theorywatch

Someone who leaves a syllabus as open and open-ended as the one for his Information Policy course has my undying admiration, though I suspect many students prefer the “syllabus as contract” approach that has become increasingly popular these days. Lesk quotes Santayana somewhere in this syllabus as saying that it doesn’t matter what college students read as long as they all read the same thing. (Does that mean that Santayana would approve of TextBook Torrents? Hmm, surely not!) Does that mean he also intended his dictum to apply to grad students? Hmm, surely not….