Welcome to our Honors Seminar Class Blog!
This welcoming post is the only one that will be written in English. In this blog you will practice your Spanish and the fundamentals of critical thinking via blogging about telenovelas.
Your blog entries should reflect your thought process and your learning experience as you go through the course. In other words, your posts should be a thoughtful (and creative) expression of yourself. If you wish, you can complement the entries with images or other media.
Specifically, blog entries will be of three types:
- Open topic entries: You are free to analyze, comment and/or reflect on any of the topics and readings we will cover in class. You can also write about the telenovela you are analyzing for your final report. Be warned that mere description won’t meet my expectations.
- Responses/comments to entries posted by me: Occasionally, I will write in the class blog asking your input regarding certain aspects of telenovelas.
- Responses/comments to entries posted by your classmates: A good blog builds a community. In that spirit, you should comment on the entries of your classmates, be those open topic entries or their responses to my questions. Your comments must be substantive and add to the conversation. In other words, merely stating “I agree” or “good point” is not nearly enough.
You must write at least four open topic entries and three responses/comments before the course ends. These entries should be spread out. Therefore, I expect to find at least one new open topic entry written by each of you by:
- August 30
- September 13
- September 27
- October 25
There are no predetermined deadlines for responses/comments.
A final note: The blog is open only to our class. Only we can post in it.
Again,
¡Bienvenidos!
