Course Outline

Week	Topics/Activities	Text Readings	Internet Readings	Assignments
1 - 28 Aug	Class Intro and Activities/ Topic Discussion*	Online Reading	Introduction to Debate	Where to find Topic Research.
2 - 2 & 4 Sep	Intro to Stock Issues/ CX Format/ Topic Discussion*	Chap 1	How to Research	Watch a Policy Debate
3 - 9 & 11 Sep	Research/Plan/Case/Flowing	Chap 2	How to construct the aff case	Watch Evidence Video
4 - 16 & 18 Sep	Fallacies/Judging/Practice Round	Chap 3	Fallacy List	Turn in Evid Briefs
5 - 23 & 25 Sep	CX in Class (A-G) (C-H)	Chap 10	View a Sample Case	Stock Issues Video
6 - 30 Sep & 2 Oct	CX in Class (B-I) (D-J)	Chap 4	Outline of a debate	Turn in Aff Case
7 - 7 & 9 Oct	CX in Class (E-A) (F-B)	Chap 5	Aff Case Format	Disadvantages
8 - 14 Oct	CX in Class (G-C) (H-D) (2 in 1 Day)	Chap 6	The Counterplan	Choose LD Topic
9 - 21 & 23 Oct	CX in Class (I-E) (J-F) (2 in 1 Day) /Value Debate /LD Demo	Chap 7	Intro to the value premise	How to win at L/D
10 - 28 & 30 Oct	LD in Class (A-B) (C-D) (E-F) (G-H)	Chap 8	Sample LD	Watch L/D Videos
11 - 4 & 6 Nov	LD in Class (I-J) (K-L) (M-N) (O-P) (Q-R) (S-A)	Chap 9	Sample LD Aff Sample LD Neg	Sample Aff LD Sample Neg LD
12 - 11 & 13 Nov	LD in Class (B-C) (D-E) (F-G) (H-I) (J-K) (L-M)	Chap 11	Intro Parli Debate	Turn In Comp Briefs (Outlines)
13 - 18 & 20 Nov	LD in Class (N-O) (P-Q) (R-S) Factual Debate/Parli Demo	Chap 12	Sample Parli	Watch a Parli Debate
14 - 25 Nov	Parli in Class (A-B) (C-D)	Chap 13	List of Parli Topics	Parli Notes (1) & (2)
15 - 2 & 4 Dec	Parli in Class (E-F) (G-H) (I-J) (B-C)	Chap 14		Turn in Outside Flows
16 - 9 & 11 Dec	Parli in Class (D-E) (F-G) (H-I) (J-A)	Chap 15
Finals Day 18 Dec	9 AM -11AM Make Up Debates			All work is "over" due.

Team Debate Topic: Resolved: That the United States federal government should substantially change its drug policy.

LD Topic: Resolved: Limiting economic inequality ought to be a more important social goal than maximizing economic freedom.