Cultural Anthropology Online 130 -Fall 07 Instructor: Frieda Rickenbach
 
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  • FINAL EXAM REMINDER:Our official time is Tues 12/11 at 1030-1230 in PS 175. And you may also take the exam with my other ftf courses at Tues 12/11 8-10 in LA 216 or Thurs 12/13 at 8-10 in LA 216. There are no later exams, as I must get grades in by Friday. So if these 3 times do not work for you, please VOICEMAIL me at x. 1983 at DVC with a CLEAR message about your name, number, situation. Practically speaking the alternate times beyond the above ones would be Tues/Wed at the m/u test center in FO 234. Let me know if necessary. All assignments are due in by this Thurs 12/13, if not sooner!
  • You'll need a pen, pencil, scantron 2052, and a rested mind. I'm emailing review/hints onto the webct email today.


  • This coming week is midterm 2 week. 11/1 in the same place, PS 175 at 11-1215. I imagine I'll see most of you there. Here are some other options: 11/1 in LA216 at either 8 am or 930 am, and you can take the test with my ftf students. If those early times don't work, we can schedule a specific test time in the make-up test center in FO 234. If that will be necessary for you please email me on webct asap , with the SUBJECT HEADER telling me "TEST TIME!!!" Additionally, I am extending the FILM REVIEW deadline to 11/8. That is so you can concentrate on exam for now!

  • Just a friendly reminder that all your lecture notes on this website are up, and that the textbook website link to your left here will take you to your quizzes, and you need to complete 2 of them and send the results to me at webct.. Keep up on your project and 2 BB postings ,also over on webct. Those assignments are basically C/NC, and so do not worry terribly about them--- but DO them!!! Then, the actual midterm later this month, for which you have a study guide, and which we discussed on our first day, will be graded with points. That and the second midterm and final exam count for most of your grade-- so you will want to do your best.


  • Thanks to all who attended our first meeting Thursday. Any of you who could not be there--- read my emails to you on Webct. The unit 1 handouts live in the wooden box next to my office door at FO 132. The course syllabus lives here, above, in aqua. Lecture notes are above in green---- keep up on reading and quizzes, and you'll be set! There is a "1st day checklist" on the second page of the handout packets. Make sure you can do/know/understand all the items!


  • Welcome to Anthropology 130 online! Fall 2007! The is the main "home" website for both sections of our course. This course is on Cultural Anthropology, looking at living cultures around the world today, both at general patterns as well as at interesting details of daily life.

 

  • The first required face to face (ftf) meeting is 8/23 . This is being held in the library classroom 202, past the main desk and to the left on the upper floor. You will meet at 11-1215. We will cover a lot of introductory material. This includes the fields of anthropology, WebCt, bulletin board discussions, how to use this main website, tests, lectures, a student survey, handouts and readings for you to do, various checklists, how to do online database searches using our library's electronic databases, and more!

  • Our course syllabus lives on the aqua syllabus page, see tab above. It changes! New material is added cumulatively, as is true on this home page. Keep checking! I'll print out the first partial syllabus for our first meeting. The other pages include a list of due dates, my contact info, resources, and very importantly, lecture notes, which are posted over the course of the whole semester.

  • Meanwhile, you can get your text: Haviland et al, Cultural Anthropology, 11th edition and start reading chapters 1 and 2. Also, explore the textbook link to your left-- there are tons of great resources there. Likewise, look at the DVC website link as well, with special attention to the libraray's vast array of online journals, databases, and fantastic resources. The WebCT component for this course is NOT home (this is home here), and is not yet operational. We will use it for discussions and email.
  • Finally, the Anthro in the News link to the left is fun, and has current popular and scientific press links for newsworthy stories that include anthropological issues (for example, the cross cultural aftermath of the tsunami, or the follow up to the Homo "hobbit" discovered recently-- not to mention ongoing discussion of Iraq, Somalia, ancient Egyptian archaeology, and scores of other current and older cultures).

  • Note: our url is: http://voyager.dvc.edu/%7Efrickenbach/classes/anthro130%2Df07/default.html

    Paste it into your browser ( Obviously you are here already, so you have it, but it doesn't hurt to duplicate the address) and then add to your bookmarks or favorites. Meanwhile, I am working on the actual links themselves.
  • The Webct portion of our course can be reached in many different ways. The link to the left , or log on to dvc.edu and click on the left column link to Webct. If you arrived here using the link in Webct, you obviously hit the "back" key to go back there, too! In any case, log on to our class, read your mail , and you can get started with your first "bulletin board (BB) " discussion topic in unit 1/part 1. This will be a brief introduction of yourself and you'll include cultural, family, educational, religious, or other information to the degree you feel comfortable. Plus you'll add a link to an interesting website, so when your classmates read your intro, they'll also have a place to explore. We'll also cover this in our first meeting in case you are having trouble.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

© Frieda Rickenbach 2007