Schedule

The table below shows the weekly schedule of lessons and assessments.

WK	TOPIC	EXERCISES, QUIZZES, AND TESTS	DUE
1 Jan 9	Introduction
DEAD WHITE GUYS THINKING ABOUT REALITY
2 Jan 16	Plato’s Allegory of the Cave	Online discussion on Plato (5%)	Mon Jan 20 in Blackboard
3 Jan 23	Clifford, Ethics of Belief	In-class group exercise (or online individual if you can't make it to class) (5%)	Jan 23 (or 26 in Blackboard)
CONSUMING MEDIA
4 Jan 30	The Society of the Spectacle	TBA (5%)
5 Feb 6	[NO CLASS]	Online Mini test (15%)	Feb 10
6 Feb 13	Amusing ourselves to death	TBA (5%)
CONSUMED BY FEAR
7 Feb 20	Theories of Anxiety	TBA (5%)
8 Feb 27	Discussion and review	Midterm test (15%)	Feb 27
READING WEEK