I look forward to seeing/meeting you all soon. In the meantime, remember to:

1. Enroll in the Commons and this site + our “group” via the link you were sent by the Commons team. Email me if you can’t find it or didn’t get it: it would have come to your CUNY email.

2. Introduce yourself via this whimsical prompt on Padlet. It will help us to get to know each other; we’ll also do some kind of ice-breaking activity on Tuesday.

3. You may order books from wherever, but note that the links are on the syllabus document on this site. Be sure to use the ISBNs provided if you shop around (you’ll want the cheap Vintage editions) and note that we’re reading THE UNVANQUISHED first.

I look forward to meeting/seeing you all in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, feel free to acquaint yourself with the syllabus and the schedule of readings. Note that I’ve changed the original book order, so make sure you get the right books and the right editions: ordering info and ISBNs are on the syllabus.

We’ll not do anything very substantive for our first meeting beyond learning a bit about the course as a whole. By way of getting to know each other, at least in the aggregate, here are the results of the little survey I shared via email earlier this month:

survey