How Will This Course Be Run?
 

*** Team Teaching This class is a team taught adventure.  We have never tried team teaching on this scale in our department before.  We are working hard to get the kinks out, but please bear with us.  In general, team teaching has advantages and disadvantages for you.  The biggest advantage, of course, its that you get variety, and the opportunity to profit from our different areas of expertise.  The biggest disadvantage is that no single person is running the show.  For the sake of efficiency, it would be best if you directed all procedural questions (about schedules, dates, quizzes, policies, etc.) to Prof. Barbour, or to your AI.  On the other hand,  it might make more sense for you to direct your questions about lecture to the person who actually gave it.  If you are feeling confused about what is going on or where we are in this class at any time, hit this panic button.  We will do our best to straighten you out! ***Readings There is one textbook for this course: James F. Hoge and Gideon Rose, How DId it Happen: Terrorism and the New War.  It is available in paper at the book store.  All the other readings will be made available to class members electronically on the password protected weekly activity site.  Class visitors can find references for the readings on the schedule page.  Non-copyright protected material has been made available on that site as well.   ***Class Decorum Radio and TV is videotaping this entire class for us.  We are very grateful to them, and we will be grateful to you for conducting yourselves in such a way that you are invisible and inaudible to the cameras, unless you have a question or comment for the professor teaching the class.  In practical terms, this means please do not carry on any conversations, giggle, pass around martinis (yes, this once happened in one of my classes!), or otherwise look like you are having more fun than the instructor.  Not only will this mess up the taping, but it is distracting for us, annoying for your colleagues, and will result in the subtraction of Good Citizen's Points from your account. And while I (Prof. Barbour) am on my soapbox, please remember that WH100 is our communal space.  I have another class in this room on Mondays and Wednesdays after you folks leave, and many more people will share it throughout the day.  PLEASE DO NOT TRASH IT!!!!  Pick up all your garbage (coffee cups, newspapers, etc.) and dispose of them on your way out.  This is harder to keep track of, but if I see egregious offenders, there go those GCPs!    ***Grading Grading in this course will be done mostly by machines and your AIs. If you have any questions about your grade, please talk first to your AI. Naturally, in case of disagreement, Prof. Barbour will be happy to be the final court of appeal.   *** Cheating We are sorry it is necessary to have a policy on this but plagiarism and cheating will not be tolerated in this class. If using words which are not your own -- whether a sentence, a paragraph or a longer passage -- put them in quotation marks and attribute them to the proper source. In-class quizzes are closed book, closed notes.  Duplicate exercises will be assumed to be the product of cheating.  There is software that can detect similar answers on exercises submitted electronically so beware!!! Any student caught plagiarizing or cheating will receive an F for the entire course and we will report it to the Dean. This means, among other things, that you will be unable to FX the course.