What is the Social Contract?
How do Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau view the Social Contract differently?
What is Maslow's hierarchy of ideas?
What is Aristotle's vision of justice?
What is John Rawls' theory of justice and his "veil of ignorance"?
What is John Stuart Mills' "free marketplace of ideas?
What is utilitarianism?
What is Kant's categorical imperative?
What is value debate? What is policy debate?
What are equality, liberty/freedom, justice, human rights, individualism, community/responsibility, ethics, and relativism/sophistry?
What is a resolution?
What is the difference between a value and a value criterion?
Why are definitions and observations important?
How can this resolution best be defined and interpreted?
What are the major affirmative and negative contentions/arguments in terms of the current resolution? What are the major rebuttals to those arguments? How can questions best be framed for cross-examination with respect to the current resolution?

Debate concepts and techniques
Philosophical concepts and techniques
Current events
Resolutional analysis
Rebuttals
Cross-examination
Case-writing (essay writing)

Resolutional analysis
Development and refinement of rebuttals and cross-examination questions
Case-writing (essay writing) and case (essay)revision
Practice mock debates and note-taking ("flowing") of debate tournament rounds
Research of current debate topics, extemporaneous speaking (current events) topics,
and Model Congress bills and resolutions
Discuss current events; practice delivery of extemporaneous speaking speech event
Practice in and discussion of winning techniques for Extemporaneous Speaking, Model Congress, and Tournament Debate

Case-writing (formal essay) for affirmative, development, and revision
Case-writing (formal essay) for negative, development, and revision
Development and refinement of cross-examination questions and rebuttals
In-class mock debates, extemporaneous speaking speeches, and Model Congress practices
Class participation

class notes, internet and library research, current events periodicals

How can this resolution best be defined and interpreted?
What are the major affirmative and negative contentions/arguments in terms of the current resolution? What are the major rebuttals to those arguments? How can questions best be framed for cross-examination with respect to the current resolution?

Debate concepts and techniques
Philosophical concepts and techniques
Current events
Resolutional analysis
Rebuttals
Cross-examination
Case-writing (essay writing)

Resolutional analysis
Development and refinement of rebuttals and cross-examination questions
Case-writing (essay writing) and case (essay)revision
Practice mock debates and note-taking ("flowing") of debate tournament rounds
Research of current debate topics, extemporaneous speaking (current events) topics,
and Model Congress bills and resolutions
Discuss current events; practice delivery of extemporaneous speaking speech event
Practice in and discussion of winning techniques for Extemporaneous Speaking, Model Congress, and Tournament Debate

Case-writing (formal essay) for affirmative, development, and revision
Case-writing (formal essay) for negative, development, and revision
Development and refinement of cross-examination questions and rebuttals
In-class mock debates, extemporaneous speaking speeches, and Model Congress practices
Class participation

class notes, internet and library research, current events periodicals

How can this resolution best be defined and interpreted?
What are the major affirmative and negative contentions/arguments in terms of the current resolution? What are the major rebuttals to those arguments? How can questions best be framed for cross-examination with respect to the current resolution?

Debate concepts and techniques
Philosophical concepts and techniques
Current events
Resolutional analysis
Rebuttals
Cross-examination
Case-writing (essay writing)

Resolutional analysis
Development and refinement of rebuttals and cross-examination questions
Case-writing (essay writing) and case (essay)revision
Practice mock debates and note-taking ("flowing") of debate tournament rounds
Research of current debate topics, extemporaneous speaking (current events) topics,
and Model Congress bills and resolutions
Discuss current events; practice delivery of extemporaneous speaking speech event
Practice in and discussion of winning techniques for Extemporaneous Speaking, Model Congress, and Tournament Debate

Case-writing (formal essay) for affirmative, development, and revision
Case-writing (formal essay) for negative, development, and revision
Development and refinement of cross-examination questions and rebuttals
In-class mock debates, extemporaneous speaking speeches, and Model Congress practices
Class participation

class notes, internet and library research, current events periodicals