As mentioned in my e-mail to the class, your only formal responsibility before the first week of classes is to completed the short questionnaire that I have now uploaded here are a word document:
Download 2015 1st Class Survey
As you will see from this document, you may want to (but need not) read pp. 1-17 in the text for some background on some of the terms used in the first question. And the second question seeks feedback the topics listed in this class introduction post.
In addition, the last question asks what sentence you would impose on former Connecticut Governor John Rowland at his upcoming federal sentencing. Background on this white-collar defendant and his crime can be found in these recent articles from the Hartford Courant:
Sentencing Class @ OSU Moritz College of Law 