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Diligent Reading and Active Participation

W601
2:30-3:45 p.m.
WH 116
Fall 2009

Tarez Samra Graban
Ballantine Hall 474
855-4888

Office: M 12-2,
R 11-12, & by appt.
tgraban@indiana.edu




last updated 9/2/09

All readings must be completed and brought to class in some form (digital or paper) on the day we are scheduled to discuss them. Please be prepared to read with rigor, allowing yourself plenty of time to grapple with difficult primary texts and complicated historical perspectives on those texts, so that you can give and take maximally. Look up new terms and engage with the content on the page. While you are in class, please do what you must and whatever is in your power to make our discussion space safe, accessible productive and useful to everyone.


Evaluation and Grade Distribution

Traces and Grids (11): 10 points each
Article Assessments (2): 15 points each
Final Project and Handout: 35 points
Final Exam Question: 25 points

Total: 200 points

At the end of the semester, I will convert your point score to a percentage, following the university's standard 12-point scale, with 90-100 indicating the A range, 80-89 indicating the B range, 70-79 indicating the C range, and 60-69 indicating the D range.

Attendance and Timeliness

All work must be submitted by its due date without exception. Much of your work will consist of building intellectual community through discussion, debate, and collective knowledge-making. Thus, you cannot cut class and somehow “make up” all that was missed (especially if you are scheduled to present your traces or grids). You are permitted three absences for illness, emergency, and family or university business. Please save them for a time of necessity and take the responsibility to get class notes. Each additional absence may lower your final grade by one-third of a letter grade. Habitual or excessive lateness will be treated like absences. In the event of an H1N1 outbreak on campus, this policy may be revised to allow for retroactive submission of work.

Academic Integrity

I expect you to maintain academic integrity at all times. Violations of academic integrity can result in automatic failure of the course and will require notification with the Office of Student Ethics (see the Code of Student Conduct for more information). Such violations occur when you do the following:

  • adopt, borrow, or reproduce ideas, words, or statements of another person without an appropriate acknowledge of indebtedness;
  • copy and paste sources, or deliberately use sources (print, digital, or Web) without careful integration;
  • misrepresent someone else's work as your own by purchasing it, handing in someone else’s work, or having someone do your work for you;
  • submit work for this class that you have already handed in or had evaluated for another class.

Support Services

Disability Services and the Adaptive Technologies offices of the Division of Student Affairs can arrange for assistance, auxiliary aids, or related services if you think a temporary or permanent disability might prevent you from being a full participant in the class. Contact them via website or phone at 855-7578 with any individual concerns. Students with special needs must be registered with Disability Services before classroom accommodations can be provided.