Distance makes the heart grow fonder, they say, and closing that distance can be dizzying.
We stand at a certain distance from one another and our modes of social organization place us in degrees, estates, classes, roles, and occupations. Your task is to read each text with a focus on some particular kind of distance or learning and to carry that through the term into the development of a paper, using at least two works of the course. Decide early on this focus and do some of your response papers with it in mind, and you will save yourself a good deal of sleep in the week before the paper is due. Students who are habitually late may be assigned an additional response paper.