Early Celtic
Cultures, Spring 2002
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Early Celtic
Cultures, Spring 2002
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It is not only crucial you attend class, but it is equally important that you contribute your ideas actively and regularly to our class discussions and activities. To be able to participate effectively in class, you are expected to be well prepared for class discussion. This means you should not only read assignments, but think carefully about what you read prior to our discussion of those assignments. It also means that, as with any other 3-credit college honors course, you should plan on spending a minimum of 9 hours a week on class-related activities, such as reading assignments, research for papers, responding on e-mail, drafting and proofreading papers, etc. However, effective class participation involves more than simply coming to class well prepared; it also means voluntarily sharing your ideas. While all students cannot express their ideas in class all the time, I expect you to volunteer your thoughts as often as possible. Every student's views are valuable to our collective learning process. If, for whatever reason, you keep ideas to yourself, then the collaborative educational exchange this class is meant to be becomes impossible. To encourage such an exchange of ideas, short in-class assignments, group exercises, creative projects, freewrites, e-mail exercises, and other homework will be given frequently. The majority of these should take most students 20 minutes or less to complete. These assignments are designed to generate class discussion and to give you a place to start when thinking about early Celtic cultures. They will not be graded or collected during class. Nevertheless, you are expected to perform such assignments to the best of your ability and to have them ready when I ask for them. Responsible and serious effort on these exercises will make up a substantial portion of your participation score. Participation scores will be earned according to the following scale: 15 points = serious effort on all in-class activities, and volunteering your ideas during most every class; 12 points = serious effort on most in-class activities, volunteering your ideas in more than half our classes; 9 points = serious effort on most in-class activities, volunteering your ideas in about half our classes; 6 points = adequate effort on most in-class activities, volunteering your ideas in less than half our classes; 3 points = weak effort on most in-class activities, volunteering your ideas in less than half our classes. |
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