This course in unique in having orientated it's course submission around each students individual blog. You are asked to create your own blog (with blogspot.com or equivalent) and post each week from the beginning of the course. This year the course begins in the second week of the first semester- week beginning 29th September 2014. Whilst you may be initially nervous about putting your thoughts out there, I assure you of the benefits to your confidence and writing capability that come with the discipline of sitting down and getting to work each week and the pleasure of pressing the 'publish' button. Remember you are not writing an essay at the end of this course.
You will also find plenty of Critical Thinking blogs out there, including some from AA students attending my courses. I have read them all over the years, but be aware that the texts change year by year, and that it is your own critical development we are interested in and not somebody else's. Do not try and fake the process, we are well aware of the limits of theory teaching in undergraduate architecture programmes and if you punch above your weight; it's obvious. Learning to read critically is not rocket science, so please avoid that horrible tendency to pretension; words such as 'ecosophy' or 'syncretism' are not appreciated. Other aspects of style we will discuss as we go along; that's part of the fun.
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