Welcome!

 

Welcome to our class! 

In this assignment you will practice the fundamentals of critical thinking via blogging about telenovelas and other serialized melodramatic content. Your blog entries should reflect your thought process and your learning experience as you go through the course. In other words, your posts should be a thoughtful (and creative) expression of yourself. If you wish, you can complement the entries with images or other media.

 

Specifically, blog entries will be of two types:

Open topic entries: With the exception of the post due on March 28, which should be a reflection on what you learn about telenovela production, you are free to analyze, comment and/or reflect on any of the topics and readings we will cover in class. You can also write about the show(s) you are analyzing for your class assignments. Be warned that mere description won’t meet my expectations. Therefore, your posts should include at least two good paragraphs. 

 

Responses/comments to entries: A good blog builds a community. In that spirit, you should comment on the entries posted by your classmates or by me, be those open topic entries or responses to others’ posts. Your comments must be substantive and add to the conversation. In other words, merely stating “I agree” or “good point” is not nearly enough.

 

You must write at least five open topic entries and six responses/comments during our term. The open topic entries should be spread out throughout the semester. Therefore, I expect to find at least one new open topic entry written by each of you by 9 p.m. of each of the following days:

February 1

February 15

March 26* (post must be about production)

April 11

April 23

 

There are no partial deadlines for your responses/comments, just the final deadline: April 23 at 9 p.m. I highly recommend you also write your comments throughout the semester.

 

The blog’s address is: https://telenovelasspring24.blogspot.com/

 

I need to include you as blog authors. In your Gmail account, you will receive an email inviting you to be part of the blog. Please follow the instructions in that email as soon as you get it so you can start posting. If you haven’t received the email by the second class meeting, please check your junk mail folder.

I'm looking forward to reading your thoughts!