Dec

8

Seminar Room Schedule for 12/9 & 12/10

December 8, 2009 | Uncategorized  |  Leave a Comment

Seminar A (Professor Gilmore):
Wed, Johnson Center, room A
Thur, Johnson Center, gold room (basement floor)

Seminar B (Professor Gabel):
Wed, Piedmont (dorm) Lounge
Thur, Johnson Center, room B

Seminar C (Professor Saddler):
Wed & Thur, SUB 2, room 3

Seminar D (Professor O’Connor):
Wed, SUB 2, front ballroom
Thu, SUB 2, room 1

Seminar E (Professor Yang):
Wed, Research 1, room 162
Thu, Johnson Center, room E

Seminar F (Professor Uy-Tioco):
Wed, Johnson Center, room E
Thu, Johnson Center, room F

Nov

24

Update to Writing on Reading #4

November 24, 2009 | Uncategorized  |  Leave a Comment

Letter to the author of one of the November 30th reading assignments (400 words).

Respond to one of the authors or reporters in a letter. *Briefly* summarize the article or report and explain its connections to our course. In making these connections cite one other assignment for the day and reference specifically at least one other reading or a course experience. The purpose of the letter is to question some part of the author’s presentation, or suggest something that he seems not to have considered or included. Be prepared to summarize your letter in seminar. Also, look at Chapter 16 in Faigley’s Writing for some advice on this assignment.

Nov

3

Grocery Store Assignment

November 3, 2009 | Uncategorized  |  1 Comment

Dear Cornerstone Students,
Some questions came up in seminars regarding Wednesday’s trips to grocery stores that are worth answering for all students. In no particular order:

The 3 tasks (map, chart, reflection) are worth 20 points each. The first two are group grades, the 3rd is an individual grade.

For task 1 include 1)an introduction that responds to the prompts that cannot be easily put on a map, 2)an annotated map, and 3)a conclusion that summarizes what cannot be placed on the map. The texts sections should be about 300 words each.

Length of task 3, the individual reflection, is 750-1000 words; answer all five questions.

For the chart question regarding where a food is from, consider yourself an inquiring consumer, not a food researcher (that role will come in the Food Book). Try to find the answer from what is available in the store, for example on the package itself or signs in the store or a friendly store employee nearby, but in some case the answer might be “unknown.”

Post the assignments as word documents to PebblePad, with the group responses going to one gateway (Grocery Store-Group) and the reflection to another (Grocery Store-Individual), unless you have specific instructions otherwise from your seminar instructor.

Write your seminar instructor by Tuesday 3pm (or earlier if specified by your instructor) about your choice of grocery stores. We strongly encourage you to take advantage of Asian markets in Fairfax that are easy access on Mason transportation: Lotte Plaza or H-Mart. For those groups interested in lunch at a supermarket, Wegmans, Whole Foods, and Super H Mart (Lee Highway) in Fairfax have a considerable array of offerings.

Information about area transportation is available at:
GMU Transportation Webpage

The CUE Bus
This is the old Cue Bus: The city’s CUE Bus system not only provides regularly scheduled, low-cost service to George Mason University, to shopping centers and other locations within the City of Fairfax, but also serves as a feeder network to the Vienna/Fairfax-GMU Metrorail Station. GMU students, staff and faculty with a valid ID ride free.

The GMU Shuttle
This provides free transportation to anyone with a GMU ID between the Fairfax Campus, Fair Oaks Mall, Fair Lakes Center, Fairfax Corner and University Mall. While we have been very lenient in allowing passage on all of our other shuttles to anyone claiming to have misplaced their ID, we must insist on showing your GMU ID to ride this bus due to insurance regulations and property agreements. The shuttle departs the Sandy Creek bus stop on the 1/2 hour and hour, and proceeds to its first stop at University Mall. Please read the Go-Bus Schedule and FAQs for details on pick-up and drop-off locations, etc.

Best wishes and enjoy yourselves,
NCLC 102 teaching team

Oct

21

Welcome to NCLC 102: Global Networks and Communities: Food and Sovereignty

October 21, 2009 | Uncategorized  |  Leave a Comment

To what extent and in what ways are we all the same or different as individuals, communities, cultures, and sovereignties, and why would one care? In what ways do local communities in different parts of the world become more and more interconnected with each other every day? How do we describe the relationships (and networks) that communities create? These are some of the large questions we will discuss in this course.

Because of developments in communication and transportation technologies, networks and communities have been created on a global scale. Not only has there been an increase in information, goods and services from all over the world, but also in the movement of peoples and cultures. Information communication technologies have enabled increased interconnectivity between people in remarkably different locales; human behaviors in one place impact others elsewhere.

In this course we will:

  • Examine some of the global issues that shape our world today
  • Understand globalization theories and concepts
  • Examine the role of technology in creating (and fostering) global networks and communities
  • Learn new technologies that help us create (and examine) networks and communities in this global world

This course meets university general education requirements in information technology and global understanding.