FYS Winter 2015//Wright

Weekly Schedule
Consult this calendar for daily assignments and expectations, keeping in mind that what you see here is not
set in stone. In other words, this course calendar deserves the freedom to go where it needs to go. You should
expect adjustments and amendments to what followsand you can even suggest changes! Keep these
requirements in mind:

Blog post deadlines: post your assigned blog work at 8am on the morning of each due date listed
below

Comments on classmates blog posts: for each blog post assignment, choose at least two of your
classmates blogs (in your section or the other FYS section for this course) and comment with at
least three sentences that evaluate, respond to, or otherwise engage each blog entrys
viewpoint/content. Your comments on the blogs will count as part of your participation grade for the
course

Posting reflections of your ongoing reading of a professional blog: Every Friday, we will spend a
few minutes sharing our reflections on the professional blogs we have chosen to follow this term.
Make sure to post a one-paragraph reflection from your reading of your chosen blog by 8am every
Friday (see the list and assignment sheet for details)

Key
TSIS----------They Say, I Say
AWR-------------A Writers Resource
TSCY--------------The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Week 1
M 1/5

W 1/7

In Class:
Homework:

Due:
In Class:
Homework:

F 1/9

Week 2
M 1/12

Introduction to the course and cultural competence survey

Read and annotate Part 1: Essay Assignment #1
SWA #1 Complete cultural comparison tool activity and post on blog
http://geert-hofstede.com/countries.html
Send your blog URLs to Mr. Wright (set up blog, if you need to)
SWA #1
Discuss cultural comparison tool posts
Discuss Part 1: Essay Assignment #1
Read and annotate Ritter and Hoffman Multicultural Health (Part 1 pp.
4-33)
Post blog response to reading (in addition to exercises in TSIS)
Choose the blog you plan to follow and report on throughout the term
Read AWR (pp. 27-34)
Read TSIS (pp. 1-30); complete Exercise 1 (p. 14) and Exercise 2 (p. 29)

In Class:
Homework:

Discuss reading, blog responses, and blog choices

Reading from Miles The Hippocratic Oath (pp. xiii-xiv, 20-23, 55-65, 171182)
Post blog response to reading
Read and annotate Part 2: Essay Assignment #1

In Class:

Discuss reading and blog posts

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Homework:

W 1/14

Due:
In Class:
Homework:

Discuss Part 2: Essay Assignment #1 (and SWA #2)

Read and thoroughly annotate King, Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail
Read TSIS (pp. 30-41)
Read and annotate handouts on summary
SWA #2
Schedule a required annotation/critical reading conference with Mr. Wright
SWA #2
Discuss Part 3: Essay Assignment #1 (handout in class)
Discuss the content and structure of King, Jr.s letter
SWA #3 Developing the Summary and Composing the Analysis
TSIS (pp. 42-51 with Exercise 2 and 105-120)

**Special Event

Discussion with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an environmental attorney, Green

Capitalism4:30 in Cowgill 102

F 1/16

SWA #3
Continue discussion of King, Jr.s Letter
Discuss reading and peer review SWA #3
Complete first full draft of Essay Assignment #1

Due:
In Class:
Homework:

Week 3
M 1/19

NO CLASS Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Tu 1/20
W 1/21

Small writing group peer-review sessions

Small writing group peer-review sessions
Homework:
Revise your draft of Essay Assignment #1
Consider conferencing with Mr. Wright (voluntary/optional)
Read and annotate Ritter and Hoffman Multicultural Health (pp. 41-59,
66-68) and Purnell and Pontias Cultural Competence (pp. 1-28)
Post blog response to both readings
Post blog update on your readings in the blog you are following

F 1/23

In Class:

Homework:

Week 4
M 1/26

In Class:
Homework:

W 1/28

DUE:
In Class:

Discuss readings
Update the class on your readings in the blog youve chosen to follow
Sign up for voluntary/optional conference with Mr. Wright
Read and annotate Part 1: Essay Assignment #2
Read AWR Unit 6 (explore the foldout and all pages from 287339, including example MLA essay at the end of the unit)
Post to blog one in-text and one Works Cited entry for your Essay 1

Discuss readings (MLA citation style)

Discuss Part 1: Essay Assignment #2
Complete Essay Assignment #1
Mukherjee Two Ways to Belong in America (handout)
Essay Assignment #1
Discuss reading (possible quiz)
Guest speaker

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F 1/30

Homework:

Read and annotate Prasasarao Understanding International Perspectives:

Implications for U.S. Health and Wellness (pp. 1-34) and Sutton Cooking
Skills, the Senses, and Memory: the Fate of Practical Knowledge (pp. 299317)
Post response to readings on your blog

In Class:

Discuss blog reading updates

Discuss readings
Read and annotate Berry Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
(handout) and Brinkley- Rubinstein and Mann The Complexity of Culture:
Cultures Impact on Health Disparities (pp. 39-49)
SWA #4 Summarizing, Analyzing and Responding to Berrys Argument

Homework:

Week 5
M 2/2

Due:
In Class:
Homework:

SWA #4
Discussion of readings and peer review of SWA #4
Read and annotate Part 2: Essay Assignment #2
Read AWR (pp. 126-130) and What Is an Argument? handout
SWA #5 Analyzing Arguments/Reasoning

W 2/4

Due:
In Class:
Homework:

SWA #5
Discuss argument/reasoning and peer-review SWA #5
Read AWR (pp. 130-136)
SWA #6 Analyzing Appeals, Fallacies, and Visual Arguments

