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Created: June 23, 2003
Latest Update: August 12, 2003
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Soc. 395-04: Sociology of Knowingness
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You will be held accountable for purposes of grading for the readings and exercises listed here. There will be no "testing." That means that you will not have to live in anxious anticipation of what we will ask and how much you will have to know. Instead, we will provide weekly discussion questions, lectures, essays, and concepts we feel that you should know as a result of having taken this course. You will assure us of that learning and receive your grade for the questions and concepts about which you choose to write and talk with us. In addition you will find detailed explanations and examples on our grading policies in the first week's reading.

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Week 1: Week of August 25, 2003
Topic: Adademic Assessment of Learning: The Technical Term for Grading Policy

Week 2: Week of September 1, 2003
Topic: The Structure of the Organization

Week 3: Week of September 8, 2003
Topic: The Structure of the Organization

Week 4: Week of September 15, 2003
Topic: The Structure of the Organization

Week 5: Week of September 22, 2003
Topic: The Structure of the Organization

Week 6: Week of September 29, 2003
Topic: The Structure of the Organization

Week 7: Week of October 6, 2003
Topic: The Structure of the Organization

Week 8: Week of October 13, 2003
Topic: The Structure of the Organization

Week 9: Week of October 20, 2003
Topic: Illocutionary Discourse

Week10: Week of October 27, 2003
Topic: Illocutionary Discourse

Week 11: Week of November 3, 2003
Topic: Illocutionary Discourse

Week12: Week of November 10, 2003
Topic: Illocutionary Discourse

Week13: Week ofNovember 17, 2003
Topic: Illocutionary Discourse

Week 14: Week of November 24, 2003
Topic: Social Class - Land Resources:

Week 15: Week of December 1, 2003
Topic: Criminology - Restorative Justice

Final Exam scheduled for Wednesday, December 10, 2{30 - 4:30 p.m. in our regular classroom, NSM B252. In accordance with our philosophy of learning there will be no final exam, but grades will have to go in by Tuesday, December 16..

Topic: Grades are required by the college. The following readings will explain our grading policy. These readings will substitute for textual readings this first week.

Prepartory Readings:

• Academic Assessment in Credited Course Learning What Susan calls the 5 C's, or qualities we look for in grading. Please don't ask how much is enough, when it's good enough for an A, and such. No one can tell you when a term paper is long enough, when it is an A, or any such nonsense. You're not working for a grade. You're working to learn. And this file will give you extremely concrete details on how to do that. And you don't usually know if you got an A on a term paper until you get it back. We think our system gives you much more detailed and accurate feedback. Use it.
• Maintatining Consistency in Academic Accountability An explanation of consistency as "discipline," and how to maintain it as a measure of your learning.
• Discovering Your Identity in Learning This essay covers a very specific example of how we measure our learning, particularly when that learning is latent. Like you recognize a word, but you can't remember what it means. And we tell you how to record that with us as learning.
• Authentication of Knowledge as Interdependent Forms to Guide Us Through Interactive Measures. Particularly at the latent stage of learning, it's hard to tell someone what you've learned. We focus on that with a vocabulary learning example in Discovering Your Identity in Learning. In this file we try to offer numerous examples that will help you identify learning in the latent stage. Link created June 29, 1999. Updated July 28, 2003.
• Measuring Learning without The Learner A brief essay on how we do this to children, and we misperceive so dreadfully their creative learning. To share with your kids and friends.

  More Advanced Theoretical Background for our Grading Policy:

• The Aesthetics of Answerability
• Why jeanne says don't just answer the questions. Importan