The Syllabus as Apology

My full Fall 2020 syllabi are done, so I thought I’d post them as an example of one way to talk about format and special circumstances this semester. The key language is below as a screenshot. My thanks for my colleagues for their help in thinking through this stuff, especially to Angela Sorby, who gave me the original “special circumstances” language that I modified below.

ENGLISH 4717/5717: Watchmen

ENGLISH 3000: Utopia in America