CS203 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Karl Marx, Mass Media, Democracy
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Hours: weeks 1-12 m 4:30-5:30 or by appt special office hours weeks 3-12 t 12:00-1:30. Take home midterm - 25% (due 6pm oct 20) Written assignment - 25% (due 6pm nov 14) Take home final - 30% (due 6pm dec 11) 2% bonus marks for speaking about readings in office hours (week 3-12) Fact: thing that is known to be true or to exist. Opinion: belief based on grounds short of proof, view held as probable, what one thinks about something. Original: (cid:3247)contemplation(cid:3248), (cid:3247)spectacle(cid:3248), (cid:3247)mental conception(cid:3248) old greek (cid:3247)spectator(cid:3248) (oed) Theory is: supposition to account for something; system of rules and principles, A statement that sets out to explain something, event, etc especially distinguished from practice speculative . Monkey typewriter theory: the experiment attempts to prove the theory that an infinite number of monkeys sitting at an infinite number of typewriters would eventually reproduce the works of. How well does it answer: what, how, or why.
