Professor Walt Hecox
Economics Department
The Colorado College

Personal Electronic Journal Requirement

Introduction

Instructions for Accessing Your Personal Electronic Journal:


 

Introduction

Each student will keep a personal journal via computer which will be submitted each day via E-Mail. This will be a daily diary format into which you can enter your reactions to the materials studied in the course, people and places visited, and thoughts about how economics relates to what we study. You will be given some provocative questions intended to stimulate your thinking, which will need to be answered in the diary. You can also add other materials and "personalize" this evolving record of your experience in the course. Your thoughtful, well-written and limited responses are important: the value of this exercise stems from the reflection and thought you put into your answers. Such responses should be limited to several paragraphs per question, should be correct grammatically with proper spelling and punctuation.

Walt Hecox will be the ONLY person with access to your diary. Periodically he will call up your diary as it has evolved to date, read what you have written, and insert comments and questions. These comments and your responses to them will become additional parts of your personal diary.

 The "grade" for the Personal Journal will not be on the "correctness" of your thoughts and reactions. Rather, Your journal will be graded on the energy and enthusiasm, care and pride you mount to use the diary as a learning experience. It is expected that you will keep up-to-date in making journal entries and answering the questions we pose as the material in the course evolves.  It is also expected that you will want to show originality and creativity in deciding what to include and how to "capture" the focus of the class.

Remember also that your Personal Journal, printed out, will become a section in your Course Notebook. This will become a chronological record of the issues which arise and how you react to them as you gain sophistication in studying the course material.

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