Course Requirements
A midterm assignment (your choice of a take-home exam or a 4–6 page paper)
due Thursday, November 12, and a final assignment (your choice of a take-home
exam or a 4–6 page paper), due Wednesday, December 16. Each of the two
assignments is worth 50% of the course grade.
All paper assignments will be available on-line, and there are be links to them
from this syllabus as well as from my main course page. I will discuss the
assignments in class when the due date draws near. You can find answers to
some commonly asked questions about my assignments and grading in my
FAQ.
Papers are to be handed in, as attachments, via the “Assignments” tool on
Canvas. Please submit in PDF or in a format easily convertible to PDF (e.g.,
MSWord). The system will accept late submissions, but late papers may not
receive full credit. The system is
not set up to allow resubmissions: once you press
the “submit” button, it will not let you change your response. If, however, you
mistakenly submit something and want to change it, please contact me and I can
make an exception.
I understand that conditions may be difficult and will be flexible about due
dates, etc., if necessary. But please try to hand in work on time if you possibly
can.
There be live Zoom lectures at the scheduled course time. Live attendance
at these is not required (in general, I never require attendance at my
lectures), but I highly advise you to attend if possible. It will be difficult
for me to teach if there is no live audience at all. However, all lectures
will also be recorded and made available for viewing later (on YouTube).
Links to the recorded lectures will appear on this syllabus as they are put
up.