Welcome to our class blog!

Hi folks!  Welcome to the Geographies of Social Justice class blog!

In addition to participating in the classroom, we have this class blog which will allow you to reflect on the readings and class discussions, connect them to your own life and experiences, exchange ideas with classmates, and discuss the ways that we see geographies of social justice in our “everyday geographies”. This assignment is therefore intended to help you focus your thoughts, think about the class material in new and different ways, and interact with your classmates (and potentially the wider public) in an online setting.

You will be expected to participate in the class blog a minimum of five times throughout the semester. At least one of your blog posts must be a new blog entry, and up to four may be comments/responses to another blog post on the site. 

New blog entries should: 

• be carefully thought out and directly related to that week’s readings and/or class material; 
• be at least one to two paragraphs in length (200-400 words); 
• contain links to and/or discussion of outside sources which relate to the week’s readings (including other webpages, images, youtube videos, etc). These sources should help facilitate a discussion of the course topic; 
• be free of spelling or grammatical errors. 

Blog responses should: 

• be at least one paragraphs in length (150-200 words); 
• indicate that you are familiar with class readings (including other students’ blog posts); 
• be free of spelling or grammatical errors. 

You may contribute to the blog as many times as you want, but only one blog post per week will count toward your final grade (i.e., you can’t do all five posts in one week). 

I look forward to your blog contributions!!