The class is taught in two sections, a day section 5080-001 resp 6080-001, and an evening section 5080-002 resp. 6080-002. The day section meets Mondays 10:45-11:35 am, and the evening section on Thursdays 6-6:50 pm, both in BuC 107. All assignments are identical. Since the main interaction in class takes place by email, attendance at the class meetings is voluntary. The only times you must to come to class is for the third class session (evening class Thursday Jan 24, day class Monday Jan 28, 2008), when Hans gives instructions about writing and internet etiquette, and for the two exams. The exam dates are September 28 and November 16 for the day section, and September 25 and November 20 for the evening section.
In this class you will be responsible for homeworks, submissions to marxism-intro, exams, exam resubmissions, finding partners for the group term paper, writing a term paper, plus you will have certain extra-credit opportunities. Every participant also has to write detailed comments twice on the homeworks of others. Master students enrolling in this class under the 6080 class number should consider themselves co-teachers who make additional contributions enriching the class, which you have to discuss with Hans in his office hour. All rules are described in the detailed syllabus which is included as an Appendix in the class edition of the Annotations (more about those below).
This class does not use Web-CT, therefore a few simple steps are necessary for you to receive the class mailings. Therefore every student enrolled in this class must do three things in order to be able to participate:
There is also an interactive web site for the class at http://marx.econ.utah.edu:5080/econ-5080 but the more important part is your subscription to the class mailing list.
An optional textbook for this class is volume 1 of Marx's Capital, which is also available here as a pdf-file showing German and English side by side, see below, and as html-archives at the Marxists Internet Archive or in the Archive for History of Economic Thought.
Since this course meets the communications and writing requirement, some resources about internet etiquette and writing are assembled at netiquette.htm.
The big zip archive which you have to download contains an electronic version of the Annotations and archives of the class discussions from previous Semesters or Quarters: Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2004, Fall 2003, Fall 2002, Fall 2001, Fall 2000, Spring 1999, Winter 1998, Autumn 1997, Spring 1997, Winter 1997, Autumn 1996, Spring 1996, Autumn 1995, Winter 1995.
A html archive of the current and all previous class discussions is accessible through marx.econ.utah.edu/das-kapital/index.html. The pdf archive of the current discussion is at marx.econ.utah.edu/das-kapital/pdf/screen/2008SP.pdf.
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