Each student can submit, singly or in a group, three essays on topics assigned by the teacher for online discussion in Moodle and present them orally for discussion. In the essays, students must defend ideas that are compatible with the scientific evidence as presented in the lectures and the summaries of them that the teacher will upload to Moodle. Alternatively, students can argue why they disagree with the lectures and their summaries. Each essay is worth up to 30 points.

Students who do not submit any essay will get a "No show" grade. 

Students get 2 points by participating in each small group session in the assigned schedule or instead by presenting an essay like those described in the first paragraph.

For the second and the ahead-of-schedule opportunity, each student can submit, singly or in a group, three essays, each worth 30 points. The points obtained in the first opportunity are not conserved for the second and the ahead-of-schedule opportunity.

Students can get the "Honors" grade in any opportunity, but preferentially on the first. 

Part-time and attendance-exempt students can choose whether to be graded in the same way as regular students or only with three essays as above and written debates about them in Moodle.