Basic Info

  • Instructors:
  • Class Meetings: Tuesday 2:30 - 4:00, Friday 2:30 - 5:30
  • Work/Help Sessions: TBA, in CHE 103

Course Structure and Pacing

We haven't taught a class like this before, but have both wanted to for a long time. And now it's happening. We're really excited to co-create this class with you!

Class Sessions

  • This class meets twice a week: once for 1.5 hours and once for three hours. We will do a wide range of activities in class: discussions, hands-on activities, live coding, and computational explorations

Evaluation

Very Roughly...

  • Engagement in Class Discussions and Activities
  • Short Reflection Assignments
  • Short Computational Explorations and Exercises:
  • Final Project

We do not have any quota of A's, B's, etc. In evaluating work, we're mainly looking for evidence of engagement. We'd like to talk more about my grading (non)philosophy, perhaps in week two, once the course is up and running.

We will discuss the scope and format(s) of the final project toward the middle of the term.

Texts!

There is no required text for this course. In a sense, anything and everythign is a text for this course. :)

Throughout the class we will read and discuss a wide range of essays and articles, including popular essays and op-eds, literary theory, and scholarly articles.

Standard Disclaimers

  • You should expect to spend a minimum of 150 academically engaged hours associated with this one-credit course. These 150 hours will be spent roughly as follows: 4.5 hr/wk in class, 3 hr/wk reading, 7.5 hr/wk on homework.
  • By enrolling in an academic institution, a student is subscribing to common standards of academic honesty. Any cheating, plagiarism, falsifying or fabricating of data is a breach of such standards. A student must make it his or her responsibility to not use words or works of others without proper acknowledgment. Plagiarism is unacceptable and evidence of such activity is reported to the academic dean or his/her designee. Two violations of academic integrity are grounds for dismissal from the college. Students should request in-class discussions of such questions when complex issues of ethical scholarship arise.