These policies will be announced in class and on the class website during the second week of the semester and will become effective the third week of the semester. The goal of the first paper is to link a presidential candidate with a social class constituency. The second paper involves writing up the results of an interview with a member of a racial or ethnic minority group. The goal of the interview is to obtain the interviewee's opinion about the greatest problem that his or her group currently faces. Students who are themselves minority group members must interview someone belonging to a group other than their own.
Additional handouts describe the expectations for each paper in greater detail.
Both students, TAs, and the professor will be involved in an interactive teaching system called Classtalk. The students' speech patterns are projected onto a screen at the front of the room. Because this approach is time consuming, only a few class sessions will draw upon it. The first one is scheduled for Thursday, September 21 at which time students will learn how to use the hand-held calculators. For this reason, all students are required to be in class on that date.