Tuesday, January 31, 2006

BIOLOGY

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Week 3: January 30-Feb. 3 (Wednesday Activity Period 10:00)
1. Class Topics: Unit II: Origin of Life, Prokaryotes, Protists, Fungi,
and Plants (Chapters 16.6-16.25, 17, and 31)
2. Readings: Chapter 16 B (16.0-16.6)
3. Laboratory: Exercise 19. Eubacteria and Protistans I
4. EXAM 1: Concepts of Evolution (Chapters 13 – 16.6)
5. Website: Activities and Quizzes
Week 4: February 6-10
1. Class Topics: Protists and Fungi
2. Readings: Chapter 16 B
3. Laboratory: Exercise 20. Protistans II
Exercise 21. Fungi
Selected Readings and Collection
4. Website: Activities and Quizzes

SOCIOLOGY


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MySocLab

Lesson: Unit 2: Culture and
Socialization (Weeks 3 & 4)
Date: Monday, January 30, 2006
Topics: Culture. Socialization:
From Infancy to Old Age.
Social Interaction in Everyday Life.
Readings: Text Chapters 2 and 3
Assignments: Quiz 2 (2/13/06 - 2/17/06)
Unit 3
Lesson: Unit 3: Social Strucuture and Social
Networks (Weeks 5 & 6)
Date: Monday, February 13, 2006
Topics: Levels of sociological analysis. The social structure.
Social status, social class, roles, groups and organizations. Societal institutions. Societal transformation. Cultural diversity.
Readings: Text Chapters 4 and 5.
Assignments: Quiz 3 (2/27/06 - 3/3/06)

AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

WebCT
Week 4

Reading: Truth, pp. 246-47; Douglass, pp. 452-456; 474-483.
Writing: DISCUSSION #4; Research Projects.

Week 5:

Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro
Renaissance: 1865-1919
Reading: Douglass, continued; B.T. Washington, pp. 594-602; W.E.B. DuBois, pp. 699-708. Writing: DISCUSSION #5; PAPER 1 (topics to be given in WebCT Assignments).

Week 6

Reading: Washington, DuBois, continued.
Writing: DISCUSSION #6; Quiz; Research Projects.

Week 7

Reading: Chesnutt, pp. 624-632. Beg

in discussion of NOVEL: THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD, by Zora Neale Hurston. Writing: DISCUSSION #7;Research Projects.

SPRING BREAK: MAR. 4-12, 2006

Week 8

Reading: Chesnutt, continued; Dunbar, pp. 916-918;
Writing: DISCUSSION #8; Research Projects.

Week 9: Harlem Renaissance: 1919-1940

Reading: Garvey, pp. 997-1000; Hurston, 1030-1033.
Complete the novel this week!
Writing: DISCUSSION #9. MID-TERM EXAM.

Week 10

Reading: Hurston, (continued); Langston Hughes, excerpts.
Writing: DISCUSSION #10; Quiz; Research Projects.

Week 11: Realism, Naturalism, Modernism (1940-1960)

Reading: Wright, p. 1436-71; Petry, 1497-1504; Hayden, excerpts.
Writing: Paper due (topics to be assigned). Research Projects.

Week 12

Reading: Ellison, excerpts; Walker, excerpts; Brooks, pp. 1625-1627.
Writing: Quiz. Research Projects.

Week 13: The Black Arts Movement: 1960-1975

Reading: King, pp. 1896-1908; Baraka (a.k.a. Leroi Jones), excerpts; Giovanni, excerpts.

Week 14: Literature Since 1975

Reading: Angelou, pp. 2156-2158 and online poetry; Morrison, “Sula,” (online); Walker, pp. 2454-2457.

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

SPANISH

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AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

WebCT
Week 3: The Literature of Slavery and Freedom (1746-1865)
Reading: Terry, pp. 186-87; Wheatley, pp. 219, 224, 225;
Writing: DISCUSSION #3; Research Projects.

Week 4
Reading: Truth, pp. 246-47; Douglass, pp. 452-456; 474-483.
Writing: DISCUSSION #4; Research Projects.