How We Work Together
Weekly Seminar:
Seminar will consist of mini-lectures, seminar discussion guided by the professor, and open conversations where each of you present and share.
Readings:
All readings are available via PDFs linked to on this site.
Attendance:
I support and understand your potential need throughout the semester to miss class (up to the equivalent of one week) for illness or other life challenges, provided that you communicate with me about these absences. When you miss beyond a week of class, you will need to complete makeup work to replace the work missed, and some content will not be available.
Access:
We all learn differently. If there are aspects of this course that prevent you from learning or exclude you, please let me know as soon as possible. Together we’ll develop strategies to meet both your needs and the requirements of the course.
Extension Requests:
I accept work within a week of a deadline, with a 5% grade reduction. Unless previously arraigned by email conversation, I do not accept work outside of the one-week extension window.
Technology and Generative AI
Technology: Being intellectually and emotionally present in this class is a choice we all make. Your presence is not something we can demand of you, nor is it something any of us should take for granted. I encourage you to be present for yourself, your classmates, conversation, and open inquiry by minimizing technology-based distractions. I will leave a bowl at the entrance to the classroom where you may drop any devices (phone, laptop, watch, etc) at the beginning of class. You can opt-in to this at any point during class, but I ask that you do not retrieve your device(s) until class ends. Email: If you have a course question or concern, please reach out by email. It can take up to 36-48 hours for email responses, so please be patient.
Generative AI: GAI tools are not recommended for success in this class. If you use GAI tools on an assignment, you must describe how you used the tool and include both the prompt and the relevant output. Using these tools without disclosing when and how you used them is a violation of the University’s academic regulations.
Generative AI cuts out process, but thinking is process. Shortcuts degrade quality.
This technology also relies on stolen property and exploited laborers, and exacts significant environmental costs. Building skills as a thinker, reader, and writer equips you for success as a professional and fulfillment as a human.
Your work in this course should be made by you – not someone you pay and not a bot – and work not made by you will be considered an academic integrity violation and evaluated accordingly. Similarly, all lectures, assignments, feedback, and grades will be made by me without AI, nor will any of your intellectual property be fed to tools that train AI. Ideas are social, so let’s make them together. Borrowed from https://against-a-i.com)