MSTU5510-RMcC
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Teachers College, Columbia University | |||||||||
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- Robbie McClintock, Instructor
- Office hours @ 334G Horace Mann
Tuesdays 5:30-6:30pm and by appointment
- Office hours @ 334G Horace Mann
Course Overview
Through Networks, social software, and interpretative scholarship participants can explore and apply emerging resources and tools for interpretative scholarship to their key interests, sharing their experiences and skills. We are in the midst of a deep transition in the material conditions of scholarship and education. These emerging conditions of work recast problems and possibilities of scholarship, altering constraints in ways that require reflective exploration.
Course grading
Networks, social software, and interpretative scholarship is a pass/fail course; if you want a letter grade, take some other course. In serious graduate study, what is important is not how participants perform relative to each other or relative to some abstract norm of expectation. What is important is your pursuit of your intellectual agenda at the highest level of your ability: you need to excel yourself. Participants will pass the course by constructively engaging in the work of building a digital commons – reading reflectively, discussing thoughtfully, and contributing effectively to the StudyPlace wiki.
As graduate students, participants should rely on their capacities for self-evaluation. Evaluative grades may make modest sense as useful feedback in courses through which one acquires certain structured skills, say how to do factor analysis, yet even with such skills, actually using them effectively for significant purposes is the best feedback. In actuality, evaluative grades probably have more to do with motivating students to overcome their recalcitrance in working through material they perceive to have little intrinsic interest. Participants in Networks, social software, and interpretative scholarship should anchor their work in their personal academic interests, bringing those to bear in advancing collaborative inquiries. If my basic expectations about graduate work interest you, please read "Some thoughts on graduate study" by Robbie McClintock. In this course, let us work together to develop the potential uses of networks and social software in the conduct of interpretative scholarship.
Meetings
1 • 1/22: Introduction
2 • 1/29: TBA
3 • 2/5: TBA
4 • 2/12: TBA
5 • 2/19: TBA
6 • 2/26: TBA
7 • 3/4: TBA
8 • 3/11: TBA
9 • 3/25: TBA
10 • 4/1: TBA
11 • 4/8: TBA
12 • 4/15: TBA
13 • 4/22: TBA
14 • 4/29: TBA
15 • 5/6: TBA
College Policies on Incompletes
The grade of Incomplete is to be assigned only when the course attendance requirement has been met but, for reasons satisfactory to the instructor, the granting of a final grade has been postponed because certain course assignments are outstanding. If the outstanding assignments are completed within one calendar year from the date of the close of term in which the grade of Incomplete was received and a final grade submitted, the final grade will be recorded on the permanent transcript, replacing the grade of Incomplete, with a transcript notation indicating the date that the grade of Incomplete was replaced by a final grade.
If the outstanding work is not completed within one calendar year from the date of the close of term in which the grade of Incomplete was received, the grade will remain as a permanent Incomplete on the transcript. In such instances, if the course is a required course or part of an approved program of study, students will be required to re-enroll in the course including repayment of all tuition and fee charges for the new registration and satisfactorily complete all course requirements. If the required course is not offered in subsequent terms, the student should speak with the faculty advisor or Program Coordinator about their options for fulfilling the degree requirement. Doctoral students with six or more credits with grades of Incomplete included on their program of study will not be allowed to sit for the certification exam.
Americans with Disabilities Act statement
The College will make reasonable accommodations for persons with documented disabilities. Students are encouraged to contact the office of Access and Services for Individuals with Disabilities for information about registration (166 Thorndike Hall). Services are available only to students who are registered and submit appropriate documentation.
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