20%          Participation (including learning the wiki and other web-based technologies) and Preparation (including quizzes/brief writing assignments, like our facebook discussions and your journal pages)

20%          Discussion leadership [signup page] and secondary source presentation [signup page]

30%          Essays 1 and 2 (4-5pgs each; please note formatting, research, and writing requirements)

10%          Web Research Pages OR Revision and expansion of a short formal essay (8-10pgs)

20%          Midterm and Final Exams

Facebook Discussions: Each week, I will post a prompt to generate discussion for the following class period. You may either respond to this prompt yourself, or you may respond to another peer's post. In each case, your response should be as specific and as precise as possible, drawing where necessary or useful on the reading material. Each post should be approximately 300-350 words in length. Before class, please be sure to return to these posts and get a sense of what each of your peers has been thinking about!