Full Description
Lost Tribes & Sunken Lands: A Study Guide is a course that challenges students to consider what they think they know and how they know it. During the semester students explore myths and mysteries from far points of the globe and evaluate speculative claims about the peoples of the past. The study guide directs students on this journey through questions that highlight the key themes from the course's readings, lessons, and videos. The study guide helps students discover how to think critically about the things they see, hear, and read.
Contents
Welcome to Lost Tribes and Sunken Lands!!
Lesson 1: Lost Tribes and Sunken Lands: An Introduction
Lesson Checklist
Reading Guide: Feder Text, My Pseudoscience Cheat Sheet & Chapter 1
Reading Guide: Bahn Text, Preface
Reading Guide: Curry—"Trophy Skulls and Beer"
Reading Guide: Lesson 1
Video Watching Guide: "Beyond Science"
Lesson 2: Epistemology: How Do You Know What You Think You Know?
Lesson Checklist
Reading Guide: Feder Text, Chapter 2
Reading Guide: Bahn Text
Reading Guide: Lett: "A Field Guide to Critical Thinking"
Reading Guide: Lesson 2
Video Watching Guide: "Coming into America"
How Do We Know Where It Came from?
Lesson 3: Prejudice and Bias: The Invention of the Indian in North America
Lesson Checklist
Reading Guide: "The White Man's Indian," Berkhofer 1978
Reading Guide: Lovell 1992
Reading Guide: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Chapters 1-23
Reading Guide: Lesson 3
Video Watching Guide: "Did Darwin Kill God?"
Useful Information: How to Access an Academic Journal at UNCG
UNIT 1 ASSIGNMENT
Lesson 4: Critical Thinking, the Scienti?c Method, and Di?usion
Lesson Checklist
Reading Guide: Feder Text, Chapter 5
Reading Guide: Lesson 4
Reading Guide: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Chapters 24-44
Video Watching Guide: "1421: The Year China Discovered America," Part 1
Lesson 5: The Moundbuilder Myth: Who Built North American Earthen Monuments?
Lesson Checklist
Video Watching Guide: "1421: The Year China Discovered America," Part 2
Reading Guide: Feder Text, Chapter 7
Reading Guide: "The Moundbuilders" by Milner
Reading Guide: Typee
Reading Guide: Lesson 5
Lesson 6: People and Their Stu?
Lesson Checklist
Reading Guide: Feder Text, Chapter 6
Reading Guide: Brown 2000
Reading Guide: Lesson 6
Video Watching Guide: "Unearthing Secret America"
UNIT 2 ASSIGNMENT
Lesson 7: The Search for Atlantis—Did It Exist?
Lesson Checklist
Reading Guide: Feder Text, Chapter 8
Reading Guide: Christopher 2002
Reading Guide: Hardersen 2002
Reading Guide: Lesson 7
Video Watching Guide: "National Geographic's Finding Atlantis"
Lesson 8: Pyramids and Mystical Egyptians
Lesson Checklist
Reading Guide: Feder Text, Chapter 10
Reading Guide: Wilkinson 2000
Reading Guide: Fletcher 2009
Reading Guide: Lesson 8
Video Watching Guide: The Egypt Detectives, "The First Egyptians"
Lesson 9: Alien Encounters of the Silliest Kind
Lesson Checklist
Reading Guide: Feder Text, pp. Chapters 3 & 9
Reading Guide: Lesson 9
Video Watching Guide: "Arthur, King of the Britons"
Lesson 10: The Past as the Present: Myth and Culture Heritage
Lesson Checklist
Reading Guide: Feder Text, Chapter 4
Reading Guide: MacDonald, Hung, and Crawford 1995
Reading Guide: Lesson 10
Video Watching Guide: "Thieves of Time: Who Owns the Past?"
UNIT 3 ASSIGNMENT
