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Essential Information

Instructor: Lee C. Archie	Office Hours:
Office: LC M33	MWF 08:30 am-09:00 am
Learning Center Mezzanine	MWF 10:20 am-11:20 am
Telephone: +1 864 388 8383	TR 08:30 am-09:30 am
Email: larchie@philosophy.lander.edu	TR 11:30 am-12:00 noon
Instant Message: philhelp@gmail.com	Other times by Appointment

Supplementary Materials

Is this Course for You?

Important: This online philosophy course is not for everyone. The course assumes that you are able to work independently and to schedule time daily for reading and study. Your Web course puts a substantial burden on you to take charge of your own learning. Before continuing with this course carefully consider if you are the kind of proactive student who can motivate yourself to take charge of your own study. You need to allocate a minimum of nine hours per week for this university course.

Appointments--Office Hours

I look forward to talking to each of you about our philosophy course. You are warmly encouraged to ask about tutorial lectures, readings, class requirements, ideas, or problems. For questions about course content and course procedures use the Philosophy Server's Philosophy Forum. You will need to register for this discussion board according to the instructions given in Section 3.11 Philosophy Forum below.

Personal questions should be sent to larchie@philosophy.lander.edu only. Please do not use Blackboard email or my Lander Webmail address for email contact in this course. (I do not use or check Blackboard email, and I like to keep student correspondence separate from the mass mailings and notices which fill Lander's Webmail.)

My daily schedule is online here:

http://tiny.cc/archie659

Email and Discussion Protocol

If you have a personal question, concern, or problem, email your instructor at the first opportunity. If you have questions about class procedures (class policies, homework problems, class requirements, grading, assignments, or other housekeeping matters), post online to the Discussion Board.

You may use either your Lander email address or your own personal email address. Whichever address you use, you will need to know how to attach a file to email in order to submit tests. All email must have a subject, indicate the class in which you are enrolled, and must be signed by the student. Please learn proper email etiquette as soon as possible. Good brief overviews are given here:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA012054101033.aspx
http://www.emailreplies.com

Important! Be sure to delete all unnecessary messages in your email account used for this course. Most email services, including Lander student email, limit the storage of messages in each account. If an email account becomes full, all email addressed to that account ``bounces'' without notice that messages are being rejected. Often, in such cases, requests for help appear to be unanswered, when the email storage limit has been exceeded for that account.

General Education Core Requirements

Note especially: Although Philosophy 102 Introduction to Philosophy fulfills the General Education Core Curriculum Requirement for Humanities, this course does not fulfill the requirement for Logical and Analytical Thought. If you are seeking to fulfill the Logical and Analytical Thought requirement by registering for a philosophy course, you need to enroll in Philosophy 103: Introduction to Logic.

General Education Competency

Primary: Acquire skill in communicating clearly.

Secondary: Acquire skill in communicating clearly. Evaluation by tests and written assignments.

Lee Archie 2009-08-18