On the structure of this web page…

Web-enhanced courses nowadays generally seem to have adopted the Gypsy Rose Lee paradigm of information transfer, gradually revealing material week-by-week despite—well, we hope—the presenter being aware of the projected content from the outset.

As a Boomer recovering-university-professor accustomed to producing complete and semi-contractual syllabi at the beginning of a course so students could figure out whether to enroll (and whether exam dates would conflict with their travel and/or drinking plans…), the sip-by-sip approach is alien to me, and I've reverted to the older form, albeit I cannot provide the altered states of consciousness induced by mimeograph and “ditto“ ink solvents, the Boomer equivalent of THC edibles, which frequently accompanied those documents. Particularly those handouts finalized fifteen minutes prior to the first class. I digress.

I am also assuming that my intended audience is both literate and has an attention span superior to that of a golden retriever (or TikTok): This proposition was contested during the construction of an earlier rendition of this course (despite most of the participants possessing one or more graduate degrees) but, well, that was then.