EDHI 602 RNA

10.3.17

(4/4 of) American Hookup by Lisa Wade

Chapter 9:

• is the alarmingly high rate of sexual assault on college campuses the result of hookup culture?
• “The feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon once argued that rape was not prohibited…

9.26.17

Past to Present: A Historical Look at Retention by Berger, Blanco Ramírez, and Lyons (2012)

• the vocab on page 12 is very helpful
• retention wasn’t always an issue because there weren’t always thousands of students
• around 1970 is when…

9.19.17

Sex on Campus: She Can Play That Game, Too by Kate Taylor (2013)

• interesting that the women thought that talking openly about sex and hooking up would have negative consequences
• relationships seen as a four-credit class lol

9.12.17

30 Essential Skills for the Qualitative Researcher by John W. Creswell — Chapter 14: Conducting a Good Observation

My senior year of undergrad, I took an introductory course on research methods in the field of communication. Reading this chapter was a great refresher on how to conduct a…

9.05.17

‘Academically Adrift’ : The News Gets Worse and Worse by Kevin Carey (2012)

“American higher education is characterized by limited or no learning for a large proportion of students”

According to the book, Academically Adrift, college students are learning very…