Study Guide, Pilgrimage Edicts, and Suggestions on Learning the Course Materials
Use the following information as you would use a map, to help chart the best trails through the territory of this course in pursuit of your academic destination.
A. Pilgrimage Edicts
Give it your best effort:
Approaching and executing each task to the fullest extent of your own skills and competencies, acknowledging that each of us comes to these tasks with varying levels of skills and competencies.
And then realizing that when your current level of skills and competencies may be deficient or inadequate, be willing to grow, take risks and learn.
Ask help from the instructor or graduate teaching assistant. Don't wait.
Show up and attend the class in the first place - attending class sessions and doing all the assignments. To successfully engage the tasks of this course, attendance at all class-related sessions is critical. If you can not attend a session, please notify the instructor before your absence if at all possible. Repeated absences will lower your grade. And be on-time.
Repeated absences (including being late to class) will render you as a "rock," . . . . . and rocks don't get good grades! And there are many ways to accumulate rocks. Loading your pockets with rocks only slows your progress toward the course's pilgrimage destination. Shouldering too many rocks will prevent you from even reaching that destination.
During class, you need to focus on the materials presented. Take great notes.
Avoid distractions. No cell phone use or text messaging. No use of headsets, I-pods, MP3 players. No use of laptop computers, other than for taking notes. They translate in getting "rocks."
And taking responsibility for your actions and efforts.
No whining, no frivolous excuses, and no scapegoating ("it was my computer!").
Only honestly will get you to your destination; Shortcuts will only get you de-railed:
Adhere to the highest academic standards of honesty and integrity.
No cheating, no plagiarism.
Plagiarism the passing off someone else's work as your own, without citing the source. This includes direct copying, rephrasing, and summarizing, as well as taking someone else's idea and putting it in different words. Know the difference between learning from the ideas of others, and passing off the ideas of others as your own.
B. Study Skills and Resources
Remember, you should spend, on average, at least 3 hours of study time (textbook reading, reviewing class notes, etc.) for each hour you spend in class. There is additional time devoted to researching and writing papers, and to developing projects. Plan accordingly. If you need help with note-taking, strategies for studying, writing, time-management, or tutoring assistance, please to not hesitate calling your professor.
Be sure to take complete notes of all key materials presented by the lecturer, guest speakers, other students, and any video presentations.
Writing Your Research Paper
Consider the resources at The Writing Center. The Writing Center is a collaborative learning program dedicated to providing one-on-one assistance to student writers. The Writing Center also provides a library of handbooks and style manuals, three student computers, a collection of handouts about writing, and a comfortable place to sit, read, and write.
Library Resources
Become very familiar with our library, as it will become a second home. To become more familiar with and fully utilize the resources of the library, take the Information Literacy Tutorial. You can also schedule an appointment with a library who will assist you in your research project. While doing your research, be able to critically evaluate your sources and judge what resources are valuable and valid. This is especially important in evaluating web site resources.
Questions About Technology
The ITS Help Desk has created the attached flyer in PDF format. You may also visit our office in the Administration Building room 133, contact us by e-mail helpdesk@uidaho.edu, or call at 208-885-HELP (4357) with any technology questions they may have. The web site is at http://support.uidaho.edu/.
C. Disability Support Services
Reasonable accommodations are available for students who have a documented disability. Please notify the instructor during the first week of class of any accommodation(s) needed for the course. Late notification may mean that requested accommodations might not be available. All accommodations must be approved through Disability Support Services located in the Idaho Commons Building, Rm. 312.
If students request accommodations for a disability without presenting a completed, signed Accommodation Form for the current semester from our office, please refer them to the Disability Support Services office (Idaho Commons, Rm. 312) to obtain one. If you have any questions regarding a student(s) with a disability(s), or how to best work with a particular student in class, please contact our office at:
885-7200
http://www.webs.uidaho.edu/aap/ (then onto the Disabilities Support Services link on the left side of the page)
D. Study Guide for the Exams, go to:
Note on Case Study application and use. The methodology and theoretical perspectives, as well as the primary ethnographic content upon which this course is based is primarily disseminated through the class lectures and the assigned PDF and HTML readings. It will be from these materials that the exams will be based and developed. The case study textbooks are to be used as supplemental extensions of and applications for the anthropological pedagogy and method developed in class, as well as specifically for participatory-interpretative course assignment. And you will be expected to integrate examples from your case studies into answering your questions on your essay exams. As you venture into the cultural worlds of the Kurds, for example, apply the perspectives garnered from the lectures as the basis for your interpretation and appreciation of these peoples. The case study textbooks reveal worlds within which you can explore and discover for yourself.
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