CLST 273-WI / WSGS 297-WI: Classical Tragedy with a focus on Women's Studies and Gender Writing Intensive Fall Semester 2010 Dr. Jacqueline Long

Policies and Assessment

Grades will be based on:

Attendance and other policies

• Active discussion and collaboration are important components of this course. Missing class cheats you of the opportunity to enrich your understanding with the insights of others and to share your insights and questions with us. It is a matter of respect, but far more importantly a matter of self-respect.
  Standards of contribution include:

  Positive: raises questions from study-materials that generate intellectually rewarding discussion	in most meetings	in some meetings	in few meetings
  Positive: guides discussion to employ intellectually rewarding methods	in most meetings	in some meetings	in few meetings
  Positive: supplies pertinent information in discussion	in most meetings	in some meetings	in few meetings
  Positive: makes insightful connections	in most meetings	in some meetings	in few meetings
  Negative: disrupts discussions with distraction or disrespect	never	once or twice, with apology	with some regularity or wantonness

• If you are forced to miss class, please document the legitimacy of the absence, as soon as possible (in advance, if the absence is subject to scheduling).
• Legitimate absences (serious illness or other crisis) should be documented in writing by the appropriate authority. Appointments should be scheduled for times other than when a class for which you are registered meets.
• Absences shall be defined as excessive, as follows:
  • Each unexcused absence beyone a total of three absences, excused or unexcused. That is, excused absences kill your budget of unexcused absences.
  • Repeated chronic lateness (more than 10 minutes) shall be counted as partial absences. Nevertheless, it is better to attend even part of a class, late, than to miss it entirely. Just don't disturb your colleagues.
  • Absences will be totalled over the whole semester.
• Active cooperation on the collaborative presentations is expected of all students. You owe it to one another as a courtesy, at very least, to plan together in advance so that all members can participate fully despite the burdens that everybody's busy schedule inevitably imposes.
• All written assignments are due physically in hand at the start of the class period for which they are assigned. Exceptions can be made only in extraordinary circumstances, for good and documented reasons.
• Exams can be rescheduled only for truly dire and documented reasons. They will involve short-answer and essay questions. Bring pens that don't smear on the days when these exams are scheduled. Write legibly and spell correctly. I know it takes effort, but it is necessary in order to present your knowledge and understanding effectively, and I do appreciate it. Thanks!
• Academic integrity, a.k.a. the life's blood of the intellect:
  • Any practice of academic dishonesty (cheating, plagiarism, obstructing the work of other students, etc.) perpetrated in this course will result in failure of the course. Do not do it.
  • For basic principles and definitions, see the subsection on "Academic Integrity" in the General Academic Standards and Regulations and the College of Arts and Sciences' Academic Integrity Statement. The Department of Classical Studies' Policy on Academic Integrity incorporates these documents. We also recommend you consult the helpful discussion of The Use and Misuse of Source Materials, provided by Loyola's Writing Center.
  • Loyola University requires that all instances of academic dishonesty must be reported to the chairperson of the department involved and to the academic Dean of the student's College.
  • Learning is wholly personal: it only happens if you do it yourself. Your University record should be certifying only what has really happened.

Additional University resources

• Loyola's Office of Academic Advising and Support Services, on the Web and in the Sullivan Center for Student Services on the Lakeshore Campus, offers packages of advice called Academic Success Tools about things like strategies for active learning, time management, tests, reading, and note-taking. The also schedule workshops in these areas and other concerns like financial planning and picking a major. The Sullivan Center also helps provide Services for Students with Disabilities.
• The Tutoring Center (physically in the Sullivan Center; peer-counselors) and the Writing Centers (sponsored by the Department of English: graduate students with expertise in writing pedagogy; main location at Klarchek Information Commons 221, annexes in the Sullivan Center, Suite 206A, and on the Water Tower Campus, 25 East Pearson 605) both offer consultation services.

Revised 21 August 2010 by jlong1@luc.edu
http://www.luc.edu/classicalstudies/