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                                      8:00 – 11:00       SA                                        BWE 203                 Michitsch

            Adv. Assignment:  For our first class on August 23:

(1) Review the Course Syllabus and the Weekly Assignment documents, both posted on Blackboard under “Course Syllabus” (and don’t panic)

(2) Read Lustig and Koester, Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures Chapter 2 pp. 34-46 and Chapter 4 (all) & 5 (all)

(3) Read the Plato excerpts in Enduring Questions For An Intercultural World (and don’t panic)

(4) Write down one passage that you believe you understand, briefly summarizing your interpretation and also one passage that you do not comprehend.  A few sentences for each will suffice.  This exercise should be no more than one page, typed with your name affixed, due in class on August 23. This will serve as Prep Exercise #1 and will be graded Pass/Fail (see Syllabus).

Feel free to contact me with any questions or if you are panicking at dmichits@bw.edu

                                                11:30 – 2:30          SA/SU                   BWE 102                   Upton

            Adv. Assignment:  Due: 1st Class

            I. Read Part I, Chapters 1 through 6.

 II.  Compare & Contrast

            Farandole, Suite No.2  CD 1. (begins) Track 4

            Concierto de Aranjuez  CD 1. (begins) Track 9

            Compare & Contrast:  Write a one page paper (minimum)

            contrasting these two works using the considerations listed below.

              Considerations:

              * What is the main difference between these works?

              * How many notes make up the main theme?

                Do some of these notes repeat within the theme?

              * Tempo

              * Instruments used

              * Dynamics

              * Mood (overall)

              * Other

                                    8:30 – 12:30                SA                   UCC 102                                 Kay

            Adv. Assignment:  None required

                                    12:30 – 2:30                SA                   UCC 105                                Kay

            Adv. Assignment:  None required.

                                    8:00 – 11:00          SA                MC 222                                            Grubb

         TEXT - Required:  LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT (5^th Edition), by Denise Boyd & Helen Bee.  Publisher: Allyn & Bacon (2009)

Adv. Assignment:  Read and be prepared to discuss Chapters 1, 2, and 3 from the Boyd/Bee textbook.  To aid in your understanding of the content in each chapter, please complete the following exercises:

(1)   Interspersed throughout each chapter, you will find one “Research Report” box and one “The Real World” box.  Please respond to the pair of questions that appear in these two boxes for Chapters 1-3.  Your response to each pair of “Research Report” and “The Real World” questions should fill at least ½ page (typed, double-spaced) but should not exceed one full page per box.  Each response you write is worth 2 points (in other words, 4 points per box) and the grade will be based upon the quality (i.e., the degree to which your response completely and thoughtfully addresses the prompt) and clarity of your response. 

(2)   Please complete the “Test Yourself” quizzes that appear at the end of Chapters 1-3.  Print or type your answers to each question on the “Test Yourself” answer sheet that can be found under the “Assignments” tab of our Blackboard portal.  Each “Test Yourself” quiz is worth 2 points.

Please bring all parts of your Advance Assignment to our first class.  Total point value for the Advance Assignment is 30 points (10 points per chapter).

                                    6:15 – 9:15            W                 Marting 316                                     Fowler

            Adv. Assignment:  At least two weeks before the class begins, either pick up the syllabus from the BW             Bookstore, download it from             http://homepages.bw.edu/~rfowler/courses/courses.html, or get it from the       course Blackboard site.  All of the assignments for the course will be detailed in the syllabus,        including the       assignment for the first class meeting, which includes reading in preparation for a quiz.

SOC 210-BHY           WORK MATTERS:  SOCIOLOGY OF WORK    

                                    6:15 – 8:45                              MC 122                                               Brooks-Terry

            Adv. Assignment:  Advance Assignment is available on course Blackboard site.

                                    6:15 – 9:15            W                 MC 112                                            Wang

            TEXTS:  MEN’S LIVES, 7th Edition, 2007, edited by Kimmel & Messner.

  GENDER ROLES, 2007, multiple authors.

            Advance Assignment:  Please read the “Introduction” in Men’s Lives and the first essay in Gender Roles             titled  “The Undeclared War on Women” by Susan Faludi.  Write an outline no more than one page             summarizing major issues raised by Faludi in this essay.  The outline will be due at the end of the first class.  Happy reading!