PHIL 361/599 Philosophy of Art and Beauty

Spring 1998 - California State University, Long Beach


Lecture Notes: Week Ten: Final Project

SPRING BREAK: Once your short paper is submitted March 30, you won't have to do anything for this course until after spring break. Check here on Monday, April 13 for lecture notes to start our third and final unit. Let me suggest, though, that you take a look at the final project assignment between now and April 13 so you can start thinking about that. It will involve some Web-searching, so you might want to have fun with that over break.

FINAL PROJECT: I have just posted detailed information on your final project for the course:

http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/361/361_a5.html

You can also get to it by clicking "assignments" on the class page and scrolling down to "Final Project."

In a "traditional" course, you would typically take a final exam and perhaps submit a final term paper. This Final Project replaces such requirements and should take about the same amount of time you would spend on those.

SCHEDULING CHANGES: I have moved back a couple of deadlines, so you will have a bit more breathing space at the end of the semester. Of course, you can still turn these in early if you wish! You'll see the new dates on updated pages for "course requirements and grading" and "course syllabus." I've pushed these back as far as I can to the end of the semester. Specifically:

WEB TRAINING: The final project includes constructing a Web page. Now don't panic! I realize that almost none of you know how to do this, so we're going to make sure you all have ways to learn this between now and May 18. Believe me - authoring and posting a basic Web page is incredibly easy. The WWW has caught on like wildfire since 1995, in part because people like looking at all the multi-media stuff from around the world - but that's only part of the story. The other part is that people have discovered how incredibly easy it is to post a Web page for their family, their school, their club, their business, etc., etc. The supply has exploded, not just the demand, and that's because web-authoring is so simple. So here are a variety of ways that you too can learn how to author a Web page by the end of the semester:

If you are using Netscape 3.0, the Netscsape site has something called "Netscape gold" that includes a web-authoring program very similar to Composer. Go to the Netscape site and you can download that for free. But only use Netscape 3.0 if you have 16 MB RAM or less or if you are using Windows 3.1, not Windows 95.

Have a great spring break everybody! My goal is to have all of your Short Papers graded before April 13. With luck, I'll have them done well before that. (I'll also be grading 98 essay mid-terms from my Introduction to Ethics course between now and April 13, so I won't have yours finished right away!)


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