Each week you need to come up with, develop, refine, and write, 1 or 2 seminar questions. The idea of a seminar question is to generate discussion, debate, and engaged conversation. It is to step back for a moment and think productively about the readings. Thus, the question needs to avoid being so general that it does not focus on the readings and to avoid being so specific that it does not spur discussion. For example, the question may ask us to respond to a selected quotation from the course texts, crystallize key themes, relate the readings to other texts, films, and themes in the course, or prompt us to reflect together on the style of the texts and the moods they induce in you or their broader audiences. Discussion questions must be posted on the course blog by midnight each Wednesday.
SD 3800 Voices in Sustainable Development 