To facilitate grading and return of papers for this course at the end of the semester, submit your final papers on December 3rd as e-mail attachments. Use either MS Word, WordPerfect, or MS Works, or save your file as .rtf and indicate in the body of the e-mail the type of file you are sending.  If you do this, I'll be able to make comments on the papers and return them to you by e-mail.  If you don't have an e-mail account (and in fact all of you do - pegasus - even though you may not use it), then use hotmail or Netscape mail or some other free service through which you can send and receive e-mail.  If you don't know how to upload and send documents, go to one of the computer labs and somebody there will be able to help you with it.  That's part of the reason they are there.  If you simply cannot submit your paper by e-mail, then of course you can submit it in the traditional way.  The due date is December 3rd in any case.

    Your final exam is a take-home final.  It will be distributed in class on December 3rd or uploaded on the web-based syllabus.  You can and should submit the final exam in the same way using the same file format.  Although the official final exam date for this course is December 5th, you have until December 7th to complete and submit the take-home final.  There will be two or three questions required on the final and you will choose those questions from among four to seven options.  Generally speaking, a typed, double-spaced take-home exam question will be 3-4 pages in length.  A take-home exam is a bit different from an in-class final, of course, so you need to take care with grammar, spelling and punctuation and make sure that your argument/position is clearly stated and justified.  To put it bluntly, no bull.  Justify your answers, use the texts where appropriate, and make what you say count.

    If you submit your final exam and paper in the traditional way, you probably won't be able to get them back until January when the spring term starts.  (Note:  If you are taking Ethical Theory or American Philosophy in the spring, you will most likely find that the course content and materials will all be presented on-line and the course will be, as much as possible and practical (with the exception of exams), paperless.)