Final Paper Prompt WINTER 2019
This is a two part Final:
Part 1: You will craft a 4-6 page paper using 1-2 threshold concepts from your discipline to examine one of the themes covered in Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do.
Part 2: You will map out a plan of how you will complete your remaining four quarters (40 weeks!) in a way that defines your success at the Research University (Anticipated length is ~2 pages).
Detailed Instructions
Total Pages: Approx 7-8.
Part 1 (4-6 pages): The Best We Could Do, the UCSB Reads book, our first graphic novel, covered all sorts of topics:
- Immigration
- Identity
- Mixed Identity
- Displacement
- Sense of belonging
- The refugee experience
- Nationalism
- The value of education
- Inter generational dynamics
- Parenthood
- Family
Use one or two (keep it focused) threshold concepts to describe how, say, a communication scholar might view Bui’s experience. How would economists examine, say, immigration (one of the themes of the book)? Imagine how you would view the issues, problems, topics from the book using the tools from your discipline. Start with this, what questions would you ask as an anthropologist, chemist, or historian? Do you need examples? We will talk about examples in lecture and in sections.
Part two (~2 pages): Now that you are nearly half-way through your research university experience, what is your strategy going forward? How will you utilize what you’ve learned (not just from our course, but from your experience since you arrived) in order to complete your degree and feel like a success? (We mentioned this at the “unboxing” of this assignment. You get to define success. For some of you, it is winning the Nobel Prize before you graduate, for others, it it addressing something very basic, like passing grades and a UC degree.)
example; write about how will plan on succeeding in future courses or how you plan on achieving your degree.
Bonus. If you want to share a mind-map of your plan with us, get out your pens or use Mind Map and let’s see it.
Some more Specifics.
- Because we’ve never used this prompt before, don’t obsess over page length. If you feel like you’re going to go way over, let your team know and check in with a CLAS expert for editing support.
- Use APA format for citations, title page, and references. We have a link to the OWL resource if you need some help with this.
- Remember your Bloom (Bloom, 1956) as you write. DON’T just quote from the sources — put them to work. Here’s a helpful reminder of Bloom and how to put it to use.https://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/academic1/writi…
- Your Part 1 paper should have an introduction. Prepare the reader for the Threshold Concept or concepts you plan to apply and how you’ll address a topic from Bui’s novel.
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