Course Practices Required

1. There will be three exams. I will distribute a brief study guide before each exam. The exams will consist of questions that will require brief answers of one to three sentences. If you miss a exam, you may take a make-up in the Testing Center before the next class. If you cannot make up the exam at this point, you will need to make special arrangements with me to take an alternative exam later in the semester. This alternative exam will be an essay exam. The ethics exams you take will be entirely separate from the social science exams you take. 
    

2. You will keep a course journal.  In this journal you will record your reactions to the assigned readings and your responses to questions that we pose in class. The journal should not consist of notes or summaries of the readings. Rather, you should take positions and offer arguments for those positions. You may also consider ways in which the material we read in class relates to your own experiences. You should also use your journal to explore the connection between the two classes that make up this tandem. Your journal will be collected three times during the semester.  We will write comments, and we will give you tentative grades.  However, the final grade for your journal as a whole will be assigned at the end of the semester.  Your final journal should be at least 30 typewritten pages. In the interest of preserving trees, your journal should not be more than double-spaced, should not use larger than 12-point type, and should not have extra-large margins or large blank spaces between sections.
    

3. Participation is very important in this class.  You may earn participation points by attending class.  (If you are late or must leave early, you will receive half credit for the day.)   You will also need to attend at least three outside events related to the class, and you will receive one or two participation points for each of these events.  We will also offer some extra credit opportunities to make up for absences. These opportunities will involve attendance at events relevant to the class such as Women's Day or public forums on current events..  I do not distinguish between excused and unexcused absences. However, if you need to be absent because of something such as religious holidays or family emergency, I will make every effort to insure that you have ways to earn extra credit that will compensate for your absence.  A…34+, B….31-33, C….28-30, D….25-27.
   
    

4. In unusual circumstances such as hospitalization or compulsory military service, I will make arrangements so that students can fulfill course requirements in other ways.
   
   

 Methods of Evaluation

1.       The journal will represent 40% of your final grade.

2.       Class participation will represent 20% of your final grade.

3.      The first two exams will represent 20% of your final grade.

4.      The final exam will represent 20% of your final grade.