nORMaL is WEIRD Course Blog: Midterm Exam

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Midterm Exam

The midterm exam will be Monday, required for all, and (to restate) be entirely drawn from the list of what a person needs to know from social studies to be somewhat "culturally literate" in the U.S.

Again, I urge you to prepare for the exam - what you learn now will also help in early June when a final will be drawn from the same list.

Passing with a 33/50 or greater will lead to benefits, failing will lead to no additional penalties.

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jolly100January 24, 2011 at 5:52 PM
Andy, I just want to congratulate you- that test was harder than the SAT!!
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"A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on what type of assumptions, of familiar practices, of established, unexamined ways of thinking the accepted practices are based.

...There is always a little thought occurring even in the most stupid institutions; there is always thought even in silent habits. Criticism consists in uncovering that thought and trying to change it: showing that things are not as obvious as people believe, making it so that what is taken for granted is no longer taken for granted. To do criticism is to make harder those acts which are now too easy." -Michel Foucault

p. 456 in Essential Works of Michel Foucault V3 (Power) edited by James Faubion. New Press. 2000.

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