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On Monday, 06 October, I will collect your journals for a preliminary ungraded examination. This is to determine your progress, get insight into any problems you may be facing, and advising you on any ways you could improve, before any problems become too deeply entrenched.

Standards for assessing the Journal, some basic points to remember:

1. Entries should be written with reference to the key course questions
2. Entries should be written with reference to the main topics of a given section, say Section A
3. What is the main argument of the article: summarize in one sentence
4. What, for you, were some of the key points of the reading
5. What questions, problems, if any, did it raise for you? What left you confused?
6. What do you think was the instructor’s purpose in assigning the article

1. Keep careful account of the specific reading to which your notes relate
2. I will be looking for a basic minimum of two pages of typed single space writing per week
3. Date your entries, and number your pages

CHANGES TO THE SYLLABUS:

Please Note: Week 4 (On Cannibalism, Colonialism, and Anthropology), will be extended by a further day into the start of Week 5. Wednesday, 01 October, is Treaty Day, and our Mi'kmaq colleagues will not be attending classes. On Monday, 06 October, 2003, we will be examining the readings by Chagnon and Lindberg on the topic for Week 4.

Also,  as it is relevant to the material I presented in class on Frantz Fanon and colonialism, I am ordering a copy of a movie titled "The Battle for Algiers", which lasts 117 minutes, and will be shown across two classes. I will show this as soon as it is received, so it might interrupt our schedule. Between the extended week above, and 1.5 classes spent on the movie, this will inevitably mean deleting one or more items for the syllabus. More details to follow.