Schedule

Summary

Date Event or Deadline
Jan. 16 Class begins - Section One begins
Jan. 22 Opening Essay due
Jan. 29 Last day to add this course
Feb. 18 Section One Exercise due
Section One ends
Feb. 19 Section Two begins
Submit term paper topic(s)
Feb. 27 Last day to drop this course
March 4 Thesis and Bibliography due
March 25 Section Two Exercise due
Section Two ends
March 26 Spring Break - no discussion required
April 2 Class begins again after Spring Break
Section Three begins
April 22 Term Paper due
April 30 Section Three Exercise due
May 5 Ending Essay due
May 6 Section Three ends
Last day of class discussion
May 10 No assignments accepted after today, midnight (MST)

Weekly Listing

Week Date Section Notes Assignments
1 1-15-2007 1 Class actually begins 1-16

Participate in discussion

Post introduction to the Student Lounge by 1-19

Submit Opening Essay by 1-22

2 1-22-2007 1 Start browsing the course site and your textbooks looking for term paper ideas. Participate in discussion
3 1-29-2007 1 Keep looking! Participate in discussion
4 2-5-2007 1 You should have a list of possibilities by now and should be doing initial research to see if there are enough books on your topic Participate in discussion
5 2-12-2007 1 Narrow down to two (maybe three) possibilities, make a bibliography for each, and sketch out a thesis statement for each

Participate in discussion

Section 1 Exercise is due (2-18)

6 2-19-2007 2

Participate in discussion

Submit term paper topic(s) (2-19)

7 2-26-2007 2

Participate in discussion

Thesis and Bibliography due (3-4)

8 3-5-2007 2 Start writing your term paper. No, seriously.

Participate in discussion

9 3-12-2007 2 Keep writing!

Participate in discussion

10 3-19-2007 2 By now you should have figured out if you really can write this paper or if you are going to have to change your thesis or maybe even your topic.

Participate in discussion

Section 2 Exercise is due (3-25)

11 3-26-2007 n/a Spring Break! No discussion participation is required
12 4-2-2007 3 Your term paper should be done by the end of this week. Participate in discussion
13 4-9-2007 3 Spend this week polishing.

Participate in discussion

14 4-16-2007 3 I'll be grading term papers this week.

Participate in discussion

Term Paper due (4-22)

15 4-23-2007 3 You get your paper back and decide if you want to do a rewrite.

Participate in discussion

Section 3 Exercise is due (4-29)

16 4-30-2007 3

Participate in discussion

Submit Ending Essay (May 5)

Term Paper rewrite due (May 10)