(03-18-2018, 09:47 PM)Ideas Wrote:(03-18-2018, 09:30 PM)FilMor Wrote: If you are going to take this course expect to read Atlas Shrugged (all 1,200 pages since it is a requirement) and two other of Rand's works. The quizzes are built around the text.
This is not going to be something that's finished in a week IMO unless you have already studied Rand's philosophy in the past, other wise expect it to last a bit more since you're supposed to digest I'm guessing over 2,000 pages of Objectivism philosophy or close to it.
That's a lot, but are they closed-book quizzes?
How many quiz questions?
Papers? Exams?
Open book with what it looks to be a few short papers here and there and far in between. But the questions seem to have been created by the professor so going cold on them could cause some stress if you are planning to search for the answers on Google. I went cold on the first quiz and while searching for answers I decided that Objectivism is actually an interesting philosophy, so I got the required books on my Kindle and will go ahead and read them. There's one negative though, Rand's style of writing is deep, intellectual and hard. This is going to take some willpower to finish.
Here's the complete Syllabus.