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

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

Partiipating in each small group session in the assigned schedule is worth 2.5 points. Points obtained by attending small group sessions are kept for the second and the ahead-of-schedule opportunity.

For the second and the ahead-of-schedule opportunity, each student can submit, singly or in a group, three written essays, each worth 30 points.

Students can get the "Honors" grade in any opportunity, but preferently 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.