| Participation (15%) | Success for this class is predicated on participation and reading is foundational to your participation. Daily work will involve quizzes, questions, teamwork, discussion, minutes and other activities. I will periodically give individual-oral and whole-class-written quizzes to measure how carefully you are reading; these quizzes will include objective, detail-oriented questions. We will do teamwork activities every week or so, and you will earn team grades for those activities. You will receive periodic discussion grades based on in-class participation. |
| Essays (35%) | You will write two essays this semester (#1=15%; #2=20%). More information will follow |
| Exams (50%) | The Romantic exam will count 13%, the Victorian exams will count 12%, and the comprehensive final(25%) will be weighted towards the Moderns. Exams will include short answer and essay questions. |
Grading Scale: A= 93+, A-=90-92, B+=87-89, B=83-86, B-=80-82, C+=77-79, C=73-76, C-=70-72, D+=67-69, D=63-66, D-=60-62, F=59 or below. (F's on individual assignments are recorded as 50.)
Minutes: Each student will have at least three opportunities to compose “minutes” of class
lecture and discussion for a particular class hour. Minutes must be written
as a collection of full sentences in either outline or paragraph form.
Secretaries should e-mail their minutes to the class list
AS A SINGLE-SPACED
ATTACHMENT. They should include a
header with the secretary's name, the
date of
the class meeting, and the topic of that day's discussion. Secretaries must
distribute electronic minutes for the previous class
by 9AM on the day of the next class
with the Subject Header
221XQ Minutes 00/00/00
(the
date of the class meeting) and a
keyword
from the
day's topic (i.e., Wordsworth, French Revolution, World War I,
Industrialization, etc.).
Each student should bring hard copies to discuss and track changes that we make
in reviewing them. Hard copy minutes will be marked by the instructor and
returned to the secretaries at the next class. Click on the following links
to see samples of good minutes Don
Juan,
Shelley, Wilde.
Make sure to include (type out) the DIRECT QUOTATIONS that we cover in class as part of
your minutes.
Academic Honesty:
In order for an academic community to thrive,
members of that community must be able to trust the honesty and sincerity of
communication between members. The
very integrity of a college is grounded in
academic honesty. One form of academic dishonesty that can undermine this
integrity is plagiarism, intentionally or
unintentionally copying the words or ideas from another source without giving
that source credit. Because of
the serious harm plagiarism causes an academic
environment, I have zero tolerance for it: students who
plagiarize will likely fail the class. Other form of academic honesty (including
but not exclusive
of, cheating, double submission, inappropriate collaboration) may result
in a range of penalties between zero on an assignment or failure of the class). Do not hesitate to consult with me if you have
questions about academic honesty.(For more information, see "Academic
Dishonesty" in the college's catalog and pages 575-80 of Bedford.)