This class is not a lecture-course. It is a seminar. Therefore, the responsibility for working through the material and structuring an effective learning environment falls to each member of the seminar community. Because the environment of the course is interactive and collaborative, it is necessary that seminar members attend and participate in every class meeting.
Attendance is, therefore, mandatory.
This guideline is not inflexible and is subject to change due to individual circumstances. This alteration, however, must be confirmed with the instructor. Seminar members are expected to emerge from all course preparations and research with ideas and ways of expressing them that are recognizably ones own.