LATN 341: Vergil, Aeneid Spring Semester 2009 Tuesday - Thursday, 8:30am-9:45am Crown Center 572 Dr. Jacqueline Long

Policies and Assessment

Grades will be based on:

Respect and other policies

• The most meaningful education is less about answers to any particular set of problems than acquiring and applying the techniques of inquiry and critical analysis that will enable you to find, test, and improve answers to any problems. It's process. Process takes doing. A seminar makes the doing collaborative: engage thoughtfully with our texts, bring a serious curiosity to the traditions of thought and social and religious practice that lie behind them, share with your colleagues your insights, side-lights, and questions, and work together to develop understanding. Falling off from these standards hurts yourself and cheats your partners in the seminar. Don't: it's 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 tell me the reason, as soon as possible (in advance, if it's a schedulable reason).
• Legitimate absences include serious illness or another crisis beyond your control. They should be documented in writing by the appropriate authority. Appointments are not beyond your control: they should be scheduled for times other than class meetings.
• Regardless of the reason for an absence, you are responsible for the work the seminar does.
• It is better to attend part of a class than to miss it entirely. Just don't disturb your colleagues coming or going.
• 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.
• Academic honesty: 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 in .pdf form. The Department of Classical Studies' Policy on Academic Integrity incorporates these documents. We also recommend you consult the helpful webpage Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism, provided by the Council of Writing Program Administrators, to which the Writing Center refers.
  • 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 Learning Assistance Services, on the Web and in the Sullivan Center for Student Services on the Lakeshore Campus, offers workshops on topics such as study skills and test taking. They will also help arrange accommodations 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; Sullivan Center 245 and on the Water Tower Campus in 25 East Pearson 605) both offer consultation services.

Revised 13 January 2009 by jlong1@luc.edu
http://www.luc.edu/classicalstudies/