HUM 3306: History of Ideas--The Age of Enlightenment to the Age of Anxiety
Summer 2012

Instructions for Discussion Forum: Due June 20th Wednesday by Midnight

PLEASE NOTE: AS THIS ASSIGNMENT IS TURNED IN NEAR THE END OF THE SEMESTER, YOU LIKELY WILL GET ONLY A SCORE FOR ASSESSMENT & PERHAPS A BRIEF COMMENT BUBBLE AT THE TOP OF YOUR COMPILATION

--Cut from Blackboard your substantial Forum contributions and paste them into a Word file, grouped by author/text in the sequence of the syllabus (i.e. Scientific Revolution, Locke, Equiano … Freud) and upload the file with the title “Forum” to the Turnitin assignment dropbox within Blackboard.

--For your convenience, although not mandatory, I’ve provided a grid form below which you may use.  Note the last box (Miscellaneous) if a posting doesn’t fit elsewhere.

--Substantial = a posting that demonstrates you were responding to our authors and their texts, or reflecting on others’ responses to our authors and their texts. Minor chit-chat should be weeded out but that doesn't mean you need to cut a "sidebar" conversation about morality or whatever.

--It is ok to leave your words that reflect the Forum context (e.g., “I agree with you, Hilary, Marx is an author that got history wrong….”), and indeed such shows that you’ve been engaged with your classmates as the semester has proceeded.  But don’t include the actual posting from a classmate to which you are responding.

--You should edit/revise for clarity, wordiness/repetition, and grammar/spelling.  Read again the last sentence, as this assignment is part of the Gordon Rule writing requirement.  In most cases, cutting-and-pasting and editing should take about two hours or so.

--Do NOT try to add a bunch of stuff artificially (on Locke and Darwin, for instance) at the last minute.  I have been reading the postings on a regular basis, and will have a clear sense of who has arrived, as it were, to the party after the party is over.  I also double-check via Blackboard the “time-stamp” of the postings.  Such additions will be more or less ignored.

--As said in earlier emails to all: the expectation is that you have posted on all our main authors/texts (the one’s that we actually had books for), but postings on the earlier or end-of-semester e-texts (Nietzche/Fanon) can compensate a bit for a missed author, and add a pleasant spice to the meal of your collective postings.

Unit/readings	Your Postings
Protestant Reformation, Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment: LOCKE mainly
Enlightenment: EQUIANO
Romanticism: FRANKEN-STEIN & poetry
DARWIN
MARX
FREUD
Modernism & Miscellaneous that doesn’t fit above