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Culture Paper

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Unit One
Written Assignments

Internet essay on the world view of American popular culture

Learning Skills Assignments

Complex Definitions


Unit Two
Written Assignments

Short essay on Luther and modern culture

Learning Skills Assignments

Significance


Unit Three
Written Assignments

Defining Concepts Visually: Velazquez and the Seventeenth Century

Learning Skills Assignments

Thinking in Theses


Unit Four
Written Assignments

Internet Debate on Individualism

Learning Skills Assignments

Complex Ideas


Unit Five
Written Assignments

>Capitalism Debate

Learning Skills Assignments

Constructing knowledge, part one: reflective assignment on the difference between the literal and the interpretive; what are preconceived interpretations?


Unit Six
Written Assignments

Revolutions Then and Now

Learning Skills Assignments

Applying analytical skills


Unit Seven
Learning Skills Assignments

Composing complete study guides

part two
understanding non-western traditions



Unit Eight
Written Assignments

Interpreting Native American Stories

Learning Skills Assignments

The Miracle Question, Part Three


Unit Nine
Written Assignments

Interpreting Native American Stories, Part Two

Learning Skills Assignments

Evaluating information


Unit Ten
Written Assignments

Internet debate essay on Native American and European contact

Learning Skills Assignments

Evaluating hypotheses


Unit Eleven
Written Assignments

Applying the Qur'an


Unit Twelve
Written Assignments

Interpreting Ottoman Culture
Learning Skills Assignments

Evaluating your successes


Unit Thirteen
Assignments
Internet Debate on Islamic Republicanism

Learning Skills Assignments

Learning from your successes


Unit Fourteen
Written Assignments

The Meaning of Fatehpur Sikri

Learning Skills Assignments

Applying Successes


Unit Fifteen
Learning Skills Assignments

Study Guides, Part Three: Hierarchies of Information


Unit Sixteen The Emergence of Modern Chinese Society

Written Assignments

Interpreting Chinese Stories


Unit Seventeen
Written Assignments

Confucius and Communism


Unit Eighteen Cultures in Conflict: Islam and the West

Written Assignments

Islam and Enlightenment

Learning Skills Assignments

Analytical Skills


Unit Nineteen Introduction to Japan: Shinto and Buddhism

Learning Skills Assignments

Solutions Skills: Developing Alternatives


Unit Twenty Frozen Features in a Floating World: Ukiyo, Kabuki, and Ran

Written Assignments

Kabuki and Ran


Unit Twenty-One Tokugawa Enlightenment: Inventing Japanese Culture and After

Written Assignments

Japanese Economics/Japanese Business


Unit Twenty-Two Cultures in Collision: Modern Japan

Written Assignments

Japanese Popular Culture

Learning Skills Assignments

Critical Thinking: Identifying Discourse Problems

Library Projects Due on African Culture


Unit Twenty-Three Cultures in Africa

Written Assignments

African Stories Project

Learning skills assignment

Evaluating information


Unit Twenty-Four Two Perspectives: The Slave Trade

Written Assignments

The Meaning of Civil Rights


Unit Twenty-Five African Colonialism: Two Perspectives

Written Assignments

Internet debate on Things Fall Apart

Learning skills assignment

Representing Book Length Arguments


Unit Twenty-Six Colonies and Statehood in South America

Learning Skills Assignments

Critical thinking: Putting it all together


Unit Twenty-Seven What is Modernity: Labor, Commodities, and Alienation

Learning Skills Assignments

Organizing complex arguments


Unit Twenty-Eight What is Modernity? Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Mass Culture

Written Assignments

Applying Complex Thought: Marx and Beavis and Butthead ; Nietzsche and Babe ; Kierkegaard and Rush Limbaugh
Learning Skills

Negotiating Goals and Alternatives


Unit Twenty-Nine World Culture in Crisis: War, Abstraction, Fascism, Postcolonialism

Written Assignments

Fascism, Technology and Modern Discourse
Learning Skills

Solutions Skills: Creating Your Curriculum


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