).
APA – Your Last Name, Your First Initial. (Date). Fieldnotes.
If you are using websites, use the standard citation format for websites/electronic sources:
MLA – http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
APA – http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
4. You must describe how you collected your data. For those of you doing field notes, you need to tell me where you went, how long you were there each time, and describe some general patterns of what you observed. For those of you doing content analysis, you need to describe your sites and summarize the data you found. If it does not work to list all of the websites in the body of your paper, you can use a footnote or appendix to give me a complete list.
5. Be sure to vary the data that you use. I will be checking to make sure you use field notes from multiple occasions or multiple websites throughout your paper.
6. When you write about “who benefits” – think big. Who are the major stakeholders in the situation you describe?
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Several of you are doing stigma projects on the GLBT community or teen pregnancy. Both of these stories appeared in the news today:
Birthrate for US teens is lowest in history – http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-04-09/CDC-teen-birth/54140178/1?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=birthratehttp://huff.to/HygYvM
Study shows the most homophobic group is… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/09/homophobia-people-same-sex-attraction-study_n_1412306.html
Monday, April 9, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
In this episode of This American Life, David Holthouse describes his plan to murder the man who raped him as a kid. He had worked on this plan since childhood. It’s a complicated and difficult story.
See Part II of “Slow to React” - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/425/slow-to-react
Monday, March 26, 2012
Act 3 of This American Life episode, “The Bridge,” includes interviews with Ron Book as well as people living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/407/the-bridge
This story from ABC News offers some video footage of the Julia Tuttle Causeway - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=852ZyRIPdjI&feature=related
Thursday, March 22, 2012
The Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic
Oprah Episode - http://youtu.be/5jnL4eyPc4Y
Geraldo – Exposing Satan’s Underground - http://youtu.be/uMSf4CAEVLU
A Brief Overview of Daycare Scandals - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/innocence/etc/other.html#7
Other links of interest:
Dateline – To Catch a Predator episode - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaOm7QepDM8
Dateline – Online Safety Kit for parents to protect children from online predators- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15162866/
Frontline – Hand of God (about priest scandal) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/handofgod/
Monday, March 19, 2012
“Boys Beware” – a film from the 1950s warning boys to avoid the homosexual predator
Monday, March 19, 2012
I thought some of you might be interested in this story. In the prologue of the This American Life episode on “First Contact” a man describes his experiences with hearing for the first time with a cochlear implant. You can hear his story at the link below:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/411/first-contact