Welcome
to Motivation & Emotion! All of your assignments are here; you will only go
to eLearning to check your grades. This first post will orient you to the
course and provide you with the first few activities you need to do to get
settled into the course. Each remaining post will provide the instructions for
your activities. Most posts will also have an Explore! feature at the bottom
with additional resources which you may find helpful for that assignment. Assignments
with specific due dates are due by 11:59pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The
Course Resources tab has links to important information that you will need to
access throughout the course. One such link is the How To Register link. You'll
need to go there next, click the link, and read and follow the directions
carefully. Make sure you have scrolled all the way to the bottom of the
document so you follow all the directions. The syllabus and course calendar
(with due dates) are also linked there.
Most
assignments are of two types: a reading assignment and write-up and an
application assignment and write-up. Each are worth 10 points and should be
about 500 words a piece. These assignments are posted directly here on the
blog. You should write your assignments in Word or other word processor, saving
your work, and then copying and pasting your assignment into the blog site.
This will save you grief if for some reason it doesn't post.
You will
read a book of your choosing (from a selected list), and write a paper on that
book (worth 100 points). You will get to select your due date for this
assignment. You will turn in a hard copy version in class on your due date and
submit an electronic copy to www.turnitin.com to check for plagiarism.
There
will be daily extra credit quizzes worth 5 pts each.
Near the
end of the course you will submit a Motivation Toward Your Goal report (worth
50 points). This will be a paper where you report on your progress and
scientific understanding of a goal that you will be prompted to think about and
pursue throughout the semester. You will turn this in hard copy in class.
There
will be a cumulative quiz the last day of class worth 50 points.
For the
final, you will watch a movie and write 10 short essays on the motivation and
emotion topics present in that movie (100 points). The final is open book and
open notes.
Yes,
there is a lot of work, but previous students have found that the pace is
manageable and the content meaningful to your own life (which somehow makes it
slightly better).
If you
are a graduate student, you will at the end of the course submit a 1000 word
essay of how the course content has informed your area of study (your MA thesis
project and/or your career aspirations).
By
Thursday class time:
Read
through this blog post (which you just have!), read the next blog post on Using
Movies, review remaining blog posts, read syllabus, and course calendar
(there are multiple blog posts due in the same week), register for this
blogsite (instructions are under the Course Resources tab), if you are on
facebook, you may join my virtual office hours
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1431101947188233/ if you'd like.
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