1) The largest part of the coursework will be the Course Notebook. This must be a 3-ring binder with divider tabs for the following sections (in any order):

The Course Notebook will be collected four times during the semester and will be worth 50% of your grade.

2) Next, class participation is extremely important in this course. You will be expected to participate regularly (and preparedly!) in class and group discussions. This involves group activities, also. This component is worth 25% of your final grade.

3) In keeping with the Universitys recent thrust to include speech components in selected classes, each student will participate in a mini-debate. These will occur two times in the semester, with half the class participating in each. These sessions fall after each of the Position Papers, so that you may choose to use the same issue you have written on, if there is another student willing to take the opposite side of the issue. The mini-debate is worth 10%.

4) Finally, each group (groups will be assigned) will create its own "magazine" to share with the rest of the class. This will include articles, artwork, and whatever else the group wants to do. This magazineand the groups work together beforehandwill comprise 15% of each students grade.