Leading In-Class Discussions

The purpose of this assignment is to allow participants to lead the class discussion on topics of importance in the course.  Skills to be developed are: teaching and facilitating skills, intellective skills, and verbal skills.  One participant will be assigned primary responsibility for each reading assignment.  That person will: (1) prepare and present a 5-10 minute opening analysis of the material, (2) lead the subsequent class discussion, (3) prepare a short (less than 1/3 page single spaced) abstract of the reading, simply copying the abstract when it is provided in the original reading or creating a new one when it is not provided, and (4) prepare a short, up to 1 page (single-spaced) critique of the material including, where appropriate, its relation to other relevant readings in the course.  (Items 3 and 4 are to be neatly prepared and a copy is to be distributed to each member of the class in e-mailboxes by 9:00 a.m. of class day). 

Deliverables: Abstract and critique of reading; leadership of in-class discussion on topic.  

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