You must know all the reading well for exams and paper assignments. I promise you will also find my lectures much more interesting if you complete chapter readings before the lecture to which they correspond. E-mail is a terrific boon to communication and education. We can, for example, exchange topics and problems for discussion in upcoming classes, or point to issues that deserve more attention. Students who do not have userid's should obtain them immediately at the TIS front desk.
Accounts take a day or two to establish.
I intend to peruse our listserv just before class, so I can refer to your ideas or address your questions. We'll also make use of it in our discussion sections. The home page provides an electronic version of most of the material I'll hand out over the course of the semester including the course syllabus, questions for our discussion sections, paper topics, and study guides for the mid-term and final exams. I will be adding other material to it over the course of the semester, and let you know as the new material comes on line. There is an enormous amount of interesting stuff on the Web.