1. ANTH 202/4B Introduction to Culture Meeting 1 January 4, 2010 Alexandre Enkerli (Alex)

2. Intro to Culture

What do you think culture is?

3. What do you expect from this course? 4. Did you take similar courses? 5. Culture Ideas 6. Raised Hand Poll: How Many of You...

Are anthropology/sociology majors?

7. Are in their first year of university studies? 8. Are in their first year at Concordia? 9. Took other anthro courses? 10. Arrived in Montreal within the last five years?

Within the last year?

Arrived in Canada within the last five years?

Within the last year?

Speak another language besides English and French? 11. Alex

Anthro background

12. Ethnographic disciplines 13. Outside Ivory Tower 14. Informal 15. [email_address] 16. Geek culture 17. Social Media 18. Approach to Teaching

Varied contexts

19. Flexibility 20. Learning happens despite teaching 21. Constructivism 22. Treat as adults 23. You're seeking out something 24. Basic Terms

Course: ANTH 202/4B Introduction to Culture

25. Class: All of us 26. Class Meetings: Mondays and Wednesdays, 13:15-14:30 (1:15p to 2:30p) 27. Classroom: JMSB (MB) S2.330 28. Office: H-1125-28 (Hall Building, 11 thFloor) 29. Resource Lab: H-1132 30. Moodle site for the course: https://moodle.concordia.ca/moodle/course/view.php?id=30196 31. Class Meetings

No break

32. New chapter on Wednesdays 33. Classroom exercises on Mondays 34. Course Requirements

Contributions (20%)

35. Exercises (20%) 36. Exams (60%) 37. Policies

Contributions

38. No extra credit 39. Prewrite 40. Commitment

Time Ratio

Variation

Registering for a gym 41. Working with textbook 42. Exercises 43. Exams

Thinking Questions

44. No T/F 45. No All/None of the above 46. Multiple choice 47. Matching 48. Short answers (sentence or two) 49. Open Questions (paragraph or two) 50. Mid-Term (March 3)

Through chapter 6 (pp. Xiii-231)

Final (exam period)

Chapters 7-AW (pp. 232-410)

51. Some comprehensive questions 52. Contributions

What each of you brings to the course

Would we miss you?

53. Background 54. Bring course outside All on the same boat

Everyone can contribute

55. Diverse roles Advice: Keep Journal 56. History of that Grade

Attendance

57. Participation 58. Engagement 59. Contribution

Now with exercises

Self-Assessment (February 28) 60. Graded (end of semester) 61. Replaces extra credit 62. Exercises

Practical approach

63. Varied

Scope

64. Procedure 65. Difficulty 66. Time commitment Individual exercises (voluntary, ungraded) 67. Team exercises (graded) 68. Team Exercises

Replace semester-long project

69. One in-class 70. Four homework (two before mid-term) 71. May assign weeks 72. May be combined 73. Change teams at midterm 74. Weighed by difficulty/effort

You can help me assess

75. Teamwork

Tuckman's Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing

76. Internal dynamic 77. Diverse roles 78. Relatively low stakes 79. Peer-assessment 80. Learning team 81. Team Formation

Icebreakers

Need at most six teams

82. First in-class exercises Randomized (A-Z)

After Drop/Add (January 16-17)

83. Might tweak 84. Online

Currently public access

85. Blended learning 86. Way to contribute 87. Online exercises 88. Forums 89. Forums

Initially subscribed

90. May rate posts 91. News 92. General 93. Weekly forums 94. Exam preparation 95. Teamwork 96. Anthro Caf 97. The Book

Thinking Like an Anthropologist (83$/62$)

98. Practical Approach 99. Ethnographic 100. Exercise-based 101. For Wednesday

Who Are You? A Cultural Self-Survey

102. Book

UTB: Using This Book

103. Also Preface 104. Good opportunity to look at book as a whole Journal