The Final Examination will consist of the final submission of your journal and your assessment portfolio. These are due on Saturday, December 13th. They should be named "username.jo2" and "username.po2" respectively.

The Journal - "Username.jo2"

Re-read your journals carefully. In this final submission you should make any corrections I have called for, respond to comments I have made, and add any further comments you care to make. You should take my comments out of this copy, unless you need to keep them to respond to them. In this second copy you can add to, delete, or change your original entries. This is the most important part of your final examination.

As well as your usual entries, this journal entry should also include:

  1. A critique of your original model of identity ("username.002"). What is wrong with that model, how would you change it for the better and why? What is accurate about that model, what would you keep and why? (about 300 words)

  2. An entry on the final plenary lecture and the bulletin board discussion of that lecture.

  3. A brief (c. 100 words) assessment of the Inquiry course so far. What have you found helpful, interesting, or informative about it? What have you found frustrating or unpleasant about it?

The Portfolio - "Username.po2"

Re-read your October portfolio carefully. You can use materials from it, but you should re-work that, improve, and add to the contents (with the exception of #3 below). The portfolio should include:

  1. A copy of the answers to the four course questions with my comments on them as they were returned to you. Along with this you will write a brief (c. 100 words) commentary on how your answers to the first two questions may have changed since your first draft and since your mid-term submission.

  2. A self-evaluation of your own ability at the course skills listed on the syllabus. You should attach a copy of one piece of graded work, I recommend a paper from your writing class, but if there is no suitable paper, a section of your journal will suffice. Again the professor’s comments should accompany the paper or entry. You should use that piece of work as evidence to support your self-evaluation.

  3. This third element can be identical to that submitted in October.
    An entry that is a self-evaluation of how you have made and plan to make personal/academic choices (courses, majors etc.). You should consider honestly how your past choices have been made. Did you actually make choices or simply avoid them and go along with the easiest option (like the bystanders in the Emperor's New Clothes)? If you did make choices, how did you know which to make? Did you apply classification? Analysis? An understanding of cause/effect relationships? (c.100 words)

  4. A statement on the role of the physical self and the thinking or mental self in shaping individual identity. A statement on the role of other "selves" involved in the formation of individual identity (for example, social, literary, imaginary, or ideal "selves" - c.100 words each)



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