Grading and Evaluations
Final Grades will be calculated as follows:
2 papers -- 15% each
2
exams -- 15% each
1
small research project -- 17.5%
Class
participation -- 15% (includes brief presentation on readings that will
be graded P/F)
Quizzes
-- 7.5%
Remember:
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More than 2 absences in the semester will affect your grade.
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Only excused absences qualify for makeup work.
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Late work will not be accepted. Makeup exams will not * be
provided.
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Exceptions to this policy are provided only in cases of true
emergencies.
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If you experience an emergency, contact the professor ASAP to make alternative
arrangements.
* Click here to
review my
zero-tolerance policy on plagiarism and cheating.
Image
credit: Metropolitan Museum, New York; Book of the Dead; a
papyrus showing the weighing of the heart ceremony in which the gods
weigh the deceased’s heart to determine whether s/he merits an
afterlife.
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