Ethics of Civic Engagement: Context Paper
Adrienne Falcon, Carleton College
The student should research the demographic and organizational context for their project.

Mapping Thought Piece
Victoria Morse, Carleton College
Take the map you began in class today of "your" Carleton and revise/refine it around a single message, argument, or point. What do you want to say to the map reader about your experience of Carleton so far? What kinds of points can maps convey? What arguments would it be hard to make using a map as your means of communication? Revise your map to focus on your message. Think carefully about what map elements (line, color, conventional symbols, framing, orientation, scale etc) will best serve your purposes. How will you make your map "legible" to other users?

Linguistics 110: Endangered Languages
Catherine Fortin, Carleton College
Write a short opinion essay (~2 pages, double-spaced) exploring, in depth, some aspect of language endangerment, language death, language documentation, and/or language revitalization. Although you are developing an argument for a particular course of action (or point of view), the situation is complex, and your essay should explicitly take into account both pros and cons.

The construct and adjectival phrases
Shadi Bayadsy, Carleton College
The students are required to underline the construct phrases and circle the adjective phrases. Additionally, they will use each phrase in a complete sentence.

Bridging cultural gaps through holidays: A writing assignment
Shadi Bayadsy, Carleton College
There are two main religious Muslim holidays in the Middle East. The first is Eid Al Fitir, which literally means the "fast breaking holiday." This celebration comes soon after the end of Ramadan and lasts for three days. The second one is Eid Il adha, which literally means the "sacrifice holiday." During this time, Muslims slaughter sheep and give some of its meat to the poor. Choose one of these holidays to research. Describe the customary way of celebrating this holiday: what foods, decorations, rituals, prayers, or other behaviors are involved in this holiday? Consider the context in which the holiday originated, and speculate on why Muslims continue to honor this celebration. Finally, compare your chosen Muslim holiday with a holiday you are personally familiar with. What elements are similar or different? What cultural needs are served by these holidays, and what does this say about the differences in Eastern and Western societies?

Classics 110 Mapping Exercise
Clara Hardy, Carleton College
Students will superimpose a map of an ancient city (Athens or Rome) onto a map of a modern place with which they are familiar (the Carleton campus, the city of Northfield, or some select other U.S. cities). They need to make sure that the map scales are the same so that the familiar place can act as a measure for the unfamiliar. Once they have constructed the image of the two maps on top of each other, students will reflect on what the exercise has taught them about the ancient world.

Environmental Economics Final Policy Paper
Aaron Swoboda, Carleton College
You work for the US Secretary of Energy. Your job is to make a recommendation to the administration regarding a specific policy of your choice (as long as it is applicable to energy economics). The target audience of the paper is the United States Secretary of Energy and should be readily understandable by politicians, economists, and scientists. Your paper should be thoroughly researched and accompanied by scholarly references. The paper must be less than 10 pages long, not including title page, tables, figures, references, etc. A good paper will have the following things in it, they may not be explicitly labeled, but they will be within the paper. Title Page- Table of Contents -should include list of figures, etc. Executive Summary (no more than one page) - This is a brief synopsis of your important findings. This is the only part that most people read, so it had better have all of the important information and findings. Introduction/Background - Keep it to the point. What background knowledge does the reader need to understand the rest of the document? Think of this as framing the paper. Problem Statement - This doesn't have to be its own section, but you had better be able to point to it somewhere. What problem are you trying to solve? Analysis of Options - Describe the options available to solve the problem. How well do they achieve the goal of fixing your stated problem? What are their shortfalls? Recommendation - Tell me which policy you recommend to solve the problem. How does it solve the problem? What are your concerns? What are its shortfalls? End Notes References

Biochemistry oral presentations
M. Nidanie Henderson, Carleton College
Although the research article is the standard method of communicating scientific discoveries, oral and poster presentations are commonly used, too. Typically, these methods are more conversational, allowing for discussion of techniques, methods, and results. A presentation at a meeting can give an investigator a prime opportunity to assess how his or her work might be received and accepted in the community. It also may provide leads for different experiments and highlight weakness of the approach or experiment. To make certain that your team is on track for your mid-term and final laboratory reports, you will give a 15 minute Power-Point presentation the week before your report is due. These presentations will be created in-class from templates I provide for you.

