Readings
Most of the assigned reading can be found through links within the syllabus located on the course website. Texts posted through the library’s electronic reserve [ER] system can be accessed using the password “button.” The following required texts are available for purchase at the IU Bookstore. They can also be obtained easily and cheaply from other retailers.
You will need to refer to the readings during many of our class meetings, and will want to bring them (or very detailed notes) with you to class.
Assignments
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Attendance is mandatory
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Seven short (1-2 page) exercises, lowest grade dropped (45%)
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Classroom exercises and participation (15%)
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Midterm exam (15%)
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Final exam (25%)
Professionalism
Our basic expectation in this course is that everyone will conduct themselves in a professional and collegial manner. Please assess your own actions according to standards that would apply in the work place. What would your boss think if you answered your cell phone, checked email, or skipped out in the middle of a business meeting? Or if you failed to show up?
Special Needs
Special needs may be created by disabilities, chronic illness, or religious requirements. Please come talk to us about them as soon as possible. The same is true for conflicts you know about ahead of time. It is easy to make arrangements ahead of time and hard to fix things afterwards
Absences
Attendance at all classes is expected, and will be monitored. However, you may miss two classes without penalty. This allowance is intended to cover illness, family emergencies, and other circumstances beyond your control. Use it wisely and sparingly. In-class assignments cannot be made up.
In most cases, attendance will be reflected in the classroom exercise and participation grade, and it might determine whether a borderline final grade is rounded up or down. However, once you have missed more than three weeks of class (six sessions), every additional unexcused absence will reduce your final grade by 5%.
Academic Honesty
All of your academic work is expected to comply with Indiana University’s Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct. Be scrupulous in citing your sources in all your written work. All quotations, derivative ideas and uncommon facts must be footnoted. While we encourage conversations with other students about the course material, all of your written work must be the original product of your own research and thought. Plagiarism will result in failure of and withdrawal from the class, and will become a permanent part of the student's transcript and academic record. For further guidance about avoiding plagiarism, see the College of Arts and Sciences web pages on Plagiarism: What it Is and How to Avoid It.