Week 1, August 27th: What are your academic goals for this semester? What about your personal situation has the potential to hinder you from your goals? How might you overcome these potential hinderances?

Week 2, September 3rd: You have worked hard to be able to be in college, studying physics. Discuss some of your hopes, dreams, fears, and expectations for this semester.

Week 3, September 10th: Discuss one of the best things that you've seen, heard, done, or had happen to you during these first days at WKU. Discuss one of the worst things that you've seen, heard, done, or had happen to you during these first days at WKU.

Week 4, September 17th: People, places, sights, sounds, and actions all affect our 'space', just as we affect the space of others. Discuss what your space is like here at WKU. If it is not as good as it could be, what might you do to improve the situation?

Week 5, September 24th: In which section of math are you enrolled (give the class, meeting time and name of instructor)? What strategies did you use to prepare for the first exam in your math class? How did you do on the first math exam? How are you altering your test preparation strategy for the next exam?

Week 6, October 1st: Despite the reasons presented in the Gardner and Jeweler text for the superiority of team learning or collaborative learning, discuss at least three benefits to working/studying alone. What factors in your life situation and personality influence your decision to divide your time as you have between working/studying in a group versus alone?

Week 7, October 8th: Fall Break, No Journal Entry due this week.

Week 8, October 15th: What kind of feedback have you gotten about how you've been doing in your courses? Do you know what your current grades are? How will you ensure that you meet your academic goals for the semester?

Week 9, October 22nd: Some students have been asked to respond to an e-mailed request for further information related to last week's prompt. The balance of the class should respond to the standing alternative prompt:
What behavior are you considering changing in response to one of the recent assigned readings and/or class discussions, and how will you go about changing that behavior?
And, as always, please accept the open invitation to address/discuss/present any other topic which is on your mind this week.

Week 10, October 29th: One of the justifications for a "Liberal Arts and Science" is that the experience better prepares the student for a life of civic responsibility. Our university is putting increasing emphasis on civic engagement and this course requires that each student make an effort to participate in a public service activity. Define in your own words what you feel is a meaningful definition of civic responsibility or civic engagement. Describe how your past, current, and planned future lifestyle does or does not include such activities.

Week 11, November 5th: Happy Halloween. The nature of this holiday has changed drastically over its history. In our culture, one aspect of what Halloween has come to mean is the chance to masquerade as someone or something else. If you has the chance to magically become someone or something else, who/what would it be? Would it be important to you to be guaranteed that you could recover your existing life at no cost (i.e., the masquerade phase would be like a dream that you woke up from with no impact on your "real" life) or would you like the change to have a lasting impact?

Week 12, November 12th: What is communication like between you and your instructors? Ideally, Western Kentucky University would be for everyone a lively community in which all members - students, facutly, and staff - can discuss ideas, both inside and outside the classroom. Have you found WKU to be a place where you can take part in that kind of dialogue? If so, in what ways has it happened? If not, what suggestions would you make to help such experiences be realized?

Week 13, November 19th: The "Voodoo Science" book discusses multiple aspects of psuedoscientific endeavors. Identify an example of psuedoscience that is not mentioned in "Voodoo Science" and discuss what it is about your example that separates it from "proper" scientific inquiry. Give some reasons why your example exists in today's moden culture if it isn't "proper" science.

Week 14, November 26th: Thanksgiving Break, No Journal Entry due this week

Week 15, December 3rd: Take a look at what you wrote in Week 2 about your "hopes, dreams, fears, and expectations for this semester". Compare your thoughts then with the realities you have experienced. What will you be doing in the next semester to make your college experience as good as it can be?

Week 16, December 10th: As this semester comes to a close, reflect on what you have experienced and how you have changed. Describe one of the semester's high points and why it is such a good memory. Describe one of the semester's low points and why it was such a miserable experience. Discuss some of the thing yoy have altered about your actions and/or your approach to life which could increase the occurance of positive experiences and dcrease the occurance of negative experiences.