Session 08: Midterm 01

Topics for this session

❖ Midterm 01: Concepts

Thoughts*

This is the first of three midterms. This one focuses on how full and well-organized your interpretive "toolbox" is. This class, as you know, emphasizes your analysis. This analysis, however, should be happening in "real time"— while your are discussing things in class, while you are reading texts or viewing films, and so on. That analysis cannot happen if the "toolbox" is not near at hand in your mind. Thus do your best to get the concepts plugged into your brain, with some sense of what can be used when. For further details, see sidebar "Assignments & Tests".

Remember that this is quite a bit of reading assigned for the several upcoming sessions (up until Midterm 02).

Summer 2012: This is a 50-minute exam (approximately). The second half of the class is devoted to something else.

Required—to be completed for today's session

✓ Except in very rare cases this test cannot be made up; therefore, on-time attendance is essential. Email me early if you know there is a problem with attending the test.

✓ Other required items willbe or already are detailed on ASSIGNMENTS & TESTS.

Texts, multimedia notes, links*

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Other*

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*THOUGHTS: Reading before class probably helps follow session content, reading afterwards might help consolidate notes, revisiting for tests is recommended. Content might be added before class or anytime up until about 24 hours ahead of a midterm.

*TEXTS, MULTIMEDIA NOTES, LINKS: If I have read from something, shown something or presented audio that is not elsewhere mentioned, I usually include that information here for the curious, sometime after the class (since I often make last-minute decisions about including something). It might take a while and sometimes I forget. You can email me.

*OTHER: When possible I note here names, places, and other details that I have mentioned in a lecture that would otherwise not be accessible in the assigned materials or easily located on your own. As with "TEXTS ..." this is usually sometime after class and, again, I might not be able to get around to doing it.