HIST 157 Requirements
All work in the course is done under the Honor Code.
Cases will be brought to the Honor Board, should questions concerning
potential or actual violation of the Honor Code arise
- One bibliographic assignment
- One short paper (6-7 pp)
- One research paper (12-15 pp)
- In-class presentation of your research and topical presentation
- Regular response papers on class readings (missing more than 2 will result in grade penalty)
- Class attendance (2 unexcused absences allowed, 3+ will entail grade penalty)
- Excessive lateness (more than 15 minutes) counts as absence.
- Class participation: the success of this class depends on our mutual involvement and therefore your participation in class discussions is crucial.
- To express their ideas freely, while being respectful to others.
- To meet with me during office hours to discuss issues related to the course or students? performance in the classroom.
- To make an appointment outside office hours (via email).
- To know their grade at any give time during the semester.
- To give me feedback throughout the duration of the semester (in fact, you are encouraged to do so).
- To receive accommodation for registered learning or other disabilities. They must be registered with the Dean's Office
- There are writing fellows available at the Writing Center, you can approach them on your own, or you may be referred to them, should the need arise.
- All written assignments are due on the day noted in the syllabus, via Moodle. No extensions will be given. There will be a grade penalty for lateness (1 grade per day).
- Papers are graded based on: clarity of writing; evidence provided to support the claim; insight; argument; spelling and punctuation; proper use of sources (footnotes, proper acknowledgment of ideas and sources).
- Footnoting should follow the Chicago 15th A style, available through the EndNote Program, or given in Mary Rampolla's book Mary Lynn Rampolla A Pocket Guide to Writing in History (Boston, New York: Bedford/St. Martin's Press). You can also use these guidelines: How to Cite Sources. Improper footnoting will result in grade penalty and/or referring the case to the Honor Board.
- Plagiarism is one of the most serious academic offenses a student can commit at Wesleyan.
- Instances of plagiarism:
- submitting essays or portions of essays written by other people as one's own;
- failing to acknowledge, through footnotes and bibliographical entries, the source of primary sources, or ideas that are essentially not one's own;
- failing to indicate paraphrases or ideas or verbatim expressions not one's own through proper use of quotations and footnotes;
- submitting an essay written for one course to a second course without having sought prior permission from both instructors (self-plagiarism).
- Bibliographic assignment (10%)
- Class Participation (10%)
- Weekly responses to class readings (5%)
- One short paper (20%: draft 10% and final version 10%)
- One 12-15-page research paper. (55%: bibliography 5%, outline 10% [they will be averaged], draft 20% and final paper 20%)
- Bonus: 100% rate of
attendance.
Penalties: missing more than 2 classes and/or 2 response papers, missing the assignment deadline.