"Journal of Useful Ideas"

As explained in the course requirements, each blog entry should address the following:

• 1. General reflections on the human experience. The theorists we will be reading have no shortage of these. Identify one concept per reading that you find especially useful for helping to understand trends you see at work around you or in a wider global context. Explain the idea in your own words and briefly reflect on the insights the concept provides or the dilemmas it helps to explain and/or resolve.

• 2. Ideas that relate to your personal experience or interests. List ideas you find personally useful here, whether as tools for understanding your own experiences or for analyzing contemporary issues that you find particularly interesting.

Obviously, 1 and 2 can and will overlap at times. This is no problem, but for each text we read you should have an entry for both categories. The entries can be brief – a few sentences for each concept – but they should also be concise and insightful. The Journal will be posted in the form of a blog accessible only to our class participants