Thursday, September 1, 2022

BookTalk: Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets and Beginning of the year notes

 A few things I want to emphasize as the semester begins:


1. Pay attention to the syllabus (in all your classes)! Especially for assignments.  In our class, readings are linked in the syllabus.  I will also try to link all lessons we do to the syllabus.


2. Pay attention to your final exam schedule - it's different than your class schedule.  For our class, the final is scheduled for Saturday Dec17th, however our final will be a paper so you won't be required to be present for the final exam (for planning purposes if you are going home for winter break).


3. Take an active role in your education: This is your college experience.   
  • choose research and readings that you are interested in - ask professors for recommendations
  • use office hours - not just for help; introduce yourself, ask for book recommendations, discuss lessons.  Speaking of which checkout this book discussion from the Gender Studies Department:

4. Read the one book, one Loyola:  Rambler Read

The 2021-2023 Rambler Read is Thick: And Other Essays byTressie McMillan CottomIn eight treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, McMillan Cottom is unapologetically “thick.” Deemed “thick where I should have been thin, more where I should have been less,” McMillan Cottom refuses to shy away from blending the personal with the political, from bringing her full self and voice to the fore of her analytical work. Thick “transforms narrative moments into analyses of whiteness, black misogyny, and status-signaling as means of survival for black women” with “writing that is as deft as it is amusing.”

 The University community will also get to hear from Dr. McMillan Cottom when she visits the Lake Shore Campus on Wednesday, February 23, 2022. 

You can access a reading guide from the Publisher here, and the 2021-2023 Teaching and Learning Guide here

For more information about the Rambler Read, or to request a review copy, please contact New Student Programs at firstyearexperience@luc.edu.

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