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Week 7
GC Memo

UMD Department letterhead.23 February 2025               

What’s Happening Week 7?

We have two big events this week . . .

(1) the Midterm Exam, and

(2) After the exam we’re going to attend some “Great Gatherings” in Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Peru, and the good ol’ U.S.A. And we’ll have a look along the way at how important gatherings are to people around the world, and especially ritual and religious gatherings.

In our Discussion this week we’ll reflect on Rituals, Gatherings, and Ritual Gatherings, and the Great Gatherings.

And, in addition, we brush up on the news for Malaysia and Israel, two of what Gannon and Pillai call “Cleft National Cultures.”

We close the week asking you to take a brief survey, to help judge where we are on our own journey towards Understanding Global Cultures.

Week 7 Overview

GC Wk7 OVERVIEW TO BEGIN MODULE 7.


Week 7 Wrap-UP

GC Wk7 WRAP-UP.


Questions? / Comments / Suggestions . . .

If you have any questions or comments right now, please do not hesitate to post them on the “Discussions”, or e-mail troufs@d.umn.edu, or ZOOM https://umn.zoom.us/my/troufs Links to an external site.. (E-mail is fastest, and most generally best as quite often URLs need be sent.)

Best Wishes,

Tim Roufs

<http://www.d.umn.edu/~troufs/>

<https://umn.zoom.us/my/troufs Links to an external site.>

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Scene from the film Great Gatherings, showing man putting skewer through cheek of another man.

Scene from the film Great Gatherings, showing man with arms spread in a ceremony.