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Course Guide:  Winter 2012
Humanities 100: Creative and Critical Thinking

Follow the links through the course. Read left to right top to bottom within each linked web page before you move out of it.  Get used to moving back and forth between web pages just as if you were turning through pages in a book.   If you get lost, come back to the course guide (bookmark/favorites this page). Read through the notes and review the notes weekly, and especially before every assignment is due. Use the schedule below to keep up with the reading and writing assignments.  

Make Contact

By Monday,  January 9th, send me rfcasad@msn.com an email and I will check you in and reply.  Send an initial email even if you are late registering or finding the website. Follow standard email conventions. Put Humanities 100 in the subject line of the email. Use a salutation (Hi Dr. Casad), write a short message (e.g., I can navigate the site. I know the assignment schedule. I have begun working on the assignments for the first week. Each week has three sections--a response to the reading assignment, a writing task, and a relevant quote from resources.  I do not have any questions for the class at this time. I look forward to your response to this email.), and finish with a  complimentary close (Regards, Jane Smith). A salutation, short message, and close are required on all your emails (as is Humanities 100 in the subject line).

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Notes  
Resource Quotes

Assignment Schedule
I will respond to your homework no later than three days after the due date (usually sooner).

Check in email due by  Monday, January 9th.
Smith1.rtf  Weeks 1-3 (attached file).  Due Monday January 23rd.
Smith2.rtf  Weeks 4-6 (attached file).  Due Monday February 13th.
Smith3.rtf  Weeks 7-9 (attached file).  Due Monday March 5th.
Smith4.rtf  Week 10 (attached file).     Due Monday March 12th.
Smith5.rtf  Week 11 (attached file).     Due Monday March 19th..

Assignments Winter 2012
(Click on and review all links.)

Week Number and Topic
(Sample Assignment with Format)		  Reading Assignment  Reading Advice   Writing Task Resource
Quotes
1.  Characteristics of Thinking Plato's Allegory of the Cave Describe Thinking Style Quote and note regarding Homework Entries
2.  Learning to Think Tragedy of the Commons, Hardin http://dieoff.org/page95.htm Describe Limits Quote
3.  Understanding Talents

http://www.newhorizons.org/future/Creating_the_Future/crfut_gardner.html

 

 Describe Talents Quote  
4. Understanding Self and Other Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bhmasl.html		 Describe Successful Relationships Quote
5.  Understanding Language and Numbers Rationalists
http://skepdic.com/occam.html 		Population and Resource Data Quote
6.  Understanding  Paradigms Ralph Waldo Emerson (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self-Reliance		 Analyze Internet Education
 		 Quote
7. Understanding Myth http://web.uvic.ca/grs/bowman/myth/  http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/creation.html
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/storfolk.html		 Summarize a Favorite Story Quote
8. Understanding Values Utilitarians
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/philosophy/texts/Mill_ON.htm
 		Describe Human Nature Quote
9. Understanding Virtues.  www.iep.utm.edu/v Describe Getting  the Good Life Quote
10. World Views    No reading Write World View  
Final Review No reading Assess Self and Site (extra credit 4) Possible 104 points.

Grade Scale: Over the course of the quarter, you can accumulate 104  points if you do the extra credit.  The points will produce a decimal grade like this: 106-97(4.0), 96(3.9), 95(3.8), 94(3.7), 93(3.6), 92(3.5),91(3.4), 90(3.3), 89(3.2), 88(3.1), 87(3.0), 86(2.9) ...57(0.0).