For almost every class meeting there will be a required reading and a required written response. I will collect these responses at the beginning of class each day that they are due. If you keep up with the reading and engage with it at an intelligent level, you will almost certainly do well in the course. As you can see below, half of the final grade is based on engagement with the reading. There will be just one essay, a research paper due at the end of the course, plus a midterm and a final.
Attendance is important.
We cover a lot of ground every day. Maybe modern learning does not improve, but harms, human morals . . . All the themes of the course, and more. Communist Manifesto , continued. More readings on Darwin, to be assigned.