UCLR 100C-002: Interpreting Literature - Classical Studies Personal Voices in Greek and Roman Literature Spring Semester 2024 Dr. Jacqueline Long Monday-Wednesday-Friday 9:20am-10:10am Life Science Building 412

Policies and Assessment

Grades will be based on:

Letter-point conversions in the grade scale

A A-

100-90 89.9-86.7

B+ B B-

86.6-83.3 83.2-80 79.9-76.7

C+ C C-

76.6-73.3 73.2-70 69.9-66.7

D+ D F

66.6-63.3 63.2-60 59.9-0

Participation and other policies

• Class meetings
  • In connection with this course, we are partners in one another's learning. We each bring to this collaboration the wisdom of our own experience, both academic and otherwise. Foster a serious curiosity about the literary and cultural traditions that formed our texts. Engage with them. Share your insights, side-lights, and questions. Work together on deepening understanding for us all. Build a collegial common space. Exchange ideas supportively. Respect the differences between our world and the ancient Mediterranean. Recognize similarities. Extend grace to the complexities among us. All class-participants should feel safe to exercise their right to explore ideas and voice opinions without fear of dismissiveness, bias, harshness, or profanity.
  • Active, engaged, thoughtful participation in classroom discussion and other activities constitutes part of your success in this course. Missing class or disengaging from the class around you cheats you of the opportunity to enrich your understanding with the insights of others and to share your insights and questions with us. Courtesy displays your respect for others; giving your best to your classes also serves self-respect and self-interest.
  • Please come to all course-work prepared with the day's assignment and ready to focus, learn actively, and contribute to our shared endeavor. Always bring currently assigned texts with you to class meetings.
  • If you can avoid missing class, don't miss class. Prepared is better than unprepared, and prompt is better than late, but even unprepared attendance or late arrival is better than missing out completely - just don't disrupt your fellow students.
  • Distractions from learning are a problem for everyone, especially in our time together. Laptop computers, tablets, cell phones, recording equipment, iPods, and other electronic devices capable of being used for communication or entertainment may not be used in the classroom during class meetings for any purpose that does not support the work of the class, such as consulting texts or taking notes. Any other use will require them to be and to remain turned off and put away. Noisy or smelly food should not come into the classroom. Private conversations should be conducted outside of class time.
  • Standards of contribution include:

    Positive: raises questions from study-materials that generate intellectually rewarding discussion	in most meetings	in some meetings	in few meetings
    Positive: guides discussion to employ intellectually rewarding methods	in most meetings	in some meetings	in few meetings
    Positive: supplies pertinent information in discussion	in most meetings	in some meetings	in few meetings
    Positive: makes insightful connections	in most meetings	in some meetings	in few meetings
    Negative: disrupts discussions with distraction or disrespect	never	once or twice, with apology	with some regularity or wantonness

