15.269 Class Home

15.269 Literature, Ethics, and Authority

Fall 2010

Instructor: Leigh Hafrey

TA: Tara Thomas

Lecture: MW 2:30-4:00 (E51-376)

Information:

Announcements

Week 3 Updates

Dear Class,

Great discussion today! As Professor Hafrey mentioned, the first set of assignments are coming up. Please be aware of the following new information on the class stellar site:

1) Your teams have been posted in the Materials Section of the site

2) The team co-teaching list has also been posted in the Homework Section. Please work as a team to select your top three co-teaching sessions and e-mail your selections to me by 5 PM on 9/17. My e-mail is taramt@mit.edu. A full description of the co-teaching assignment is also available in the Materials Section.

3) The study questions for next week have also been posted in the Materials Section.

4) The first team paper has been posted and is due to October 4, 2010 and can be found in the Homework Section.

Please let me know if you have any questions and see you next week.

Best,

Tara

Announced on 15 September 2010 10:31 p.m. by Tara Thomas

15.269/LEA Week 2 Study Questions Posted

Dear Class,

The study questions for Classes 2 and 3 have been posted. Apologies on the slight delay.

In the future, these questions will be posted immediately after Wednesday's class every week.

See you Monday!

Announced on 09 September 2010 8:19 p.m. by Tara Thomas

15.269/LEA First Class Assignment!

Dear Participants in “Literature, Ethics, and Authority,”

Welcome to "15.269/Literature, Ethics, and Authority." Our first class meets

Wednesday, September 8, at 2:30, in E51-376.

You have an assignment due the first day:

1) The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes (MIT Coop)

2) "Strategic Stories: How 3M is Rewriting Business Planning" (link on Stellar to Harvard Business On-line), and

3) Cheaper by the Dozen (excerpt on Stellar)

Please come prepared to discuss all three texts.

You will find an introduction to 15.269 on our Stellar home page under “Materials,” as well as a general description of the deliverables for the semester, a detailed explanation of the co-teaching assignment, and the academic standards that apply to this course. A guide to the first class appears under “Materials”/ “Handouts and Study Questions.”

The MIT Coop has stocked our books in numbers sufficient to get the seminar started. Shorter excerpts from various texts are posted on Stellar, and one text for the first day is available through a link to Harvard Business On-line. We offer optional showings of the films at the times indicated in the syllabus; you can also rent them at most video stores.

Together with Tara Thomas, the Teaching Assistant for this fall’s iteration of 15.269, I look forward to meeting those of you whom I don't know from previous courses, and to seeing familiar faces again. Thank you for your interest in 15.269.

Best Wishes,

Leigh Hafrey

Instructor, 15.269/LEA

Announced on 25 August 2010 9:35 a.m. by Tara Thomas