Hello, I will be using TBL to teach genetics this semester and am setting up my course now. If any of you give a practice RAT on your syllabus and wouldn't mind sharing, I'd be grateful to see a copy of your syllabus and the RAT you give on it. I'm also interested in the extent to which your syllabus is in 'final form' when you give it out the first night. I'm planning to do the grade-weight-setting activity the first night and then update/hand out the final syllabus the following class meeting. (I am teaching at night, in 2 hour 40 minute time blocks.) thanks! Fran Glazer -- Francine S. Glazer, Ph.D. Professor, Biological Sciences Kean University Union NJ 07083 Ph: 908-737-3661 Fx: 908-737-3666 http://www.kean.edu/~fglazer