Thoughts on Our Assignments

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A painting depicting a scene from an ancient epic regarding the god Vishnu.
(Source)

Most of these assignments are pretty familiar. For most of my humanities classes, we have weekly readings. I have taken other online courses which require weekly blog posts and comments. It is also not uncommon to give peers feedback on their work.

An assignment I have not yet encountered is the storytelling. I am interested by the concept of writing stories for a class in which we are supposed to be studying the stories written by others long ago, the Indian epics. It will be a fun opportunity to stretch my creative writing muscle, something I have not used in a very long time. Similarly, the projects sound like fun. It will be nice to develop my stories further, instead of just writing and immediately moving on without a look back.

I appreciate the option of extra credit, and further, that there are so many opportunities and such variety in the extra credit assignments available. They seem to be more focused on personal growth, which is kind of cool. They encourage us to connect more with our peers, to delve deeper into developing a growth mindset, and to reflect on our work. I really dig the more practical extra credit assignments, too.

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  1. Laura GibbsJanuary 10, 2019 at 1:31 PM

    It is so much fun when the story-writing starts in Week 2, Alex! Something that is really different about it compared to a typical discussion-board type discussion is that people's contributions are REALLY different from each other, way more different than contributions to a discussion usually are. And then, when people see other people's wild and out-there stories, that inspires even more wild and out-there stories. I have so much fun with all of that, and I hope you will too! I'm actually taking the Indian Epics class this semester and am already thinking of stories I want to write. :-)

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