COIL Duluth and Quito (Spring 2026)

  Read Jay Heinrichs, Chapters 13-14.   Describe a moment when you saw "logos" in action.  You could describe a moment you deployed logos in attempting to communicate with someone else or a moment you felt it being used on you.  You can describe the way you saw it working in a televised speech, a written essay, or a dialogue in a television show, movie, or drama. You can use political examples, as a politician tries to win your vote, or you can talk about the moment you tried to convince your teacher that you deserved a better grade.  Big stakes or small, personal or public, choose an example that really lets you explain what logos is and how it works.   To complete this, you will need to summarize the communication interaction you are talking about. (50 words) You will need to define the tools of logos you saw at work.  Support your definition using quotations from both of the two chapters of the book that discuss ethos.    When qu...

  Read Jay Heinrichs, Chapters 9-10 & Chapters 22.   Describe a moment when you saw "pathos" in action.  You could describe a moment you deployed pathos in attempting to communicate with someone else or a moment you felt it being used on you.  You can describe the way you saw it working in a televised speech, a written essay, or a dialogue in a television show, movie, or drama. You can use political examples, as a politician tries to win your vote, or you can talk about the moment you tried to convince your teacher that you deserved a better grade.  Big stakes or small, personal or public, choose an example that really lets you explain what pathos is and how it works.   To complete this, you will need to summarize the communication interaction you are talking about. (50 words) You will need to define the tools of pathos you saw at work.  Support your definition using quotations from at least two different chapters of the book (of three th...

  Read Jay Heinrichs, Chapter 1 & Chapters 4-8.   Describe a moment when you saw "ethos" in action.  You could describe a moment you deployed ethos in attempting to communicate with someone else or a moment you felt it being used on you.  You can describe the way you saw it working in a televised speech, a written essay, or a dialogue in a television show, movie, or drama. You can use political examples, as a politician tries to win your vote, or you can talk about the moment you tried to convince your teacher that you deserved a better grade because you have always "been an A student."  Big stakes or small, personal or public, choose an example that really lets you explain what ethos is and how it works.   To complete this, you will need to summarize the communication interaction you are talking about. (50 words) You will need to define the tools of ethos you saw at work.  Support your definition using quotations from at least three diff...

Approach one problem in economic, political, technological, scientific, artistic, literary life that can be understood through global, intercultural, and international lenses. Then, in 300 words, explain what it would mean to approach the problem from a lens of cultural humility instead of cultural competence. As is true of all posts in this public class space, if for reasons of privacy, you prefer not to use your real name or other identifying information, you may choose to do so.  You may also email your instructor about receiving credit without posting in this space.

  Identify one problem in economic, political, technological, scientific, artistic, literary life that can be understood through global, intercultural, and international lenses. Then, in 100 words, explain the problem through the three lenses. As is true of all posts in this public class space, if for reasons of privacy, you prefer not to use your real name or other identifying information, you may choose to do so.  You may also email your instructor about receiving credit without posting in this space.

  Please share your name, your preferred forms of address, including pronouns, and your vision of yourself in one year, five years, and ten years.   As is true of all posts in this public class space, if for reasons of privacy, you prefer not to use your real name or other identifying information, you may choose to do so.  You may also email your instructor about receiving credit without posting in this space.