Hi Class,

Thanks for the nice comments at the end of class.

 

**Please fill out the SET form for my class (SET = student evaluation of teaching). Each student has been sent an email explaining how to fill it out. This helps the college and me.

 

 

December 3

– Finish Life of Pi and Q/A

– After class I will post Quiz 3 with extra credit—both will due next Thursday by midnight.

 

December 10

– No Class (Uniform Finals)

– I will have office hours both Monday and Thursday (see sidebar for times, links)

– Due: Quiz 3 with extra credit (by midnight)

– I will post the Final Exam by 5pm (Similar to Quiz 2 with a movie still and short answer questions—my goal is to reinforce our key concepts, not cause pain)

 

December 17

– No Class

– I will have office hours both Monday and Thursday

– Deadline for both final exam and final essay is midnight 12/17.

IMPORTANT: FINAL ESSAY WILL BE POSTED TO OPENLAB. BUT THE FINAL EXAM MUST BE EMAILED TO ME.

 

Quiz 3 with extra credit:

DIRECTIONS: Please copy and paste the quiz question and extra credit prompt into the body of an email. Type your answer in the email and then send to me. Don’t post to OpenLab. [Before emailing them to me, make sure and put them through a spell/grammar checker]

Quiz 3 (30 points):

After the Tsimtsum sinks, Pi struggles for survival against seemingly impossible odds. Pi is stranded on a small lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific for 227 days, with an adult Bengal tiger for company. Therefore, his ordeal involves not just avoiding starvation but also protecting himself from the sun, sharks, constant wetness, dehydration, storms, and of course, from Richard Parker. Pi is soon forced to give up his lifelong pacifism and vegetarianism as he has to kill and eat fish and turtles—even a bird (masked booby). Provide three brief examples of how Pi follows (perhaps temporarily) each of the three normative ethics during his ordeal. What I’m asking students to do is to briefly describe a scene where Pi follows a strict set of rules (deontology), where Pi decides to act based on the type of person he wants to be (virtue ethics), and where Pi focusses on the ends, not the means. Please refer to the handout on Five Types of Ethics. (Answer length: approximately 100-150 words; please proofread and spell/grammar check your answer)

Extra Credit Question (10 points):

What are the most meaningful concepts or ideas that you have learned this semester?  (Approximately 100 words; please proofread and spell/grammar check your answer)

DUE DECEMBER 10 AT MIDNIGHT (or anytime before that)

 

 

Email any questions.

 

Best wishes,

Prof. Scanlan