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This course challenges each of us to share in the difficult process of understanding and evaluating important works of philosophy. While this course is entirely online, ongoing discussion and deliberation with your classmates is very important in understanding and retaining course material.
To facilitate this, you have two options for class participation:
- Social annotations of the readings on Perusall, and/or
- General discussion posts on Twitter.
Perusal and Twitter provide simple ways to engage with your classmates about the course material. You can focus on only one of these, or do a bit of both. I just want you to engage in whichever form of participation you find most comfortable.
Beyond that, I encourage you to form a study group with some of your classmates using your UB Zoom account. A study group may prove extremely helpful for having study sessions, holding each other accountable for keeping up with the course material (and not putting things off until the last minute), coordinating your discussions on Perusall and Twitter, supporting each other when struggling with course material, and checking in on the health and wellbeing of each other.