Hailsin!
To the
Coordinator: Peter Appelbaum, Dept. of Education
Email: appelbaum@arcadia.edu
Webpage: http://gargoyle.arcadia.edu/appelbaum/
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This
course is associated with Scotland Preview during Spring Break at
Your grade in this course
will be based on the following assignments:
Attendance: You are
required to attend each cless gaitherin.
If you attend all five gaitherings, you will receive an “A” for this component
of the course. If you attend four, your grade for this component will be a “B;”
three – “C;” two – “D.”
Coar Roles: For the purposes of Scotland Preview, you have been assigned to a
subgroup with a faculty/staff leader and a peer mentor. Within your coar, each of you will take on a role
requiring you to bring resources, questions, information, and ideas to your coar at each cless gaitherin. Select a coar role before you leave the Rabbie
Burns Night on January 25th. Between cless gaitherings you may trade roles with another member of your coar, but you must always be prepared to
complete the expectations of your role for each gaitherin. You will receive
an “A” for this component of the course if you contribute useful information,
raise provocative issues/questions for your coar,
or otherwise fulfill your coar role
in a creative way at each gaitherin prior to our trip to Scotland; a “B: if you
fulfill your role for at least three gaitherings;
a “C” if you fulfill your role for at least two gaitherings; a “D” if you complete your role at least once.
Resairch Plan: Due February 26, 2007. Before we
leave for
Action Progress Refraction: Due April 6, 2007. Based on the
experiences and resairch you undertake, you will design a way to use what you
have learned to “take action,” i.e., to have an impact on others or to interact
with people who can make an impact on your own continuing work in this area. As
with the Resairch Plan, this may be done individually or in small groups up to
five people. A “refraction” is different from a “reflection.” When light reflects, it bounces off of you
without you or the light changing; when you refract light, it changes as it
goes through you, becoming something different because you have mediated it.
Details are available below in the Action
Progress Refraction Specifications. You will use your action to refract –
changing yourself, your ideas, and the meaning of your experiences.
How your
grade will be determined:
Attendance: 20%
Coar Role: 20%
Resairch Plan: 30%
Action Progress Refraction: 30%
Grade: 100%
Tentative Schedule:
Gaitherin 1January 25, Thursday, 4:30-7:00, Dining
Hall: Rabbie Burns Night
Introduction
to Scotland Preview and our course; traditional celebration of someone many
people consider not only Scotland’s most important literary figure, but also
the architect of a modern Scottish identity.
Gaitherin 2 Choose one of the following
options: Tuesday, February 6, 4:00-6:00 or Friday, February 9, 3:00-5:00 –
Library 003 either day ; History and Culture; Indie Bands
Homework for today:
i) Coar Role howk
ii) Surf these WebPages:
a) Music of
Vic Galloway’s Site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/vicgalloway/
Scotland Rock, Pop and Dance Music: http://www.culturalprofiles.net/scotland/Directories/Scotland_Cultural_Profile/-5507.html
BBC –
b) Scottish History On-line: http://www.north-scotland.co.uk/
BBC – Scotland History: http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/
Education
Gaitherin 3 Coar Activity scheduled by your Coar
Leader - TBA
Homework for today:
i) Coar Role howk
ii) Other prep work to be determined by your Coar Leader
Gaitherin 4 Revised
date: February 26, Monday, 12:00 -2:30 – Brubaker 102; Teleconference –
Scottish Identity, Parliament & Devolution
Homework for today:
i) Coar Role howk
ii) Read this article by Atina Nihtinen: http://scotsyett.com/download/Atina.pdf
Then, start at this website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6185652.stm,
and follow links to
explore Scottish identity.
iii) ***Make sure to bring your Resairch Plan draft
Gaitherin 5 Choose one of the following
options: Tuesday, March 20, 4:00-7:00
Bring all of your materials and ideas to this
participatory workshop during which we will use structured activities to help
each other clarify the action each of us will take in preparation for the
action progress refraction assignment.
Resairch Plan Specifications:
This 2-4 page paper (one per group
or individual) must meet the following criteria:
·
The
plan must be related to a personal interest that you have, or help you to
develop a skill that you want to learn.
·
It
must present a plan for how you will use your time before and during your trip
to
·
It
must describe how you will consider issues of identity through your resairch.
You must do something that is intercultural as part of your resairch project.
·
It
must describe how you will use at least half of your time on your “free day” in
·
It
must include plans for how you will learn from the exhibits and experiences
during our visits to at least three of the historical/cultural locations that
are part of our trip itinerary (e.g.,
·
It
must include references to at least two websites assigned on our syllabus. The
information from these sites must be integrated with your plan.
Action Progress Refraction Specifications. This 3-5 page paper or the equivalent (one per
group or individual) must meet the following criteria:
·
It
must demonstrate that you have carried out an action after Scotland Preview
that involved interacting with person(s) not enrolled in
·
It
must demonstrate that you have chosen the person(s) carefully based on the kind
of impact you were hoping to effect.
·
It
must use at least three things that you explain as significant in your
experience in
·
It
must answer the following questions: What did you do for your action? Why did
you do this action? What did you learn from the experience of the action (beyond what you may or may not
have learned before and during your trip to
·
You
might say that your experience in
Coar Roles:
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News –
Read US and Scottish newspapers (on-line and paper) to compare; what’s in them,
how are they different in terms of content, perspectives, etc.? Bring in summaries/samples for your coar.
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Music –
What’s hot in
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Tourism
resources – starting with the websites on-line already, what
other resources should we have available? What are good ideas for things to do
at night and on our free day (besides howkin)
when we are in
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Diverse
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Films –
Beyond Braveheart, Trainspotting, Dear
Frankie, Gregory’s Girl, and Ivanhoe, what other films can we watch to get
a feel for
Cless – a class, a lesson
Coar – a team of curlers,
a convivial company
Gaitherin – a meeting
Hailsin – welcome,
greeting
Howk - dig,
investigate, unearth, extricate; to hew, mine or quarry
Resairch – research
Preview Main Webpage: http://info.arcadia.edu/academics/preview/mainpage.html
Review of Alex Kapranos’ Book, Sound Bites: Eating on Tour with Franz
Ferdinand: http://www.curledup.com/soundbit.htm
Belle and Sebastian Portal: http://www.belleandsebastian.co.uk/
DJ Scotch Egg’s MySpace Page: http://www.myspace.com/djscotchegg
Save the Scotch Egg: http://www.savethescotchegg.co.uk/text_index.html
Scottie Translator: http://www.whoohoo.co.uk/main.asp
Weird
Dolly the Sheep: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_the_sheep
James Clerk Maxwell, from the
Ultimate Undiscovered Scotland Guide: http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/biographies/jamesclerkmaxwell.html