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"Democracy, like "liberty" or "science" or "progress" is a word with which we are all so familiar that we rarely take the trouble to ask what we mean by it." Carl Becker, Modern Democracy

Office:

Honors Suite (southern end of Maple Hall)

Phone:

(254)-3223

Hours: Every day 10:00-11:00, and by appointment. (In point of fact I will be in the office many more hours a day than indicated by the bare-bones times listed. Call before you come to see if I am in or to make an appointment.)

Required reading will come from the following:

Ideals and Ideologies, ed by Terrence Ball and Richard Dagger

Shout Across Time: The Joy of History, Joshua B. Stein

The Founders and the Classics, Carl J. Richard

The Historians of Ancient Rome, ed by Ronald Mellor

Supplemental readings (to be distributed)

Grades will be based on :

1-2) Two (2) hour exams administered on Sept 27 and October 22 (each worth 20% of your grade)

3) A term paper due either November 22 or November 29 (depending on whether you want to ruin your Thanksgiving vacation or mine) (20%)

4) An electronic "commonplace book" due serially on September 29, October 29 (optional), December 3 (20%). Only the December 3 submission will be graded; the others will be returned with comments.

5) A final exam (20%)

(A note on the commonplace book: Daily, as we work our way through the semester's readings and discussions, you will be copying what you think are significant quotations on democracy as you run across them in the various text assignments and commenting on why you think them worthy of note. Details to follow.)

EXPECTATIONS:

Students and instructor will arrive on time, neatly dressed, in a cheerful mood, anxious to learn, desirous of participating in ongoing intellectual discussion as part of a community of scholars. All assigned reading will be read by the day assigned; if it has not been, students will not come to class (on the other hand they need not be on time, neat, cheerful etc). Once in class students and instructor will conduct themselves according to the standards of civilized behavior. We are engaged in a serious intellectual pursuit. You are expected to submit all work on time. Make-up examinations, late papers, grades of Incomplete will be allowed (if at all) only after much begging and pleading. If an Incomplete is assigned at the end of the semester, it will be made up in one month's time, or not at all.