Welcome to the course! Consider this page to be a “pre-syllabus”—a very preliminary guide to the course, with the information that you need to have right now (including information about how to get much more information).
The full syllabus is available on the web site for the course, at
(You can get to this site by typing in ‘web.ku.edu/~utile’—at which point you’ll be at my personal web site—and then using the links to get to the above site.) I strongly encourage you to visit this site at your earliest convenience, and also to bookmark it and to check it regularly. I tend to make small changes to my courses’ syllabi (reading assignments, etc.) as courses progress, so you should regularly check the syllabus online rather than printing a hard copy at the beginning and then relying on it throughout the semester. Also, as the course progresses, I’ll be posting other course documents, such as class handouts, on this site.
Along with visiting the course web site, the other thing you should do right away is to buy the book for the course (if you have not already done so). It is
You can buy it on campus (I ordered it as a textbook), or elsewhere, including online. Be sure to get it right away, since we’ll get started with it right at the beginning of the semester. You may find it sold bundled with something else, such as a CD or a little booklet or something like that. You won’t need any of that other stuff; you will just need the book itself. You can buy it used if you want—just be sure that you get the 8th edition.