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Syllabus and Schedule

  • Spring 2026
  • Tuesday Evenings
  • CRN: 10272






General Outline

There are 15 class meetings after the first night, with 100 points available for 12 those 15 meetings. In other words you could obtain 1,200 points throughout the course, but you only need 900 for an A.

You decide which assignments you want to complete in order to acquire the grade you seek.

Some of the assignments rely on you having finished former assignments, so if you skip an assignment, that may preclude you from submitting a future assignment.

  • A Grade: 900 or above.
  • B Grade: 800-899.
  • C Grade: 700-799.
  • D Grade: 600-699
  • F grade: 599 and below
  • You cannot turn in late assignments


The Organic Structure

  • There is no set schedule for this course
  • Successive sections of the course are determined by the discussion's direction at the end of each evening; in other words, we do not simply proceed down the page one after the other of each section.
  • Even with advance notice of your absence, there is no possibility of knowing what you will miss.












Submitting Assignments

  • You must use Titan email
  • The Contact page has my address.

    Skip to A, below, if you are submitting an assignment.

    Skip to B, below, if you are emailing me a question or concern.



    A. Submitting an Assignment

    1. The ONLY information in the subject line must be the course
        example
      • PHI 2010
    2. You must attach any assignment as a Word document DIRECTLY to the email.
      • Do not use One Drive or Google docs or Sharepoint or any other intermediary to send attachments.
      • Submit only one assignment per email.
    3. Do NOT put any information at all in the body of the email.
      • If you have a question or concern, send a separate email, see below.
    4. Properly label the filename of any attached file
      • Use Capitalization as per the following example.
      • Start the file name with your Last Name then add the name of the assignment.
      • Check the course schedule or the top of each Level's page for assignment names.
        • SmithBloominOnionsSurvey.docx
        • SmithBloominOnionsLiteratiArticle.docx

    Submitting rewrites of assignments

    • Rewrites must be labeled properly
    • I will be renaming your file names when I send them back to you.
      • STAMPED
      • If I add the word STAMPED, it passed; it is done.
      • SmithSTAMPEDBloominOnionsSurvey.docx
      • Reviewed
      • If I add the word Reviewed, it needs to be fixed and sent back to me.
      • SmithReviewedBloominOnionsSurvey.docx
    • When sending in rewrites to me, follow the above four items listed under A. Submitting an Assignment and then indicate the assignment is a rewrite in the filename.
    • The second word in the file name must indicate it is a rewrite.
      • SmithRewrite1BloominOnionsSurvey.docx
    • If you have a second rewrite (or a third, or a fourth) put that number in the document title.
      • SmithRewrite2BloominOnionsSurvey.docx
    • Remove any words I added to your file name.

2. Asking a Question/relaying information via Email

  • The information in the subject line must be the course AND what the email concerns
      example
    • PHI 2010 Absence
    • PHI 2010 Question
    • In the email, the first sentence must say
      • exactly what the problem is or what the point of the email is.

    Breaking Email Etiquette

    • I want your emails to me to break typical conventions of emailing. Usually people warm up to a point by being nice or slowly working toward a point.
    • In research, in each paragraph, we state and defend.
    • That's how your question or concerns email should be written: State what the problem is then add to that discussion.
    • However, all email communication with me is considered office hours discussion.
    • Follow all typical decorum for such a context.
    • The EFSC Student Code of Conduct applies to all email communication
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