Course Requirements

This is an introductory undergraduate course that will combine lecture and seminar formats. As such, it will emphasize each participant's regular and active collaboration in class discussions based upon careful and sustained critical attention to the readings. Course meetings will be structured around the reading and discussion of selections from one major text, or from a few shorter texts, and thus will put a premium on class attendance and participation.

Written work required for the course will consist of:
a) a mid-term essay exam (5-7 pages in length), for which exam questions will be distributed on Thursday, October 18, and which will be due on Thursday, October 25; and ...
b) a final research paper (10-12 pages in length) discussing a theme or topic that emerges in various ways in the course readings and which you develop through further research -- a one-page abstract of which will have been submitted by Thursday, November 15; final papers are due on Friday, December 14.

Grading will be determined according to the following formula:
regular class attendance and consistently active participation, 40%;
mid-term essay exam, 30%;
final paper, 30%.