TUTORIAL QUESTIONS

The questions for each week's tutorial are designed to help you assimilate the material covered in the lectures of the preceding week.  As a result, for example, we will deal in week 2 with the questions based on the lectures delivered in week 1, etc.  Ideally,

• You should attempt to answer on your own all the questions listed as they are designed to help you to assimilate the material covered.  If you can answer the questions, chances are that you have comprehended the material;

• Sometimes questions will be assigned to particular individuals, while at other times persons may be chosen at random to answer questions.  It is accordingly always in your interest to come to class well prepared;

• Our aim is not to discuss all the questions listed in a given tutorial.  

  • Sometimes we may answer all; 

  • at other times, we may answer selected questions; 

  • at other times, tutorial questions will serve as a springboard for general discussion; 

  • at yet other times, we will hold debates or engage in other forms of class room activity designed to help you assimilate the material in question.  

• All in all, however, it is very much in your interest to answer as many as possible, if not all, the questions on your own and prior to the tutorial.

• Regular attendance at the tutorial is mandatory--you should note that if you miss without a good excuse a presentation which has been assigned to you, you will receive no marks for the presentation; it is in your interest, accordingly, to inform us of any circumstances which might prevent your participation.

• Your final mark for tutorial participation / presentations will be based on the average derived from the marks accumulated for each presentation and / or participation.

Accordingly, please prepare the following questions ahead of each week's tutorial.  (Please read the preparation advice below carefully.)

MODULE ONE: PREMODERN PERIOD

• Week 1

• Week 2

• Week 3

• Week 4

MODULE TWO: EARLY MODERN PERIOD

• Week 5

• Week 6

• Week 7

• Week 8

MODULE THREE: MODERN PERIOD

• Week 9

• Week 10

• Week 11

• Week 12

PREPARATION ADVICE

• Your ability to participate generally in tutorial discussions hinges on your familiarity with the material--it is, hence, in your interest to be as up to date as possible with the readings;

• You should prepare carefully, perhaps by writing your answers, the question(s) assigned to you with a view to presenting a brief but coherent response in class;

• Your answer should be concise: it should take no more than a minute or two at most;

• Your answer should demonstrate that you have engaged not only with my handouts (which you should not merely regurgitate) but, more importantly, with the primary / required readings listed--quotations cited from these sources would form a very useful part of your answer;

• In your answer, you should attempt to make use as much as possible of the new terminology to which you have been exposed--it is in this way that you will gradually come to understand and get accustomed to using some of these new concepts.