Review

Session Presentation Instructions These are further instructions for the review/sessions tutorial groups. Review Sessions are meant to: 1) facilitate small(er)-group discussion of the themes covered in class and 2) revise the reading material in preparation for the exam and final paper. In other words, these sessions are not lectures but depend on the active participation of the students. This is why we have divided you into presentation groups. We ask members of these small sub- groups to meet before the review session [do not simply divide up the readings via email and never meet as a group!] and then: 1. Discuss the readings together: parse out core concepts, coherent or incoherent definitions, critical themes cutting across the readings, and situate them in wider contexts based on the lecture and your own thoughts. Compare your different perspectives: where do you agree/disagree, why? Bring out personal and/or further examples to those discussed in class: come prepared to talk about them in class! Critique the literature: what is wrong with what we have read, from the groups perspective? Does it apply in practice? Why, why not? What are other explanations/theories/data that are more relevant? Make notes together and prepare to discuss them in class. Decide how you wish to write handouts for each of the readings. There should be one handout per compulsory reading. Thus each review session should have 4-6 different handouts. How you distribute who writes these handouts (one each etc.) is up to the group, but you must all do the readings and discuss them together! An example handout has been published on the course support webpage, which shows how the handout should 1) summarize the core arguments of the paper, 2) critique the paper, 3) offer potential avenues for improvement in the paper, and 4) offer a few discussion questions. The handout should not exceed one single-spaced page (font size 10-11, normal margins). All handouts must be emailed to the TA at 5pm the day before the tutorial so we can print them for the class. Go further! PowerPoints, relevant videos/short documentaries, or anything else you can think of to make the discussion more interesting are all very welcome. Another purpose of meeting with your group is to decide how you want to organize this. During the review session you will be expected to lead the discussion of the readings! This will mean offering critical discussions (not summaries) of individual readings (aim for 10 minutes per paper!), making them speak to each other. This is what we mean by presentation. If you have extra material (as per point 3), or wish to use PowerPoint etc., it will be greatly appreciated, and serve to make the sessions more useful for everyone. How you wish to organize, among your group, how you will lead the discussion is, however, up to you but every member must participate. This discussion leading activity is by far the most important part of getting an easy high-grade for 10% of your mark.

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Please note that each tutorial deals with the compulsory readings of two preceding weeks, which are listed below (we do not look at the readings of the same week as the tutorial, e.g. in tutorial 1 we dont look at the readings from Week 4): Tutorial 1: Tutorial 2: Tutorial 3: Tutorial 4: Tutorial 5: Readings from Sessions Two, & Three. Readings from Sessions Four, Five Readings from Sessions Six, Eight Readings from Sessions Nine, Ten Readings from Sessions Eleven, Twelve