  • It is an expectation of this class that you will attend and contribute actively, collaboratively, constructively.
  • If you are forced to miss class, please document the legitimacy of the absence, as soon as possible - in advance, if the absence is subject to scheduling. (N.b.: Appointments should be scheduled for times other than when a class for which you are registered meets.)
  • Regardless of the reason for an absence, you are responsible for the work the class does. It is not possible to make up in-class activities for any days you miss class, whether the absence as such is excused or unexcused.
  • Absences shall be defined as excessive, as follows:
    • Each unexcused absence beyond a total of three absences, excused or unexcused. That is, excused absences kill your budget of unexcused absences.
    • Repeated chronic lateness (more than 10 minutes) shall be counted as partial absences, as will early exits from class. Nevertheless, it is better to attend even part of a class than to miss it entirely. Do not, however, disturb your colleagues.
    • Absences will be totalled over the whole semester.
  • The right to attend class meetings:
    • The section "Registration" of Loyola University's Undergraduate Studies Catalog provides that "No one is permitted to attend any class without first officially registering for that class."
    • Please be aware that not having satisfied a course's pre-requisites constitutes grounds for being withdrawn from that course at any time.
  • All principles regarding academic integrity apply to all classroom activities including discussion and collaborative work.
• Collaborative work
  • Active cooperation is expected of all students in every phase of collaborative endeavors. Everybody has a busy schedule and many obligations to juggle. You owe it to one another to plan together well in advance, as well as to carry out your responsibilities in your shared work.
  • It is not possible to make up in-class activities if you miss class that day, including collaborative presentations.
  • All principles regarding academic integrity apply to collaborative work just as they do to individual work.
• Written assignments
  • The required and the optional Exercises are due according to the Schedule of Assignments, no later than the start of the class period for which they are assigned. Exceptions can be made only in extraordinary circumstances, for valid, documented reasons.
  • All work must be submitted in legible form. In Sakai, please use .docx files. Not all other types transmit.
  • Please proofread rigorously, including grammar and spelling: intelligibility counts.
  • On all your work, practice the Mundane Good Habits of Competent Writers, a.k.a. the Style Sheet. The more you engrain them in habit, the easier it will be to write with authority.
  • If academic writing in English, grammar, or spelling are not your strongest skills, or if you want merely reinforcement and fine-tuning, make an appointment with the Writing Center. They offer coaching and good advice at all levels.
  • All principles regarding academic integrity apply to written work, both required and optional.
• Exams
  • Please bring pencils with good erasers or non-smeary pens on the days when exams are scheduled. Please also, to the extent possible, write legibly and spell correctly. It makes your meaning clearer. I appreciate the care you exercise.
  • Exams can be rescheduled only for truly dire and documented reasons.
  • Loyola University's Undergraduate Studies Catalog reflects the fact that instructors do not have authority to re-schedule final examinations. If your course-schedule results in your facing four (4) final exams on a single day, you may petition Assistant Dean Patricoski to have one (1) of the four re-scheduled on the authority of the College of Arts and Sciences.
  • All principles regarding academic integrity apply to quizzes and exams.
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Loyola University Chicago is committed to the recognition of and respect for variations in racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds and with regard to class, gender, age, physical and mental ability/disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression. The website of the University's Anti-Racisim Initiative details some efforts to address systemic inequities of our society and advance our community towards full inclusion and anti-racism. Our conduct with one another should support these endeavors.
  • Addressing one another at all times by using appropriate names and gender pronouns honors and affirms individuals of all gender identities and gender expressions. Misgendering and heteronormative language excludes the experiences of individuals whose identities may not fit the gender binary, and/or who may not identify with the sex they were assigned at birth. In this course we strive to provide an affirming environment for all students with regard to their names and gender pronouns.
• Academic Integrity, a.k.a. the life's blood of the intellect:
  • Any practice of academic dishonesty (cheating, plagiarism, obstructing the work of other students, etc.) perpetrated in this course will result in failure of the course. Do not do it. For basic principles and definitions, see the subsection Academic Integrity (click the > sign to get the embedded text) in the Undergraduate Academic Standards and Regulations in the 2023-24 Academic Catalog/Standards & Regulations. The College of Arts and Sciences endorses and upholds this policy, as does the Department of Classical Studies.
  • It is the policy of Loyola University Chicago, "To maintain our culture of excellence and integrity, students are not to use AI assisted technology in the classroom unless they are specifically authorized to do so by their faculty for an assignment, a test, a quiz, or any deliverable that will be graded."
  • Plagiarism consists of implying or claiming that somebody else's words or ideas are your own: copying text and pasting it into work you submit as yours is blatant, but re-wording the original still involves appropriating someone else's thought. If you're not doing your own thinking, within the parameters of each assignment, you're not getting the experience that assignment was designed to give you. It's expected you will make use of sources as you do your thinking: always document them, whether you are referring to primary or secondary sources, whether you are quoting or paraphrasing. Re-submitting papers you have written yourself, in whole or in part, without full disclosure and explicit permission by all instructors concerned, also violates academic integrity. Guidance on the form of citations may be found, for example, in Turabian (also available via the tab "Citing Sources" in Loyola's Classical Studies Library Guide; this link will route you through the flagship login site if you are off-campus).
    • The University Libraries offer a Workshop page (titled Avoiding Plagiarism for First-Year Students because first year is where everybody starts, but really it's for everyone) defining plagiarism and offering advice and links to other resources that can help avoid it.
    • The Writing Program refers to the Council of Writing Program Administrators' detailed Statement of Best Practices for Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism.
    • Grammarly (also referred to by the Writing Program) offers concise tips How to Avoid Plagiarism: they emphasize repeatedly, it's crucial to acknowledge the sources from which you're drawing information or ideas, not only to avoid parroting words.
  • Loyola University Chicago requires that all instances of academic dishonesty must be reported to the chairperson of the department involved and to the academic Dean of the student's College.
  • Absolute adherence to the principles of academic honesty is important because learning is wholly personal: it only happens if you do it yourself. Your University record needs to match your real achievement.
• Copyright: Copyright law was designed to give rights to the creators of written work, artistic work, computer programs, and other creative materials. The Copyright Act requires that people who use or make reference to the work of others must follow a set of guidelines designed to protect authors’ rights. The complexities of copyright law in no way excuse users from following these rules. The safest practice is to refrain from distributing works used in class (whether distributed by the professor or used for research) because they are likely copyright-protected, and to cite any research or creative work you use in your classwork according to Turabian or other standard style-guide for the humanities. See further Loyola University Chicago copyright resources.
• Intellectual Property: All lectures, notes, homework templates, and other instructional materials in this class are the intellectual property of the professor. As a result, they may not be distributed or shared in any manner, either on paper or virtually, without my written permission. Lectures may not be recorded without my written consent; when consent is given, those recordings may be used for review only and may not be distributed. Recognizing that your work, too, is your intellectual property, I will not share or distribute your work without your written permission.

Academic support-resources at Loyola University Chicago include:

• Academic Advising & Support Services, Sullivan Center, Suite 260, 6339 Sheridan Rd., LSC; 773-508-7714, FSYAdvising@luc.edu
• Classical Studies Subject Specialist Annette Alvarado can schedule online Research Consultation Appointments with you through the link: if her name doesn't display at once, toggle to the Water Tower Campus list to select her
• Information Technology Services, 773-508-4ITS, helpdesk@luc.edu
• Student Accessibility Center, Sullivan Center, Suite 117, LSC; 773-508-3700; sac@luc.edu
• Tutoring Center, Sullivan Center Room 245, LSC; 773-508-7708; tutoringcenter@luc.edu
• University Libraries: Cudahy Library, LSC, 773-508-2632; Lewis Library, 25 E Pearson, WTC, 312-915-6622; Ask a Librarian
• Writing Center: graduate and undergraduate tutors as well as professional instructors including ESL specialists

Revised 23 January 2024 by jlong1@luc.edu
http://www.luc.edu/classicalstudies/