Syllabus

Reading Schedule

Handouts & Assignments

Study Questions

Paper Topics

Internet Links

Here is a brief synopsis of the highlights from the syllabus, but don't take this as a substitute for the entire document, which you will have downloaded. Follow the link to the left for the schedule of readings and assignments.

Instructor Information
Prof. Andrew P. Mills
Office: Towers 323
Office Phone: 823-1368
Winter Quarter Office Hours: M,W,F 10-11 and by appointment.  I'm in my office almost every day, and I love to have visitors, so if you want to drop by, feel free to do so!!
E-mail: amills@otterbein.edu

Texts
There are six textbooks for this course and one coursepacket.  The books are:

Jack London, The Sea Wolf  Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1981  ISBN 0553212257

Meyer Levin, Compulsion  Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1996  ISBN 0-786703199

Derk Pereboom (ed), Free Will  Hackett Publishing Co.  1997  ISBN 0872203727

Walter Kaufman (ed. & trans.) The Portable Nietzsche Penguin USA 1976  ISBN 0140150625

Hal Higdon, Leopold & Loeb and the Crime of the Century University of Illinois Press 1999 ISBN 0252068297

Robert M Baird & Stuart E. Rosenbaum (editors) Punishment and the Death Penalty: The Current Debate  Prometheus Books 1995 ISBN  0879759461

Course Requirements
This is a text-based course, and it is imperative that you do the assigned reading (preferably twice) before coming to class each day.  If you don't do the reading, you will not learn the material, and you will find the lectures much more difficult to follow.  I have provided a number of study questions to help you focus your reading on the important themes.  If I see that students are not doing the reading, I may start having pop reading quizzes.

The second imperative is that you have an email account, and regular, reliable access to the internet.  E-mail is the best and quickest way I know of to communicate with all of you, and for you all to communicate with each other.  I will make regular updates to this website, and you should get in the habit of checking it daily.  If you do not have an email account, visit the Information Technology department, and get set up.  It is easy to do, and it is free. 

Here's a breakdown of the graded work for the course.  Consult the full version of the syllabus for a complete description of these portions of the course grade.
 

There is much more important information on the complete syllabus.  Please download it now, if you haven't already done so!!!!