Exploratories


Exploratory Tasks (Collaborative) +
Critical Blog Posts (Individual) (15-20 points) 

Four (4) times over the semester, we will undertake short, innovative reading or research tasks (often involving digital tools), usually done collaboratively and accompanied by a critical blog post. Our goal with these assignments will be to build, critique, and explore—in other words, to play. Our goal with the blog posts will be to reflect on that play and how it illumines, complicates, addresses, or extends the readings for the previous or coming weeks, taking up key concepts, issues, conflicts, or terms. 

Generally speaking, critical blog posts are somewhat formal, highly intertextual, and should be a minimum of 2-3 well developed paragraphs in length (a couple of screens’ worth), but they can go longer. My great desire is to see you engage expertly with both task and texts, at times speaking through or alongside what we read, and speaking with some sophistication about what we read (citing where necessary and embedding links where relevant). Be sure to define terms and unpack assumptions for us, using your posts as occasions to teach. Because the blog is somewhat performative, I'll ask you to title your posts creatively (or insightfully). And finally, I will expect you to take one another seriously and to treat others with respect, regardless of the possible level of disagreement. Please don’t shy away from those levels of disagreement.
    
    Weekly 1 Exploratory: Schematizing P & O-T's Theory of Practical Reasoning - due in class on 9/22/16 (both parts)
       
    Weekly 3 Exploratory: Finding Enlightenment Terms in Concordances, Databases & Ontologies - due in class on 10/6/16 (critical blog post due by 2:00 p.m. on 10/8/16) 
       
    Weekly 5 Exploratory: Mapping Discourse, Culture, Ideology - due in class on 11/3/16 (both parts) 
       
    Weekly 7 Exploratory: Conceptual Reconstruction of "Roots" or "Linkages" - due by 2:00 p.m. on 11/17/16 (both parts); please have a draft ready to share with the class during our meeting on 11/15/16
     
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