Faculty First Year Seminars 191SOC9 - How to Be Totally Analog/50min

Fall
2025
01
1.00
Sanjiv Gupta

W 2:30PM 3:20PM

UMass Amherst
69915
Lederle Grad Res Tower Rm 431
sangupta@soc.umass.edu
We'll practice the core college skill of sustained attention by going totally free of digital tools--phones, computers, screens etc--for 50 minutes. We'll do this for a few minutes at first, and build up over the semester to the full 50 minutes. How will we fill the time without any digital tools? By talking, listening, observing, drawing, walking outside (or alternatives if you can't walk), being quiet, reading and writing on paper, and most importantly, getting used to being bored.

First-year (R1ST)

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.