April 8, 2010 Your Name:

Z-!C-02 – InClass Assignment (graded) – Concepts and Chapters of Zick and Smith.

CONTEXT – General Education courses expect you to gain lifelong skills … and GEOG3600 totally buys into those goals. Why? Because I care about your being an empowered person.

This assignment asks you to respond with knowledge (key concepts) and to link knowledge with experience.

Here’s the GEN ED objective and the UofU rubric for assessing it.

Please think about this objective.

Then connect relevant experience and academic knowledge –

Connections to

experience

(4) Shows evidence of combining

fields of study and one’s own

perspective on classroom content

as well as life situations to

illuminate and deepen one’s

analysis, synthesis, or - interpretation(s).

(3) Demonstrates an understanding of

the influence of fields of study with

one’s own experience outside of

the classroom.

(2) Begins to appropriately associate

one’s own experience outside of

the classroom with fields of study.

(1) Demonstrates some understanding

of how one’s own experience

outside of formal classroom relates

to fields of study

SUMMARIZE two significant concepts from CHAPTER 4-6. Connect relevant experience (your experience) and academic knowledge. Turn this in Tuesday, beginning of class.