Biology 105
Biology of Exercise
Spring 2003


The journal assignment

You will keep a journal during the semester, writing approximately one entry per week. The journal is intended to provide an opportunity for you to connect the class material to your own interests and to material from other sources. The intent is to encourage you to connect the course to other aspects of your life and to enable you to create a document that describes these connections. One model for journal entries is the Jerome book; in many of his passages, he connects a personal experience with some aspect of exercise science.

Journal entries should be no more than one typed page and no less than one full paragraph. They must be typed (double or 1.5 spaced, 12 point font, 1 inch margins). Each journal entry should connect an out-of-class experience (see list of categories below) to the Biology or Exercise course content. The first line of each journal entry should be a heading that includes the date and the category (below). This assignment is cumulative; you will hand in your entire set of journal entries at each due-date. It might be easiest to write them all within a single word-processing file.

Journal assignment 1 - due 2/14/03
Hand in at least 3 journal entries, from at least 2 of the seven categories below.

  1. A Kenyon College sporting event (you must attend the event!). Click here for Kenyon athletic schedules.
  2. Some aspect of your own exercise, athletics, diet, health, or fitness.
  3. Something that you have read in the popular press (magazines, newspapers, etc) or seen on the TV news.
  4. Another course you are taking (or have taken).
  5. A passage from the Jerome Book.
  6. A sporting event that you have watched on TV.
  7. A website that you have visited.

Journal assignment 2 - due 3/31/03

Hand in at least 5 journal entries from at least 3 of the seven categories above. Your entries from assignment 1 are included in the 5, you need 2 new entries. You may also edit, expand, or replace entries from assignment 1.

Journal assignment 3 - due 5/2/03

Hand in at least 7 journal entries from at least 4 of the seven categories above. Your entries from assignment 1 and 2 are included in the 7, you need 2 new entries. You may also edit, expand, or replace entries from assignment 1 and 2.

Evaluation and grading criteria:
Excellent journals will:
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