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PACKBACK DISCUSSION FORUMS: Participation is a requirement for this course, and the Packback Questions platform will be used for online discussion about class topics. Packback Questions is an online curiosity community where you can be fearlessly curious and ask BIG questions about how what we're studying relates to life and the real world. Writing amazing questions and answers on Packback will: -Help you develop writing skills necessary for any career path -Reinforce the imperative skill of justifying thoughts and claims with credible evidence- and then citing the evidence! -Enhance critical thinking sought out by employers -Deepen your understanding of the course content by gaining diverse insights and perspectives from your peers My goals for using Packback are for us to identify themes in the content that we are focusing on each week and to get in the habit of anaylzing current events in academically rigorous ways. These discussion forums are an opportunity to connect with the content and tease out threads that seem interesting or impactful to you. Your Original Post should be a question derived from the content that we are focusing on in that particular module. Use the space in the description of your Original Post to explain how your question connects with the content and share any Your participation on Packback will count towards 13 percent of your final grade. In order to receive your points per week, you must post 1 Question and 2 responses to other students' work per week relevant to our class subject matter per week. Before you start posting, be sure to read the Community Guidelines found in the tutorial on Packback. If your post doesn't follow the Packback Community Guidelines, there is a chance it will be removed and you won't receive points for that post. There will be 11:59pm deadlines for all forums, please see below for the specific due dates, for submissions in your comm