Group enzyme mechanism problem set
Joe Chihade, Carleton College
Students design a poster presentation describing a "classic" enzyme and discussing results of an assigned literature paper in light of what is known about that enzyme.

Econometrics Review Podcast
Aaron Swoboda, Carleton College
One of the best ways to truly learn something is to teach it to someone else. This assignment asks you to create a podcast explaining and demonstrating one of the important concepts from the recently covered material in the course. You should view this as an opportunity to review/teach it to the class in preparation for the exam. Each student will make one podcast throughout the term. These ~5-10 minute "screen capture" podcasts will be posted online and available for viewing by the class.

Problem set on enzyme kinetics and inhibition
Joe Chihade, Carleton College
This is one of a series of regular problem sets in the course.

Argument Analysis: Kraut on Happiness
Daniel Groll, Carleton College
Students are asked to reconstruct an argument from a brief passage in a paper. They are then asked to offer what they take the best objection to that argument to be. Desired outcomes are described in "Assignment Goals"

English 114 (Introduction to Medieval Narrative): Suggested Topics for Essay 2
George Shuffelton, Carleton College

Class Discussion Guide
Jack Schneider, Carleton College
Each student is responsible for guiding a portion of class discussion during one of our meetings. You may work alone for this or with a partner, and you may choose which of the meetings you wish to lead. This will be decided on a first-come, first-serve basis. Students who elect to lead discussion of a book are responsible for only a portion of the book, which we can negotiate on a one-on-one basis. You will be evaluated on your ability to identify major issues and themes in the readings, the depth of your questions, your ability to effectively draw-out student response, and the way in which you connect student comments together to produce a coherent string of dialogue. Questions about your particular work on this assignment can be discussed during office hours.

Op-ed
Jack Schneider, Carleton College
Your task here is to write a response op-ed in which you will discuss how to improve American schools. You should directly address your previous work as if it were written by someone other than yourself, highlighting what that author got right and what s/he failed to include. But while one part of your task is to respond to the previous piece, this op-ed should also stand on its own. It should have a clear main point about improving schools, as well as evidence supporting it. Readers should not need to be in possession of your previous op-ed in order to understand your new one. As with the previous op-ed, you should be clear about what kinds of schools you are addressing (urban, rural, elementary, high schools, etc.), where you see those schools falling short, what it would take to create "success," and, what signs or indicators would convince parents, taxpayers, and policymakers that your school or district is "successful." You may draw on course readings, but you are not required to. The piece should be roughly 800 words in length.

Book review
Cliff Clark, Carleton College
In this book review, students are asked to identify the main argument and to assess the data on which it is based. They read the first chapter and the appendix that explains how the data about the rates of drinking ...

Term paper assignment for Introduction to Linguistic Theory
Michael Flynn, Carleton College

How geologists view the Carleton campus
Mary Savina, Carleton College
Students in Victoria Morse's Mapping the World A&I seminar paired off, each pair guided by two Geology 100 (Geology in the Field) students. One observer followed each group of students and took notes (see ...

Music 111: "Visualizing the Liberal Arts" Assignment: Comparison of Late Romantic and Modern Styles
Lawrence Archbold, Carleton College
The student will choose a pair of pieces, one piece from the Late Romantic style, one from the Modern style, and compare and contrast them from the standpoint of what can be communicated in a visual diagram. This ...

Music 111: "Bullet-Point" Assignment No. 1: Comparison of Renaissance and Baroque Styles
Lawrence Archbold, Carleton College
The assignment asks the student to demonstrate independently of the textbook how two examples of Western art music are typical of Renaissance and Baroque styles as studied in class with different examples. The ...