Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

I'm honored that you're checking out Philosophy courses and hope you'll decide to take the next step and register! For more about me and how I approach teaching and learning with you, please visit my PCC web page. You can also check my FAQ document which includes general information about my courses and policies. I update it each term, so some of it will be specific to the current academic term but many details will stay the same across terms.

• I use labor-based grading in my courses, which means that the grade you earn is up to you and the amount of work you decide to complete (there's a section on this in the sample syllabus below). While there are requirements and standards for your work, if you meet them then your work receives credit. There are due date requirements, but partial credit is available for assignments submitted past the due date.
  
  
• For more on labor-based grading (sometimes also called contract grading), check out this article.

While our course does have a textbook, you can access it through the PCC Library as an ebook, which means you do not have to purchase a copy. Purchasing a paper copy is up to you! Access through the library is restricted to three users at a time for each of the two ebook copies, so if you rely fully on the ebook there may be times where you need to wait for access.

You can view the Fall '25 syllabus as an example of what to expect for our course. I do typically make some small changes from term to term, so please keep that in mind.

Please reach out with any further questions!