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| Preface for Instructors | |
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| Introduction for Students: Critical Strategies for Academic Situations | |
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| Defining: Negotiating Meanings | |
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| Defining across the Curriculum | |
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| Opening Problem: Defining Intelligence | |
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| Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences | |
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| Working Examples | |
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| A Working Example Using the Word Model | |
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| Working Examples from Political Science | |
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| A Professional Application | |
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| From Emotional Intelligence: When Smart Is Dumb | |
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| Assignments | |
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| A Language Assignment | |
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| A Word History Assignment | |
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| A Personal Essay Assignment | |
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| A Biology Assignment | |
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| A Psychology Assignment | |
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| A Genetics Assignment | |
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| A History Assignment | |
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| An Ecology Assignment | |
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| Readings: Reconsidering Intelligence | |
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| From Working Knowledge: Skill and Community in a Small Shop | |
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| The Shape of Life | |
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| From Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America | |
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| From "The Social Organization of Distributed Cognition" | |
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| From Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea | |
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| Further Assignments | |
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| Summarizing: Synthesis and Judgment | |
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| Summarizing across the Curriculum | |
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| Opening Problem: Summarizing Trends in Child Poverty | |
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| Child Poverty Is Abundant | |
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| Working Examples | |
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| A Working Example from Psychology | |
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| A Working Example from Sociology | |
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| A Working Example from Folklore | |
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| A Professional Application | |
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| The New International Division of Labor | |
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| Assignments | |
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| An Anthropology Assignment | |
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| A Biology Assignment | |
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| An Oral History Assignment | |
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| An Anthropology Assignment | |
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| An Economics Assignment | |
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| A Literature Assignment | |
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| A Composition Assignment | |
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| Readings: The Dimensions of Child Poverty | |
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| (for the Children's Defense Fund), From Wasting America's Future: The Children's Defense Fund Report on the Costs of Child Poverty | |
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| From The Welfare of Children | |
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| Poverty | |
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| On the Meaning of Plumbing and Poverty | |
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| The Lessons of Successful Programs | |
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| Further Assignments | |
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| Serializing: Establishing Sequence | |
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| Serializing across the Curriculum | |
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| Opening Problem: Constructing a Serial Account | |
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| The Lindbergh Case | |
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| Working Examples | |
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| A Working Example from Biology | |
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| Working Examples from Literature | |
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| Working Examples from History | |
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| A Professional Application | |
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| From The Alchemy of Race and Rights | |
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| Assignments | |
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| A Geography Assignment | |
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| A Criminal Studies Assignment | |
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| A Literature Assignment | |
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| A Biology Assignment | |
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| A History Assignment | |
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| An Astronomy Assignment | |
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| A Geology Assignment | |
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| Readings: Crime Stories: Constructing Guilt and Innocence | |
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| Profile of Filmmaker Errol Morris | |
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| From All the President's Men | |
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| Woburn, Science, and the Law | |
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| From Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes | |
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| From Reconstructing Reality in the Courtroom: Justice and Judgment in American Culture | |
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| Further Assignments | |
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| Classifying: Creating and Evaluating Categories | |
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| Classifying across the Curriculum | |
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| Opening Problem: Classifying Characteristics of Immigration to the United States | |
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| Tables and Charts on Immigration to the United States, 1820-1990 | |
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| Working Examples | |
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| A Working Example from Sociology | |
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| A Working Example from Public Health | |
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| A Professional Application | |
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| Five Myths about Immigration | |
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| Assignments | |
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| A Psychology Assignment | |
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| A Composition Assignment | |
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| An Anthropology Assignment | |
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| An Art Assignment | |
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| A Biology Assignment | |
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| A Sociology Assignment | |
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| A Literature Assignment | |
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| A Linguistics Assignment | |
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| Readings: U.S. Immigration Patterns | |
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| The Historical Context of Immigration | |
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| From American Immigration | |
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| From Pioneers to Eternity: Norwegians on the Prairie | |
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| From Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars: Life and Culture on the Lower East Side, 1890-1925 | |
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| From Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 | |
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| From Immigrant America: A Portrait | |
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| Further Assignments | |
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| Comparing: Assessing Similarities and Differences | |
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| Comparing across the Curriculum | |
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| Opening Problem: Comparing Two Primatologists | |
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| Conversations with a Gorilla | |
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| More Years with Mountain Gorillas | |
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| Working Examples | |
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| A Working Example from the History of Science | |
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| A Working Example from American History | |
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| A Professional Application | |
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| Probing Primate Thoughts | |
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| Assignments | |
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| A Literature Assignment | |
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| An Anthropology Assignment | |
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| An Education Assignment | |
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| A History Assignment | |
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| A Literature Assignment | |
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| A Science Assignment | |
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| Readings: Methods of Inquiry in Primate Research | |
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| How Nim Chimpsky Changed My Mind | |
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| Look Who's Talking Now | |
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| The Black Box | |
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| Not a Nice Death | |
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| From How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species | |
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| From "Ethological Studies of Chimpanzee Vocal Behavior" | |
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| Further Assignments | |
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| Analyzing: Perspectives for Interpretation | |
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| Analyzing across the Curriculum | |
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| Opening Problem: Analyzing a Short Story | |
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| The Two Grandmothers | |
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| Challenges of the Struggle for Sovereignty: Changing the World versus Writing Short Stories | |
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| Working Examples | |
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| A Working Example from Psychology | |
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| A Working Example from Biology | |
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| A Working Example from Political Science | |
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| A Professional Application | |
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| From The Caribbean: Survival, Struggle, and Sovereignty | |
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| Assignments | |
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| A Psychology Assignment | |
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| An Education Assignment | |
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| An Economics Assignment | |
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| A Science Assignment | |
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| A Literature Assignment | |
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| A Sociology Assignment | |
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| Readings: Caribbean Literature and Cultural Politics | |
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| Nation Language | |
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| From Crick Crack Monkey | |
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| From The Caribbean: Survival, Struggle, and Sovereignty | |
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| From Abeng | |
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| From A Small Place | |
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| Visiting | |
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| Further Assignments | |
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| Appendix: Assignments for Field Study | |
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| Greeting Behavior of College Students | |
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| Defining Literacy | |
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| What's Funny? | |
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| Exploring the Discourse of Your Major | |
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| Perspectives for Exploring the Discourse of Your Major | |
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| Optional Readings: Complicating the Issues | |
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| Vocationalism and the Curriculum | |
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| Gender, Language, and Pedagogy | |
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| If You Want to Be a Scholar | |
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| Academic Discourse: Community or Communities? | |
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| Tyrannical Machines | |
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| The Enriched Major | |
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| Rethinking the Cultures of Disciplines | |
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| Scholars Debate the Pros and Cons of Anonymity in Internet Discussions | |
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| Further Assignments for Exploring the Discourse of Your Major | |
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| Index of Authors and Titles | |