1.  Join or be placed in a group

 

2.    Select a an book or  article.

 

3.  At the next  lecture submit  a statement about #1 and 2.

 

4.Once you have received the approval of the instructor, devise strategies among yourselves about how you will go about reading the assigned work and reporting your assessment of it to your seminar.  

 

5.  Carefully read the work assigned to your group.  Your object is to do a critical review not to criticize the work.  You are not expect  to sit in any kind of judgment of the work assigned to you, but rather to tell  the class as clearly as possible what are, in your collective judgment, the important points of information or interpretation in your assigned  work. 

 

  Length: Two double spaced typewritten pages. 

 

This review will be read to the class by a designated reader in your group.

 

 

6. On an assigned date  November your group will read its report directly to your seminar.  The class and instructor will ask questions of all members of the group who will each  carefully note observations and suggestions from the class and instructor which they will then individually revise into a final essay. Those absent from the group=s presentation will be noted as absent. Every member of the group is responsible for his or her own essay!  Each member of the seminar must carefully and professionally take note of each report and question the reporters about matters that are not clear.  

 

 

Final Report  

 

 

7.  Due:       05 December 08:30 121 Winters College.

 

A. Your own revised final version of the review that your group presented in Seminar.

 

B. A copy of the report presented by your group in Seminar.

 

C. A statement about your rôle in preparing your group's report.

 

D. A  bibliography of the work of art on which you are now focused.

   

 

 8. At the November Examination you will be required to discuss a  report presented in your seminar other than that of your own group.  

 

 

 

You must at all times have in your possession printed copies of all work submitted to your instructor.