Discussion Leadership Recordings!
Here’s the archive of discussions led so far. These files can be downloaded. They are ZIP archives containing all the recorded discussions for a given class date.
May 8th: Jung Ji Sun, Song Eun Sung, Lee Seung Chul. Download the archive.
May 15th: Kim Han Wool, Mo Ran, Yeon Chang-Mo, Do Jae-won. Download the archive.
May 17th: Seji Kim, Roh Jae Won, Park Ji Hye, Kim Ha-neul. Download the archive.
May 22nd: Lee Myung-hee, Yu Min-joo, Oh Se-Yeon, Kim Kyung-hoon. Download the archive.
Midterm Conversation Recordings
Here are the conversations I recorded.
Tuesday:
8.SunMi&EunSuk.mp3
Thursday:
Remember, you’re responsible for downloading your MP3 and preparing, for next Tuesday morning, a small note of feedback explaining what grade you think you deserve, and why.
Let me know if you have any problems with the MP3s. I’ve tested a few and they seem okay, but haven’t tested them all!
Midterms!
Hi there! Next week, we will have midterm examinations in my office, N223, on Tuesday and Thursday morning. Below, you can see the list of topics for the exam, along with the exam schedule. Please remember to come 5-10 minutes early. Apologies if I spell your name in English slightly differently than you spell it. I’ll try check back later today to make any necessary corrections.
Tuesday, 23 April, 2007
9:00 am
- Ran
- Jong Hwan
- Min Ju
- Han Ul
9:40 am
- Jin
- Eun Sung
- Seung Rack
- Myung Hee
10:20 am
- Se Yeon
- Min Kyung
- Kyung Hoon
- Se Ji
11:00 am
- Sun Mi
- Kyung Bin
- Yoo Jin
- Eun Sook
Thursday, 25 April, 2007
9:00 am
- Soo Yoon
- Won Hee
- Ji Sun
- Chang Mo
9:40 am
- So Hee
- Seung Cheol
- Mi Jung
- Sang Hoon
10:20 am
- Han Sol
- Jae Won
- Sae Nal
- Ji Hye
11:00 am
- Jung Won
- Jung Ran
- Min Ju
- Chae Won
- Han Eul
- Joong Sook
The topics you (mostly) chose for the exam:
- Ghosts
- Celebrities
- Cell phones
- Terrorism
- Personal Priorities
- Stress
- Plastic Surgery
- First Love
- Sex Education
- Common problems for you as students, and possible solutions
- Family
You will discuss two topics, randomly selected from the list, by rolling dice. One topic will be for you and your partner to discuss for ten minutes, and the other will be for your partner and you to discuss with me for five minutes.
For Thursday, April 5th! (Thursday, Week 5)
Hi everyone. Here’s the document I mentioned. Please download and print it. It’s a PDF, if you can’t install it you need Adobe Acrobat Reader or Foxit Reader. (If you’re using a Mac or Linux, email me and I’ll help you.)
Week 3, Week 4
I’m hurrying to catch up with myself.
Week 3:
We talked about Stress, Priorities, and Balance. We played a game that made your group discuss many decisions in terms of stress and priorities, and talked about the results.
I also reminded you to start researching a topic of interest for your upcoming “Discussion Leadership Day.” These days will start just before the midterm, to make sure everyone gets a chance to lead a discussion.
Week #4:
We talked about Transformations. You discussed how you’d change yourself if you had the chance. Then, after examining the very silly Christmas Declaration, we completed an exercise in which your group took on the role of some segment of Korean society — some examples were illegal foreign laborers, working mothers, and elementary schoolchildren — and you drew up a list of complaints and a list of demands for change.
The neatly-written or typed version of your lists of complaints/demands is due next week!
Week #5 Activities & Goals:
- I’ll be asking for you to write down and submit to me your chosen research topic for your Discussion Leadership Day. This is very important, since you will probably talk with me about this during your midterm exam, and since you will also need to lead a discussion sometime just before, or sometime after, midterms.
- We’ll be talking about different ways to distinguish between subjective opinion and objective fact in conversation, and why it’s important.
- There will be a short article for your group to read and discuss on Tuesday, and a longer article and exercise for you to complete on Thursday.
Weeks 1 & 2: Introductions & Who Are You, Really?
Here we are, halfway through week 2. There’s not much to talk about here, except to say we’ll probably spend an hour together on Thursday morning, and then call it quits so that those who want to can head to the mass at 10:00 am. You’ll be talking with people, making connections, and introducing yourselves in ways that aren’t boring.
Then, next week, we’ll move on to the next weekly theme, which is Life Balance: we’ll talk about work, fun, homework, school, family expectations, gender roles, and how to be happy — or sane — in a world of competing demands on our attention and time.
Until then, here’s a syllabus for our course, and here’s the student information sheet I asked you to fill out. Take care, and see you soon.