A core condition for meeting the course requirements (and the learning objectives of the course) is active engagement in lectures, seminars and assignments. In an advanced course like this, active engagement depend on in-depth reading of the course literature. In order to provide a simple tool for making at least some of the reading more communal and fun, we have divided you all into 2 reading groups. In connection to some lectures, we have assigned different texts to the two reading groups. The idea is that instead of all of you reading both the tasks, you share the reading between them and then brief each other on the texts ahead (preferably) of the lecture. This can be done in pairs or in bigger groups. The course coordinators will however not arrange the actual reading meetings. This is something you as students have to arrange yourself, if you are interested in participating.

The five questions below are intended to help guide your pair/group discussion, but you do not have to use these. They may be more adequate for some texts than for others, and you are of course free to structure your peer discussion the way you want.

In what debate does the text intervene?
What argument(s) does the text make?
On what kind of evidence, data or argumentation is the argument based?
What did you think was interesting, new or thought-provoking about the text?
What did you think was a weak or problematic aspect