Outcomes |
Activities |
Assessment |
| · Understand better how the world works by looking
through various lenses provided by different writers and speakers |
· Read multiple viewpoints on various problems
of human rights
· Listen to guest speakers and instructors
who take different points of view |
· Write summaries and responses to readings.
· Write responses to speakers; post on a blog
·
Participation in study group |
· Have a skeptical academic attitude
· Have sharpened
critical thinking skills |
· Critiques of various sources by instructors
· Evaluate written sources and websites |
· Critique a source
· Evaluate websites |
| · Be able to integrate various sources into
a single research project with an original controlling thesis |
· Carry out the steps in the research paper assignment: approved
topic; working bibliography; reading sources; thesis and outline;
rough draft; final draft
· Meet with mentor |
· Hand in each step of the project for comments
and evaluation
· Completed research project |
· Have developed an awareness and appreciation
of human rights
· Be able to articulate main problems and controversial issues
in regard to human rights
|
· Class discussion of reading
· Class
discussion with invited speakers on human rights activities
·
Participation in study group on readings
· Informal papers
and writing activities· Research paper
|
· Participation in discussions
·
Participation on blog
· Essay tests
· PowerPoint
Presentation
· Poster presentation |