This is a current events, case-based discussion course. There are no examinations, either at mid semester or at the end of the semester. This project is worth 40 percent of your final grade. These assignments are weighted at 5 and 10 percent respectively. Class participation is required and weighted at 15 percent.
Grades are somewhat less important, however, than learning outcomes.
We are sensitive to your interest in doing well and will do all that we can to help you. The grading philosophy remains unchanged from the first semester. Your grade for any particular assignment in this course is a reflection of your professor's judgement of the quality of your work. Again, we can grade only on the basis of what you give us, not on what you had sincerely intended to do. Again this semester, as in the last, you will not find grades distributed on a curve.