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Assignments
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Citizenship Essay Introduction This Unit introduces you to a number of important ideas and conversations about citizenship in the United States. Now you are asked to join the conversation and to respond to the readings, discussions, reflections, and activities of the Unit. What is your vision of citizenship? Why? What do you want to accomplish as a citizen? How? As a starting point, you should ask yourself what you brought to this course and this conversation. In the process of Unit IV experiences, how has your thinking grown or changed? What have you learned or gained, and what have you found especially challenging about the concept of citizenship? Which ideas are most interesting or most problematic for you and why? This assignment offers you a double challenge. First, because citizenship is an extremely complex topic, we challenge you to create a piece of writing that shows intelligence, courage, and honesty in examining one or more of the many difficult, complicated issues that face people who take citizenship seriously. Second, we challenge you to create a distinctive and memorable piece of writing that tackles the topic of citizenship in ways that only you can tackle it. Remember, the title of the course is Self as Citizen. That means YOU. The goal of this assignment is to demonstrate a solid grasp of course material that relates to your topic and a serious commitment to the sort of sophisticated analysis that doesn’t settle for easy answers and predictable conclusions. As there is no single “right” way to write this essay, we are open to a variety of topics and rhetorical strategies (see Rubric #2 for examples). |
