A Set of Learning Goals

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Here is a brief description of the focus of and goals for an online course engaging Science and Technology from a Cultural Rhetorics standpoint.

As the course title suggests we will spend this semester thinking, reading, and writing about science and technology in the world. For the purposes of our section I built a course asking you to consider the use of science and technology in your everyday lives, in your academic careers, and also in your potential future careers. Under the frame of “The Tools We Use,” we will engage in activities that exercise your critical thinking and analytical skills while practicing for the demands of college writing. Much of what I ask you to do will be based on your own experience. Therefore, the best advice I can give you is to stay close to what you know from your everyday life, and then use the research skills we practice to build on your knowledge. Our specific goals for our section are as follows:
-Assess scholarly notions of Science & Technology as cultural practices
-Critically evaluate our own uses of technologies to better understand how we learn
-Use writing to better understand technology, and technology to better understand writing (ELI Review)
-Engage in academic research processes as a method of knowledge-building
-Understand writing as a communal activity, not an individual one.