Reading for each of the topics to be covered will be web-based, but can be printed out from the web or downloaded to disks and read via web browser on your home computer. Reading must be done in advance of class discussion and discussion notes must be EMAILED to edpapen@erols.com by 10 a.m. on the day discussion is scheduled. Notes should focus on a critical reading of the argument and the sources in the assignment as they relate to the period covered or topic to be discussed. Notes should review the high points of the reading, but also should raise questions about what the reading fails to cover. In preparing discussions notes summarize the argument and prepare a list of questions you have about the reading or sources. Be critical of what you read. Use the resources of the WEB and indexes available in the library to supplement the reading whereever possible, listing in your notes the works consulted.
Discussion notes should not exceed five single-spaced pages per assignment.