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CLC 105Z Weblog |
This web site serves as the syllabus for the following four (4) courses. Reading assignments for all classes are identical. The 105Z sections include additional assignments and a more varied grading structure (detailed below). News
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I strongly suggest that you contact me face-to-face immediately before or after class. The department mailbox is haphazardly checked. Email is monitored daily but is not a medium predisposed to fruitful dialog. Course Description and OverviewUse the links below to navigate the various sections on this page description DescriptionThese sections of CLC 105 & CLC 105Z: Myths of the Greek World will focus on the major Homeric and Hesiodic myths from the Archaic period with supplemental information interspersed from time periods ranging from Archaic to Roman Greece. In addition to knowing the major myths from ancient Greece, students will develop an understanding of how myth functions in both the ancient and modern worlds. The theoretical approaches adopted by this class are largely structuralist and new historicist. These approaches will be supplemented by psychanalytic and reader response theory. However, the main thrust of these Greek Myth sections is to develop an understanding of how the myths of the Greek world function within the Greek world. Specific to CLC 105Z Students:
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Student ExpectationsStudents are expected to attend class regularly and ON TIME; pay attention in class; take notes; keep up with assigned readings; successfully complete assignments; participate in class; and complete all assignments in a timely fashion. If you need to use the bathroom, do so BEFORE, not during, class. If you cannot hold your urine for the duration of class, then there is something seriously wrong, and you need to see a doctor about your incontinence problem immediately. Cell phones are NOT to be used during class. Put your phones on vibrate or, better yet, TURN THEM OFF. Do not get up during the middle of class to take a phone call. Students should not be going in and/or out of the room for any reason during lectures. It is extremely obnoxious, annoying and disrespectful. DO NOT DO IT. Go to the bathroom before class begins. Students must come to class ready to learn (i.e., ready to take notes & ask questions). This includes bringing the proper materials: pen/pencil, a notebook, a copy of the previous night's reading. This all seems like common sense stuff, but believe you me, it needs to be stated.
Attendance policyI reserve the right to penalize students for excessive absences. If a student misses four or more full classes, that student will fail the course. No questions asked. No quarter given. Each day of class is approximately one week in the standard academic year. Constant tardiness or leaving early will also result in a grade penalty. I am not obligated to inform you when you've crossed the line from acceptable/understandable tardiness to penalized tardiness. I will, however, try to warn any students ahead of time that they are pushing the envelope on this issue. Penalties will vary by the degree to which the student is tardy, the frequency, and the degree to which such events interrupt lectures.
Examination policiesIf I even see a cell phone or any electronic device during the exam, then the student in question will automatically fail the exam in question. Failure of the exam, incidentally, entails failure of the entire course (40%-50%). Do not bring books, bags (including pocket books), hats or other extraneous material into the room on the day of the final exam. If you do, they must be left at the bottom of the room for the duration of the test. Anyone found in violation of this policy will automatically fail the exam. All that is required on the day of the exam is a pen or pencil (ideally a couple of them). Quizzes are sometimes administered orally. Sometimes they will be open note quizzes. THEY ARE NEVER OPEN BOOK. If I see students using books or sharing notes, those in question will automatically fail the quiz. If there is a second incident, you will receive a zero for the entire quiz grade (20%-50% of the course grade). Don't cheat. I have eyes like a hawk - a near sighted, astigmatic hawk, but a hawk nonetheless. LATE ASSIGNMENTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. FAILURE TO SUBMIT AN ASSIGNMENT ON TIME (ALWAYS THE START OF THE CLASS THAT IT'S DUE) WILL RESULT IN A GRADE OF ZERO FOR THE ASSIGNMENT IN QUESTION. Arriving to class after a quiz has begun or has been collected does NOT entitle the student in question to either (a) be granted more time to complete the quiz or (b) take the quiz after it has been collected.
ScheduleThe reading schedule is available on the page titled "schedule" on the navigation bar of this page (it's on the left near the top of the page). Note that on July 17, the morning class is foreshortened and the afternoon class begins later than usual. General Education RequirementCLC105 - Myths of the Greek World satisfies the general education requirement for disciplinary practices in Humanities. Humanities courses teach students to analyze and interpret texts, ideas, artifacts, and discourse systems, and the human values, traditions, and beliefs that they reflect. CLC 105Z fufills all of the general education requirements as CLC 105 and, additionally, fulfills the University's general education lower level writing intensive requirement.
Academic Dishonesty & PlagiarismPlagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty (e.g., cheating on quizzes/exams) are serious offenses. Students found to be in blatant violation of the university�s policies will be reported to the dean�s office per university regulations and receive a failing grade (a zero, in fact) for the assignment in question. A second offense will result in automatic failure of the course. Plagiarism is representing another person�s work as your own. This (obviously) includes buying a paper or having someone else write your paper, but it also means you have to be careful to CITE the information that you use in your paper and that you know how/when to use quotations and paraphrases. Cheating on exams is often, although not always, a form of plagiarism - although both practices are equally condemned by the university, so don't do it! Plagiarism as defined in the Undergraduate Bulletin: Presenting as one�s own work the work of another person (for example, the words, ideas, information, data, evidence, organizing principles, or style of presentation of someone else). Plagiarism includes paraphrasing or summarizing without acknowledgment, submission of another student�s work as one�s own, the purchase of prepared research or completed papers or projects, and the unacknowledged use of research sources gathered by someone else. Failure to indicate accurately the extent and precise nature of one�s reliance on other sources is also a form of plagiarism. The student is responsible for understanding the legitimate use of sources, the appropriate ways of acknowledging academic, scholarly, or creative indebtedness, and the consequences for violating University regulations. |
