general issues: 

evaluation:

1. examinations: 50% (midterm: 20%, final: 30%)

2. mini-projects: 20%

3. attendance / participation / weblog: 30%

readings & summaries: every week there will be a reading assignment. and students have to post a ~500 word summary of the readings to your blog.(*every class week saturday 24:00). at every class every students should contribute at least a comment, question or observation in the course of the class discussion.

mini-project: for this course you will do one or two projects. (tba: one is simple, the other is little complicating)

weblogs & mailing list : you will be required to create a weblog, and subscribe to a class mailing list.

policy: 

attendance is manditory. four or more absences will result in no grade.  

project and weblog must be completed on time.  late submission of outlines and papers will receive a mark-down of 10% per day.