F 2/6

Due:
In Class:
Homework:

SWA #6
Fallacies/appeals group presentations
Crawford and Avula Acculturation and Health (pp. 99-119)
Ritter and Hoffman Multicultural Health (pp.72-101)
SWA #6 Interpreting Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)

Due:
In Class:

SWA #6
Discuss CAM and peer review SWA #6
Guest speaker
Read and annotate Part 3: Essay Assignment #2
Read TSIS (pp. 55-77)
Prepare brief oral response/presentation to Berry

Week 6
M 2/9

Homework:

W 2/11

Due:
In Class:
Homework:

F 2/13

Week 7
M 2/16

Due:
In Class:

Presentation
Presentations
Discuss Part 3: Essay Assignment #2
Read TSIS (pp. 55-77)

Homework:

Presentation
Presentations
Discuss Part 3: Essay Assignment #2
SWA #7 Post a rough draft of argument critique/response to your blog

Due:

SWA #7

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In Class:
Homework:

Peer review SWA #7

Q & A about Essay #2
Revise/Develop draft of Essay #2

T 2/17
W 2/18

Small writing group peer-review sessions

Small writing group peer-review sessions
Homework:
Read and annotate Van der Ryn Notes on the History of Easing Thyself
(handout)
Read Avoiding Plagiarism (handout)
Post response to reading on blog
Consider conferencing with Mr. Wright as you revise Essay #2

F 2/20

In Class:

Homework:

Week 8
M 2/23

Discuss reading
Plagiarism quiz
Q & A on Essay Assignment #2
Read and annotate Schwartz Elegy for an Optimist (handout) and Ritter
and Hoffman Multicultural Health (pp. 104-132)
SWA #8 Two-page narrative that describes and interprets one of
your experiences as a patient in a hospital (with a serious illness) or your
experience with someone close to you in a hospital (with a serious illness)

Due:
In Class:
Homework:

SWA #8
Discuss readings and peer review SWA #8
VonDras Religion and Health: Ideological Contexts and Their Influences
on Health-Associated Behaviors (pp. 137-154)
SWA #9: Preview The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (TSCY)
Post a response to the reading on you blog

W 2/25

Due:
In Class:
Homework:

SWA #9
Discuss reading and peer review SWA #9
Complete final revision of Essay Assignment #2
Read and annotate TSCY (Preface and pp. 3-11)

F 2/27

Due:
In Class:
Homework:

Essay Assignment #2
Discuss reading (possible quiz)
Read handout on kinds of arguments
Post to your blog 3-5 questions you would like to explore in Essay #3
Read and annotate Essay Assignment #3: Argument Essay

In Class:
Homework:

Discuss Part 1: Essay Assignment #3

SWA #10: Prewriting Your Argument
Read TSIS (pp. 78-101)

Due:
In Class:
Homework:

SWA #10
Discuss reading and peer review SWA #10
Read and annotate Using Evidence Effectively (handout) and Booth
Booth Claims and Evidence (handout)
Post 3-5 claims you plan to make in your argument essay, followed by
evidence with which you plan to support these claims

Week 9
M 3/2

W 3/4

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F 3/6

In Class:
Homework:

Discuss readings and your claims/evidence

SWA #11 Outlining Your Argument
Read and annotate TSCY (pp. 12-77)

Week 10
3/9-3/13 No Class Spring Break
Week 11
M 3/16

Due:
In Class:
Homework:

SWA #11
Discuss reading and peer review SWA #11
Complete Draft of Essay #3

W 3/18
T 3/19

Small writing group sessions

Small writing group sessions
Homework:
Read and annotate TSCY (pp. 78-118) and revision handout
Post response to reading on your blog
Begin revising Essay #3

F 3/20

In Class:
Homework:

Discuss reading (possible quiz)

Read TSIS 121-159
Q & A on Essay #3

In Class:
Homework:

Discuss reading and presentation assignment for Essay #3

Read and annotate Howell Mediator Between Men and the Gods:
Shamanism and Health (pp. 281-305) and TSCY (pp. 119-153)
Post a response to the reading on your blog

W 3/25

In Class:
Homework:

Discuss readings (possible quiz)

Read and annotate Ritter and Hoffman Multicultural Health (pp. 134-157)
and TSCY (pp. 154-170)
SWA #12 Shamans, Meting Pots, and Injustices

F 3/27

Due:
In Class:
Homework:

SWA #12
Discuss readings and peer review SWA #12
Read and annotate TSCY (pp. 171-210)
Post a response to the reading on your blog

In Class:
Homework:

Discuss reading (possible quiz)

Read and annotate TSCY (pp. 210-250)

W 4/1

In Class:
Homework:

Discuss reading (possible quiz)

SWA #13 Preparing Your Presentation
Read and annotate TSCY (pp. 250-288)
Post a response to the reading on you blog

F 4/3

Due:
In Class:
Homework:

SWA #13
Discuss reading and peer review SWA #13
Prepare presentation
Read and annotate TSCY (pp. 289-303)

Week 12
M 3/23

Week 13
M 3/30

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SWA #14 Letter to Fadiman/the Lees/Lia
Week 14
M 4/6

Due:
In Class:

SWA #14
Discuss reading and your letter
Begin presentations

W 4/8
In Class:
Presentations
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F 4/10
In Class:
Presentations
Evaluations
Essay #3 Due by April 13 at 8am