Philip West, et. Attendance at all class sessions is required. We will have an online listserv for the course. This should be a bit of analysis, not just a summary. Students must refer to at least some of the questions and issues on the first page of this syllabus.
Students can also refer to the online comments of other students.
We may refine this part of the course requirements as the semester goes along. In addition, each week a student will present the assigned reading, relating the book or articles to the focus of the course, to previous discussions, and to the online comments for that week. This presentation will last no more than 10-15 minutes. Each presenter will also distribute to the class a brief handout reflecting their oral presentation. The paper will be based largely on primary sources, preferably including at least some archival material from the Dodd Center, the JFK or FDR Presidential libraries, Yale, Harvard, etc.