Welcome
Welcome to Dealing with Difference, your second-year Parami seminar class. It’s great to have you on board.
This is a seminar course. What this means is that we’ll be reading a wide range of very different texts, sharing our own experiences and ideas. This course is reading and writing intensive. This means that there is a lot of reading, and also we’ll be working on a lot of writing as we grapple with new ideas and perspectives. Some of the readings may feel more straightforward than others, and for some, we may need to re-read several times to make sense of what is happening. But to get the most out of this course, you need to get into a habit of reading!
About this site
I’m just setting up the website at the moment. But this will be the place for ongoing course notes from the classes. For every class, I will upload my own class notes for you to read. This will be useful for you to catch up if you miss a class (we’ll talk about attendance in our first class). I’ll also upload any extra links and snippets that may be interesting and fun. So this website is a living document!
I’ve designed the website to be very, very lightweight. This means that it uses a minimal amount of data, and so whatever your device, it should load easily and efficiently.
What isn’t on this site:
- Cool interactive features
- Fancy graphics and animations
- Videos (though I may share links)
- Things you have to log in to access
What is on this site:
- Lots of words! It’s text all the way!
- Useful information.
- My class notes, updated after every class
- Interesting ideas.
- Links to interesting places.
- Nice formatting, to make it easy to read.