September 6, 2009
The classroom is a public, shared, and professional workspace, not your home or the cafeteria. You are expected to act in a serious, attentive, and considerate manner at all times, both there and in any other spaces we go to individually or as a group. Anything you do that is not part of the class […]
September 6, 2009
Same as writing skills. A liberal arts education aims equally to develop the ability to express ideas orally: to be clear and concise, to argue for a point of view, and to respond critically to the statements of others. Don’t be shy — that doesn’t work in college. For students who come from a background […]
September 6, 2009
Almost every college course aims in part to develop your skills at clear, correct, and convincing written expression. We will discuss some points of this in class, but there is much more to know than we can cover orally; English 110 focuses more directly on such skills, but they are necessary across all disciplines. Four […]
September 6, 2009
is the most serious academic offense, because it is both theft and lying. If you pass off someone else’s ideas or words as your own without proper acknowledgment, you are: 1) robbing the original author of proper credit for his or her creative work (would you like someone doing that to you?), and 2) failing […]
September 6, 2009
will not be “curved” — college is different from high school. If everyone deserves an A, everyone gets an A. If everyone gets bored and stops showing up, everyone gets an F (and the instructor gets a vacation). For grading expectations, see separate handout/website page.
