Presumably if you are in this course, it is because you have some kind of desire, interest, or need to reconsider how you use your time. You are probably taking this as part of your Educational Planning requirement and are seeking to improve your time-management skills to that you can be a more successful student. You may also be here because you have an interest in learning more about the ways different people, different societies, different cultures, or different organizations deal with time.

Your very first assignment (due at the end of week one) is to write a description of your own goals for this course. What do you hope to get out of it? What would you like to have learned and/or accomplished by the end? You may want to write this as a short paper, a couple of paragraphs, or even as a bullet list of goals accompanied with some sentences clarifying each bullet. The format is less important than the sincere thought you put into articulating goals that are truly meaningful to you. Ask yourself, therefore, how the goals you are thinking of are particularly relevant to you.

GRADING GUIDANCE: A higher standard for this assignment would be to write at least 1 page, double spaced, and to be specific about issues regarding ' time' that you may face in your life, questions you have about time in culture, philosophy and time, or other ways in which you are thinking about time. What questions do you bring to the course, what do you hope to explore for yourself related to time?