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Fyse 101-11 Schedule
The Wall Street Journal: Focus on East Asia
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Updated on: 16-November-2006
REMEMBER:
Tuesday seminar meetings take place in
Thomas 223
Thursday seminar meetings take place in Thomas 209
Our seminar is unlike any other class that you will take during your
Marietta College career. Because the seminar is not rooted in a
particular discipline, does not rely on a textbook as the primary
source of learning, and is a current-events based seminar, we do not
have a measured amount of class materials "to get through".
As well, since the purpose of the seminar is "learning how to
learn" rather than learning a specific quantity of material, we
will proceed at a slower pace and pay more attention to the process of
learning than you would in other College classes. Thus, the schedule
is a blank document at the beginning of the semester, and will take
more definite shape as we proceed through the semester.
August 22
- Seminar introduction with Dr. Robert Walker
- Take online learning styles survey
- Listen
to "The Lost Sounds of Old Beijing" audio report
from NPR's Morning Edition radio program, listening
carefully for responses to the homework questions on the handout
given to you by Dr. Walker.
August 24
- Guest speaker, Ms. Kathleen Powell, Marietta College Career
Center Director, to talk about learning styles and how they impact
your academic performance. Please bring your copy of the learning
style survey results that you printed in class on Tuesday with Dr.
Robert Walker. Ms. Powell also will provide an introduction to the
services of the Career Center.
August 29
- Personal introductions
- Subscribe
to The Wall Street Journal
- Form seminar work teams (six teams of three students each)
- Discuss "The Lost Sounds of Old Beijing" homework
assignment
- Homework: research and prepare a one-page overview of each of the
two countries assigned to your work team. Several starting points
for your research might include the ASEAN (Association of Southeast
Asian Nations) Web site, the CIA World Factbook Web site, "Background
Notes" from the U.S. Department of State Web site, and
World
Atlas' Web site (for maps). Remember to include a
Works Cited page and
to use internal citations in your two overviews!
August 31
- Students present and discuss their country overviews
September 5
- Guest speaker: Ms. Barbara Adams, Educational Representative -
The Wall Street Journal
September 7
- East Asia map quiz
- Discussion of WSJ article, "More Play, Less Toil Is a
Stressful Shift For Some Koreans," from August 10, 2006
September 12 and 14
- An examination of the Asian women noted in "The 100 Most
Powerful Women" from Forbes Magazine
- Discussion about semester team project
September 19, 21, and 26
September 28, October 3 and 12
- Workplace safety; environment conditions and protection
- September 28: quiz on the WSJ article "Old Habits Undermine
Vietnam's Emergence" (August 9, 2006)
- September 28:
Viet
Nam offers to support global rules to protect workers
- September 28: NPR All Things Considered audio report
"China
Moves Against Unsafe Coal Mines"
- For September 28: please access and read the May 30, 2006 San
Francisco Chronicle article, "Vietnam's labor strife worsens;
Series of strikes, protests over pay, working conditions," by
Aaron Glantz and Ngoc Nguyen
- For October 3 and 12: please have accessed and read the following
two articles
- July 19, 2006 WSJ article, "In Booming China, A Doctor
Battles A Polluting Factory Fouled Waters Lead to Flood Of
Protests Nationwide; Officials' Mixed Messages Inspired by Erin
Brockovich," by Shair Oster and Mei Fong
- February 23, 2006 WSJ article, "Environmentalists,
Loggers Near Deal On Asian Rainforest; The Talks in Indonesia
Signal Rising Corporate Readiness To Engage Activist Groups The
Elephants of Tesso Nilo," by Steve Stecklow. The article is
also available from the
Community
Forestry Resource Center Web site.
- Short Writing Assignment #2 will be distributed; due at the start
of seminar on Thursday, October 12
October 5
- No seminar meeting since Professor Johnson is attending a meeting
at The Ohio State Unievrsity
- Please use the time to research articles for Writing Assignment
#2
October 17, 19 and 26
- Individual 15-minute meetings with Professor Johnson to discuss
mid-term grades and plan Spring 2007 schedules. Adams through
Little: meet with me on October 19; Lu through Xu: meet with me on
October 26
- October 17: Adams, Carter, Clift, Ewing, Fitzgibbon, and Kim
- October 19: Lakas, Little, Lu, Miller, Park, and Peng
- October 26: Barth, Penwell, Perine, Su, Taylor, and Xu
October 24
- Learning to use the Marietta College Web course registration
system
October 31
November 2 and 7
November 9, 14, 16, and 21
- Rural development and sustainability; rural outmigration to
cities: please read the three articles and scan the conference paper
- "Rush for Wealth in China's Cities Shatters the Ancient
Assurance of Care in Old Age," Howard French, The New York
Times, November 3, 2006
- "Village
Writes Its Epitaph: Victim of a Graying Japan," Norimitsu
Onishi, International Herald Tribune, April 30, 2006
- "Migrants' Money is Imperfect Cure for Poor Nations,"
Bob Davis, The Wall Street Journal, November 1, 2006
- November 16 -- Quiz #4: "The Ultimate Sport," by Ian
Gill, The Wall Street Journal article from November 10, 2006
- November 16 -- Short Writing Assignment #3 will be distributed;
due at 5:00pm, Friday, December 1.
November 28
- Teams present their semester projects in a poster session, Thomas
123
November 30
- Seminar evaluation; international classmates share aspects of
their cultures
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