This one's going to be a doozy... I can already tell. Two accelerated classes, lots of homework, lots of reading. Not much time to come up for air - but I'll make it.
Many Nations of Native America. Five books, four assignments, two exams, one essay, and lots to learn. But it will be fun; just seven students in class and the prof (Sunny Lybarger) seems really interesting. Getting her PhD in Philosophy/American Indian Art, she's Comanche (at least part) and very knowledgeable on the subject matter. We're covering three tribal areas and some general stuff about law, policy, and education. First is the Northwest Coast Indians including the Makah tribe and the whaling debate, then the Tohono O'odham here in southern Az, and the Anishinaabe (or Ojibwe, or Algonkin) tribe in the northeast U.S. and Canada. We'll be covering both contemporary and historical issues; holding a "potlatch" (which has something to do with food!), and an in-class debate on the whaling issue.
Business Mathematics II. Six quizzes, six group homework assignments, six individual homework assignments, two oral reports, two exams and a final. Yikes. But, like Business Math I, this is about "real" stuff like demand, revenue, cost, profit, variances, differentiation, and distributions. In our first oral report we are to choose a new product that our "company" invented that is about to hit the market. We will have some givens: raw material costs, development outlays, demand compilations from test markets, etc., and will find a reasonable price for our product in the $200-$300 range. We'll use a quadratic function to determine maximum profit given the demand and adjust from there. Should be fun!
I'm glad I had a relative easy first summer semester and a wonderful week off for family reunion. I didn't really need a life this summer anyway, did I?!
10 months ago
