For each required event, there is assigned reading material that will help you better appreciate the upcoming event. Read this material before you attend the event. These readings will also be part of class discussion and would be useful as part of your paper on the event. Take great care, however, to not plagiarize from the reading or from any other written material. For some events, additional material can be found on web sites that will be provided to you.
Academic credit is earned when students demonstrate that they have learned something in a course.
In this course, you will demonstrate what you have learned through the written assignments or critiques that you will complete for each event, and from class discussions about the events. Acceptable papers are those in which you demonstrate that you have learned something from attending the event, the class discussion that followed, and the assigned reading. We want you to express your opinions and to support them with relevant information. Your paper will be assessed in terms of your demonstration of learning and in terms of your presentation and defense of your opinions, not in terms of the opinions themselves. Prepare your papers using a word processor.