Welcome to my
Summer 2008 Sessions A & B
&
Fall 2008
Course Web Page
1) Summer 2008 Session A:
Phil 1:
Introduction to Philosophy #1184 (online)
Phil 1:
introduction to Philosophy #1199 (online)
2) Summer 2008 Session B:
Phil 1:
Introduction to Philosophy #1376 (online)
Phil 1:
Introduction to Philosophy #1377 (online)
3) Fall 2008:
Phil 1:
Introduction to Philosophy (online)
Phil
19: Contemporary Problems in Bioethics
Phil
20: Ethics (online)
The “online” courses are COMPLETELY
online. There are NO on-campus
meetings. ALL exams will be taken
online. Phil 19 is NOT an online course.
We will employ Moodle as our coursetool
for all the online courses. Moodle is an
online teaching environment which you will need to familiarize yourself with
immediately if you choose to enroll in one of these courses.
You need to read the following before deciding
to take either course:
Be Realistic about Yourself Regarding the online courses
- If you have a
tendency to procrastinate, do NOT take one of the online courses because
the chances are that you will keep putting things off until you are too
far behind.
- If you are not
already sufficiently comfortable working with computers, do NOT take this
online course because there is too great a risk that you will get bogged
down just in the mechanics.
- If you are not
strongly motivated and able to see things through on your own, definitely
do NOT take this online course.
Be
Realistic about the online Courses
- If your
high-school or college GPA is low, it's quite likely that you should work
on other subjects (English, for instance) to bring yourself up to the
level you need to be at for a college course of this type.
- If you are
uncomfortable with individuals who express beliefs and values sometimes
quite different from your own, you should probably not take this
particular course since one requirement is that your comments are shared
with everyone else in the course.
STUDENT REQUIREMENTS for online courses:
- Purchase the required text as designated by the professor in the course
syllabus during the first week
of Class.
- Have immediate access to an IBM compatible Personal Computer. The
Apple/Mac Computer and related accessories seem be compatible with these
courses.
- Have at leas Microsoft Word 1998.
View at http://www.microsoft.com/office/ The latest software Office suite is
available in the Student Store.
- Have a reliable [ISP] Internet Service Provider [AOL, Earth link,
PacBell, Verizon, GTE, etc.].
- Have the latest versions of either Netscape or Microsoft Explorer
Internet Browsers.
- Have an email account either through your ISP or sign up for one on
the Internet. [Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.]
If these restrictions are acceptable to you, please
[1] Read the course syllabus carefully
(you will find the link to it below).
[2] If you are still interested,
register for the course with
[3] Email me letting me know that you
have registered and I will send you account information.
[4] Follow the “Getting Started”
instructions (you will find the link below).
Add
Instructions
In case my Summer 2008 Sessions A & B courses get filled up, I
will post add instructions about a week before the courses start. I will add students only during the first
week of class.
I will post add instructions for the Fall 2008 courses the last
week of August.
Further
Information
For further information on the courses and their requirements,
click on the particular course syllabus that you are interested.
1) Course
syllabus Summer 2008 Session A (1184 or 1199 courses)
2) Course
syllabus Summer 2008 Session B (1376 or 1377 courses)
3) Course syllabus
Fall 2008 Phil 1 (0571)
4) Course
syllabus Fall 2008 Phil 19 (3343) (Provisional-subject to change)
5) Course
syllabus Fall 2008 Phil 20 (0585)
Getting
Started with Online Courses (For Enrolled Students)
Important
Notice:
If you are registered for Phil 1 (1184, 1199, 1376, or 1377)
courses and would like to get started, please click on the relevant “Getting
Started” link, below (I will not be assigning account information for any
course until the week before these courses start): Links to the GETTING STARTED
files will be posted about a week before the courses start.
If you are registered for any of the above courses (except Phil
19), make sure to email me the week before the course starts so that I may give
you the information you need to get started.
If you miss the first two assignments of any of the above online
courses, you will most likely be dropped from the course.
If, after carefully
reading the above, you have any questions, email me, Dr. Miguel Endara, at endarama@piercecollege.edu