Two Summer Classes this year!!

Even though I tried my hardest to talk the powers that be out of the Physical Education requirement, they would not hear of it. They ask if I was disabled, had some infirmity or just old age, none of which I could answer yes to. Thus I have signed up for a "Back Packing" 5 week class!! Should be a LOT of fun!! The final is a 3-4 day back packing trip to the Adirondacks! Wish me luck!!!

ENG 220 - Communicating About Ideas and Values (MORE WRITING!!!)

Critical analysis of issues and moral problems affecting all thinking adults. Selected readings organized around broad themes. Required writing assignments and oral communication. Required of most degree students.

This is what they say I will be able to do when I finish this class. Wish me luck it's only 6 weeks!!

1. Demonstrate the ability to critically exam the suppositions and methods of proposals, positions, statements, etc.
2. Demonstrate the ability to gather and apply pertinent information, as it bears on critical examination.
3. Demonstrate the ability to evaluate the relative worth of various sources of information and forms of argument.
4. Demonstrate the ability to approach new or unfamiliar information or perspectives with a dispassionately inquisitive interest in their validity, merit, and application.
5. Demonstrate an improved understanding to local circumstances relative to wider geographic and historical horizons.
6. Demonstrate the ability to express observations, thoughts, and judgments in concise, technically correct language, in an orderly sequence, with logically developed supporting evidence and argumentation. The best of such expressions will employ nuances of phraseology, subtleties of rhetorical effect, and a range of knowledge beyond the conventional.