User:Geoff Plourde/Social Contracts

APPLIED SOCIAL CONTRACTS FACILITATOR:GEOFFREY D. PLOURDE

Hello and welcome to Applied Social Contracts. This will be a 16 week course on Social Contracts which are considered a key tenet in ethics and philosophy. We will be focusing on the application of Social Contracts. Students in this class will learn through hands on work how social contracts are designed and the problems and pitfalls that come up. All work in this class is hands on. There will be no lectures as such except for a brief overview of the concept. There also are no assignments except the cumulative project. To insulate from outside drama, a large portion of the work will be done on Google Knol where greater control and confidence can be maintained. A copy of the project will be mirrored on this wiki. Please make a note on the talk page of changes, so they can be moved into the Knol version.

There will be absolutely no grading in this class. The only rule is to act like scholars and remember that we will be guests. This can be considered a scholarly project, because the results will be published on Google Knol, and possibly in journals.

The Cumulative Project
Wikiversity provides an excellent example for designing a social contract. Our project is to design a social contract that is relevant to Wikiversity. After we are finished, we will work on developing a paper to submit for publication.