Spend a few hours thinking about challenging issues that affect you and your community/communities. These should be interesting and significant issues that you might have some possibility of affecting in at least some small way (either personally or through political organizing and action). You'll choose one of these issues to work on for your semester-length project, so it should be something that requires critical thinking work: not just research, but also analysis, argument, and careful judgment.
Choose 1-3 issues to talk about in the comments section below.
Write a brief paragraph explaining each issue, and why you think it's important, interesting, and fruitful for a whole semester's work. Write your paragraph(s) in a word processing program and save your work. Then copy and paste your work into the comments. Instructions are below.
Please post your assignment by Tuesday 1/29, no later than 8 a.m.
By Wednesday in time for class, please read all of the suggested topics. Make a note of the topics that especially interest you. We'll narrow down topics in class on Wednesday.
Let me know if you have any questions, or any trouble posting your comments!
1. Click on the link at the bottom of this post that says "# comments" and you'll see a comment box appear.
2. Paste your paragraph(s) into the comment box.
3. You'll see a drop down menu beneath the comment box labelled "comment as:" - click on that and select "anonymous."
4. Click on "Publish."
The page should reload, and you should see your comment appear. If you don't see your comment, it didn't successfully publish. Go back through the steps and make sure you've done everything correctly. If you're still having trouble posting, send me an email and include your paragraph.
Good luck - I hope you'll find it interesting to think about this!
Your homework for Monday is to read the library's CLICS tutorial from chapter 2 up to but not including chapter 8.
