Schedule

Course Information

Instructor	Professor David Emmanuel Gray
Contact	CMUQ 1039, degray@cmu.edu, @ProfessorDEG
Office hours	Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday: 9:30am–11:30am
Class time	Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday: 8:30am–9:20am
Class location	CMUQ 1213
Syllabus	PDF
Twitter	#BSE16

Course Assistant

Tehseen Niaz

tniaz@andrew.cmu.edu, @Tehseen_Niaz

Course Grader

Kendra Chilson

kchilson@andrew.cmu.edu

Grading

Participation (Twitter assignment)	10%
Class Summaries (verbal rubric & written rubric) (written templates: MS Word & Pages)	10%
Debate Preparation Outlines (rubric) (templates: MS Word & Pages) In-Class Debates (rubric)	30%
Debate Position Papers (rubric) (templates: MS Word & Pages)	50%

Estimate your overall course grade with this spreadsheet (Excel).

Important Dates

August		September		October		November		December
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31		Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30		Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa             1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31		Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30		Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Preparation Outline Due    Position Paper Due    Eid Al-Adha Break