There will be four tests,
including the final exam which will be non-comprehensive. Each test will count 20% of the
final grade. The remaining 20% will come from the completion of some exercises in the Bell
book, and a written evaluation of a video ( to be rented at Blockbuster or your
favorite video store).
Students are to select one exercise per chapter from the Bell Study Guide (through chapter 7) and
answer four questions that pertain to a given exercise. These exercises should be
submitted when you take an test covering the corresponding chapters in the textbook. For
example, for the first test, please submit the exercises for chapter 1 and 2 (see Bell
). After students complete exercises for chapters 1 through 7, they are to select one
exercise from the remaining chapters, 8 through ten.
Thomas Bell (from his faculty guide) notes that several commercial videos
illustrate important concepts discussed in the course videos and the textual readings. A
list of videos will be posted at a later time in the Announcements
section of this web. Students are expected to visit this web
site for course updates.