This schedule is based upon an "as-needed" concept of learning which allows
for flexibility and student input
for the course. Thus, the schedule will be developed
in sections or modules as the study progresses in order
to best meet the needs of the learners, the learning process and to allow
the professor to mentor the learners
in the most significant directions and ways of learning. This method
of learning is, therefore, learner or student-
centered, active, experiential, collaborative, interactive, creative
and critically reflective/contemplative,
and downright enjoyable. This schedule is organic and alive with possibilities.
Assignments will be found listed here.
Please
monitor that your email is working (empty your trash file regularly)
and check your email regularly.
Week
1: Introduction to the purposes, goals and methods
of the study
8/20
Bisnauth 1-10; Olmos 1-11; Caribbean
Map
Week
2: Bisnauth 11-77
8/27
Map of Africa
| African
Slave Trade
[withdrawal period: 8/27 - 10/26]
Send valid email address(es) to mentor's email (altany@marshall.edu)
by 8/31
Week
3: No class on 9/3, Labor Day
9/3
Afro-Caribbean
Religion
Vodun
| Vodou
| The
Early History of Haiti | Map
of Haiti
Bisnauth 80-100; Olmos 13-35
Week
4: Bisnauth 101-138
9/10
Afro-Caribbean
Faiths
Essay #1 Guidelines
Teams Formed 9/11; Team Work Time
(TWT) on 9/13
Week
5: Bisnauth 140-193 Olmos 79-121
9/17
Santeria
| Santeria
| What
is Santeria?
Santeria:
A Practical Guide to Afro-Caribbean Magic | Santeria:
An Outsider Looks In
Map of Cuba
Team Work Time 9/20
Week
6: Bisnauth 195-223; Olmos 195-215
9/24
Jamaicans of Ethiopian
Origin & the Rastafarian Faith
The Rastafarian Religion
Map
of Jamaica
Week
7: Olmos 231-246; Schwarz-Bart 2-70; Map
of Guadeloupe
10/1
Team Work Time
10/4
Week
8:
Schwarz-Bart 71-173
10/8
Mid-semester Evaluations due to mentor's email on
10/11-12
Team
Work Time 10/11
Team Essay due on the class discussion list 3 days prior to the Team's
in-class presentation
Week
10: Team Presentations
10/22
[last
day to drop an individual course: 10/26]
Week
12: Murphy vii-xiii, 1-61
11/5
Week
13: Murphy 62-115
11/12
Week
15: Summary, Interpretation, Evaluation, Integration
12/3
Final Essay,
in its revised form, is due to the mentor's email by 10 AM, Dec. 8, 2001
along with the Self-reflective, self-evaluation essay
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