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Winter, 2014
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Name ________________________
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We plan several questionnaires about your experiences and skills. Their purpose is to show what special qualities you might contribute to the coure, and to encourage you to relate Humboldt's life and work to your own. Use the field to the right of each question to record brief responses. For yes/no questions, either circle one of "y/n" (if it's there) or circle/√checkmark the item itself to mean "yes", or cross it out to mean "no". DO NOT UNDERLINE A RESPONSE - it's too confusing. At the end of the questionnaire is a short activity that will produce a writing sample and the start of a class discussion.
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SKILLS - GRAPHIC: Can you sketch two animals or plants that are similar, but do so with enough accuracy that someone else can tell them apart? (example: gorilla / chimpanzee, oak tree / maple tree)
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y / n
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SKILLS - GRAPHIC: Can you process graphics files beyond the level of your computer's photo album software?
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y / n
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SKILLS - MOBILITY: Can you…? ("ride horse" means beyond guided group rides at a resort)
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swim; navigate a small boat / canoe; ride a horse
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SKILLS - MUSIC: If you hear a short melody, can you reproduce it by…?
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voice; instrument; notation
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SKILLS - WRITING: Does your formal writing differ in "voice" from your informal writing? (writing here = several paragraphs)
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y / n
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SKILLS - CALCULATION: Can you calculate, without reference to a book, the area of a…?
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triangle; rectangle; circle
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SKILLS - CALCULATION: Can you calculate, without reference to a book, the volume of a…?
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rectangular solid; cylinder; sphere; cone; pyramid
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SKILLS - LANGUAGES: Can you speak another language well enough to…? Name your best non-native language, if you have one:
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express short personal introduction; tell how you got lost; discuss politics & culture
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SKILLS - SCIENCES: Can you use a plant guide to tell the difference between, say, a fir tree and a pine tree?
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y / n
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SKILLS - SCIENCES: Can you give the Latin (scientific) names of two parts of the human body (bones, muscles, organs, sub-parts)? Examples: medulla oblongata, Islands of Langerhans, latissimus dorsi
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Latin names:
Common (English) names of same:
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SKILLS - SCIENCES: Can you name and write the formula for some chemical other than H2O and CO2?
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substance:
formula:
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SKILLS - ANTHROPOLOGY: Can you differentiate between "matrilineal", "matrilocal" and "matriarchal"?
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y / n
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SKILLS - ORIENTEERING: If the sky is clear, can you point toward North at…
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night
day (whatever the time)
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SKILLS - GROUP: Can you do "granting" and other fund-raising / schmoozing?
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SKILLS - GROUP: Can you "read" people?
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Please feel free to create up to 3 of your own similar questions and answers, especially if you feel this questionnaire has neglected your areas of experience and expertise:
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Now consider again one of the skills you have been asked about. In the space below or on the back of this page, |