Matters of Life and Death
weekly schedule.

 

Week 8 (Oct. 11-15)

Library research
To be discussed: Strategies for the research assignment. Possible topics.

Assignments: Formulate a question (or set of questions) you hope to answer in your research; develop a list of keywords for your literature search.

Complete the online SJSU Plagiarism Tutorial (http://tutorials.sjlibrary.org/plagiarism/index.htm)

Analytic essay on Kübler-Ross (due Mon., Oct. 11 by 11:59 PM)

Analytic essay on The Seventh Seal (due Mon., Oct. 11 by 11:59 PM)

Response essay on Schopenhauer (due Mon., Oct. 11 by 11:59 PM)

Activity: Library database tour. (Wed. Oct. 13) Meet in King Library room 217 at class time.

Skills & Information:

To read for week 9:

Mitford, “The American Way of Death”, pp. 14-19 (CR).
Mitford, “What the Public Wants”, pp. 123-137 (CR).
Ariès, "Forbidden Death", pp. 84-107 (CR).(due by class time Mon. Oct 18)

Assignments for week 9:

Response essay on Kübler-Ross (due Mon., Oct. 18 by 11:59 PM)

Response essay on The Seventh Seal (due Mon., Oct. 18 by 11:59 PM)


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