Additional material detailing these two assignments will be provided later in the semester. Proposals for the paper and the in-class report will be due in class on January 30 . Grades for the class will be based on class discussion, the oral presentation, the final paper and a final examination. The final exam will be a take-home with a limited page length. It will be a synthesis of the semester's material.
All reading is to be completed before the day on which it is assigned.
Usually we will split up the assignments for the week in advance. Readings in the first 2-3 weeks may be review for some students in the class, while others will be encountering these perspectives for the first time. Since some of this material serves as a foundation for the later readings in the course, I ask that the more advanced students in the class be patient and contribute their own expertise to the discussion of these subjects. Introduction to the course . And other burning questions of our age. . . .