The course emphasis is involves individual and group participation. Active course interaction and active participation is a requirement for this course, between the student and between members assigned to study groups. I cannot emphasize the importance of participation to our learning process. I will factor the level of participation into the final grade. There are two, important, remaining points to the course philosophy.
Many students are comfortable working in a linear learning environment.
That is, information processing . This is a case study-based course. It requires analytical skills not just merely summarizing the facts. I normally ask my university students this question on the first day of class. This is correct.