Fall 2019 Course Syllabi

·         Performance Indicator 2: Participates in class discussions, peer editing, and group activities or projects, responding productively and respectfully to the work and ideas of others and considering the ideas and suggestions of others. MEANS OF ACCOMPLISHING STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES: 1. Each student will be expected to read all material assigned in the syllabus and online. 2. A student-faculty conference is required during the first six weeks of class for all students with a D or F average. Faculty will schedule this conference during their office hours. Students wishing to withdraw from the class must have two documented conferences with the instructor. 3. Each student will be responsible for working on his/her areas of weakness. The instructor may assign remediation work and make an appointment with the student in the writing center during scheduled hours. 4. Pop quizzes, and/or weekly quizzes, may be used by the instructor to assess student progress. 5. PLAGIARISM is academic dishonesty and may be defined as submitting another’s work as your own. It includes failure to use quotation marks or other conventional marking around material quoted from any printed or electronic source. Plagiarism shall also include paraphrasing a specific source without indicating accurately what the source is. Plagiarism shall further include downloading essays or letting another person compose or rewrite a student's written assignment. Plagiarism will result in a zero (0) for the assignment. NOTE: At any time during the semester, the instructor may ask a student to meet with him or her and rewrite any submitted work suspected to be plagiarized. 6. Each instructor is responsible for conducting class in an orderly, efficient, professional manner and following this syllabus. All of each class period will be composed of a recognizable part of the subject matter of the course and syllabus, relating to one or more of the above objectives. The instructor is expected to be the expert, the authority, on the content of the course and is further expected to assist the student in mastering this content. In order to do this, the instructor will discuss the assigned reading and will carefully evaluate all written or oral work used in determining grades as specified in the syllabus. COURSE REQUIREMENTS Course requirements include reading and writing assignments in class and online to check reading comprehension and related writing skills as well as to improve simple documentation skills, group work, discussions, mid-term and final papers, and presentations. RELATIONSHIP TO CAMPUS THEME Students will read and discuss many essays in Sticks and Stones as it relates to nature, technology, and humanity. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY All assignments, tests, and quizzes will meet the standards of accepted Academic Integrity.