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Requirements: Your main project will be your final paper, but there will some other work required along the way. (1) You will write a short essay (3-4 pp.) posing an interpretive problem regarding one of the texts by Leibniz we will read in the first part of the course. (2) You will write a critical response (of 5-6 pp.) to one of the secondary sources we will read in the second part, and you will lead our discussion of that reading. (3) As part of your development of the final paper, you will submit a topic proposal and later a prospectus that will be the basis for class discussion in the final part of the course. (4) The final version of your main paper (10-12 pp.) will then be due during exam week. (5) In addition to this writing and leading the associated discussions, I will expect regular, prepared, and active participation in discussion throughout the course. My evaluation of your work in these areas will be weighted as follows in your final grade: 12% for the short essay, 18% for the critical response, 12% for the topic and prospectus for the final paper, 36% for the final draft of that paper, and 22% for class participation.