Learning Culture through Purposeful Observation (Sample)

Topic outline

• General
  

  General

  
  

  • General Course Forums

  • Course Announcements Forum
  • Help and Feedback Forum
  • Global Cafe Forum
• Course Work
  

  Course Work

  Work through all the elements on this page one by one and in order.  As you complete an activity, check it off.  Some activities (those with a dashed box) will mark themselves off automatically once you have completed some required actions.
  

  • Getting Started
    

  • Wednesday
    

  • Welcome Greeting Page
  • Getting Help Page
  • Contacting Your Facilitator Page
  • Getting Comfortable with Assignments
  • Update Your Profile Assignment
  • Getting Comfortable with Forums and Each Other
  • Learning Culture through Purposeful Observation Syllabus Assignment
  • Learning Outcomes for this Course Assignment
  • Audio Introduction Assignment
  • Culture is Important!
    

  • You Don't Want This To Be You! Assignment
  • What is Culture? (Kwast's Model) Assignment
  • Thursday

  • Participant Observation

  • What is Participant Observation Assignment
  • Practice Some Observation in an American Family Living Room Forum
  • Was it hard not to move on to interpretation? Forum
  • Choose One Real-Life Observation Activity Assignment
  • Friday, Saturday & Sunday
    

  • Complete Your Real-Life Observation Activity Assignment
  • What I Learned Through Purposeful observation Forum
  • Monday
    

  • Planning for My Ongoing Culture Learning
    

  • What do you want to do differently moving forward? Wiki
  • Tuesday
    

  • Finishing up
    

  • My Learning Connection Assignment
  • Course Evaluation Forum
  • Can I re-visit this course anytime after completion? Assignment