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Our Mid-term Exam is coming up next Tuesday, 3/23!!

The test will be 75 minutes long and will be administered on Blackboard. You should receive an announcement to your email at 5:00pm, when it becomes available. You can also find it under “Content” in Blackboard after 5:00pm. 

The exam is open book and open notes. I recommend that you study carefully for it by filling out the study sheet ahead of time. Most of the questions require understanding concepts, not simply repeating answers from the study sheet. I will be available in our regular Zoom forum or on email from 6pm on, if you need to contact me for some reason.

You can start it any time between 5pm and 7:20pm. However, please try to start by 6pm at the latest, so that you can take the full 75 minutes and still be on time to our 7:20pm session. I will take attendance for our class session on Zoom at 7:20pm sharp!

Do NOT plagiarize from the internet. Utilizing answers from class materials and lectures is acceptable. Plagiarism from the internet is grounds for a zero score on the test.

If you need a special exception you need to contact me. If for some reason you don’t contact me and also don’t take it at the appointed time, you will need a documented excuse (either medical or related to bereavement) for permission to take it at another time.

Don’t forget to download the review sheet and fill it out before the test! And let me know if you have any questions.

Dr. M

Dear Class, 

The midterm exam study sheet has now been posted. You can find it under “Exam study sheets,” or here.

We will go over this study sheet in the second half of class next Tuesday. Please fill it out ahead of class so that we can identify any questions that you are having trouble with. 

See you then. 

Best, 

Dr. M

 

Dear class, 

Consider signing up for the sessions during PLAN week, so that you can plan for success at City Tech. 

Best, 

Dr. M

Plan Week Postcard SP21

Dear Students, 

Greetings from virtual space! I’m Professor MacDougall, your professor for Philosophy of Law (PHIL3211). I hate that we have to meet like this—do you? Perhaps we can all agree that it is different and interesting and convenient. I’d still much rather be in a real classroom with real faces. 

There are three things that I want you to know before our first day of class. 

1. This will be a (mostly) synchronous class. That means you will need to plan on being logged in to Zoom between 6-8:30pm on class days. The class will not be recorded for several reasons, including CUNY policy. There may be some class periods where we have a pre-recorded lecture, or some other activity, that makes the period essentially asynchronous. I will let you know ahead of time about these. Our first class will take place Tuesday, February 2, at 6pm. I will call roll during the class. The Zoom invitation can be found in Blackboard. 

2. Most of our written interactions, and all class updates and materials, are available on our OpenLab site. Please join our OpenLab section as soon as possible. You will be required to join in order to participate in online discussions. You can also see the schedule and assignments there.

3. This class is an Open Educational Resource (OER) course. That means there is no textbook, and all readings are freely available online. This saves you money and means you can store all our readings on your hard drive, indefinitely! You can find links to class readings on the OpenLab Schedule page.

Let me know if you have any questions. I’m looking forward to meeting you.

Dr. MacDougall