Welcome!! This will be our class blog where I will post weekly reading questions for you to post your reading responses by 10 pm on Wednesdays starting January 29. Your comments to two other responses will be due by 11:59 pm the same day. Your midterm paper (and update) and final paper/project (and update) will also be due here, as links to your own blogs.
For our first day of class today, I will clarify my expectations for you in this class, and will highlight the importance of finishing assigned readings BEFORE coming to class, active participation in class with the aid of reading notes, writing thoughtful reading responses with quotes and page numbers, and working on your academic writing skills based on close reading of textual and audio/visual materials. This is a 400 level class and will involve intensive reading and writing. Please come to see me if you are freshmen or sophomores, or need help with academic reading and writing.
We will then go over important aspects of the syllabus, get to know each other a little bit, and watch a short TED talk relevant to popular culture in modern China. Looking forward!
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