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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 will work together with your classmates in making social annotations of the readings on Perusall.

Beyond that, I strongly 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.