Assignments

WordPress Portfolio (80%)

The class resources can be found on the class blog. Please create a personal page on the blog which contains the following:

  • Introduction to yourself and your top three learning goals for this class (5%) LO8
  • Link to your City Directory (5%) LO1, LO3
  • Links to your 6 Short Assignments (30%) LO2, LO4, LO5, LO6, LO8
  • Link to your Exhibit Brief (10%) LO1, LO3, LO4, LO8
  • Link to your Final Project (30%) LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5, LO6, LO7, LO8

Participation (20%) LO8

There are a wide range of ways to show you are participating in this class. The most obvious is by attending class and speaking. (My expectation is that you will attend class unless you are ill.) Finding it hard to speak up? Post a comments in the chat during class. Still worried that you aren’t doing enough? Here are some other ways to participate:

  1. Comment on a post by a classmate for the day LO8
  2. Add a glossary item from the day’s readings LO2
  3. Add a date of something that occurs in the entries to the class timeline LO1, LO3
  4. Add a link to the place on the map to one of the day’s entries LO1, LO3, LO4

See guinea pigs for how you can win a prize for best written or spoken participation

How do these assignments relate to the course’s Learning Outcomes?

Each assignment is tagged with which learning outcomes it helps promote

  1. Engage with and critically reflect on how Jewish American culture, religion, and literature has changed from the colonial era to the present (LO1)
  2. Feel more comfortable close reading a range of texts and objects and be able to evaluate and use primary sources. (LO2)
  3. Formulate and execute a genuinely interdisciplinary study of Jewish American phenomenon, with American broadly understood to include transnational, hemispheric, oceanic, and global approaches to the study of American society and culture (LO3)
  4. Think in sophisticated ways about causation, historical or religious change (LO4)
  5. Engage with relevant scholarly literature (LO5)
  6. Explore the way race and ethnicity can be analyzed from interdisciplinary perspectives (LO6)
  7. Use digital tools to help you analyze and present your understanding of Jewish American studies (LO7)
  8. Position yourself as part of a scholarly community and conversation (LO8)