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Adam Morton's Course - Home
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This is an edited-down version of the web page for the course I gave at Oklahoma in Spring 03.
About the Course
The course had an enrolment of about 90 and had to be taught as a single class meeting twice a week for 75 minutes. It was a fairly internet-centered course. The students had to get course information from the web page, consult the ‘course diary’ on it when preparing for tests and get some of the reading via links on the page.
The course had two unusual features:
- We followed a fixed trajectory only up to mid-term. At the end of this half-course we voted between topics on a menu that I had prepared on the basis of what seemed to interest the class most. Not all the topics corresponded to sections in Philosophy in Practice.
- After spring break - and before we began on these topics that had won the vote - there was a week without classes, during which I and two graduate student assistants had a fifteen minute interview with each student in the course on the basis of a form they had filled out to plan their term paper. This was a compulsory part of the course. If you don’t have any such oversight many of the papers go off in wrong directions, and in my experience commenting on drafts of undergraduate papers doesn’t help as students do not take much of the advice and simply cut out rather than rewriting sections one has criticised. But if you can get your advice in before they begin writing you can have more influence.
About This Site
Here you will find:
- My sample tests, with answers. The answers were put on the web after the students had taken each test, of course, but they were expected to check their wrong answers against the explanations and then to see me if they thought they had been mis-marked or, if they could having read my explanation, defend their answer. Several did.
- My course diary (a brief outline of what happened in each class)
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