LATN 284/345: Horace, Satires Spring Semester 2010 Dr. Jacqueline Long Tuesday-Thursday 1:00pm-2:15pm Information Commons 111

Policies and Assessment

Grades will be based on:

LATN 284

LATN 345

Contribution to the Collective Endeavor (thoughtful participation in discussion of language, poetry, content, and context: both asking good questions and helping to explore answers well) Penalty for excessive absences (see below)	15% the Contribution component will have 2.5% deducted for each absence falling within the definition of excess (see below)		Contribution to the Collective Endeavor (thoughtful participation in discussion of language, poetry, content, and context: both asking good questions and helping to explore answers well) Penalty for excessive absences (see below)	10% the Contribution component will have 2.5% deducted for each absence falling within the definition of excess (see below)
Short quizzes (cumulative average; final quiz is weighted double)	35%		Short quizzes (cumulative average; final quiz is weighted double)	25%
Written homework (assigned in class)	15%		Written homework (assigned in class)	7.5%
Researched commentaries	17.5%		Researched commentaries	12.5%
Literary translations	17.5%		Literary translations	12.5%
			Seminar reports and discussion leadership (critical summary of problems and scholarship)	12.5%
			Written report of researched project (problem, evidence, analysis, argument, documentation)	20%

The "midterm grade" will reflect the weighted average, pro-rated, of the components completed to date.

Respect and other policies

• The most meaningful education is less about answers to any particular set of problems than acquiring and applying the techniques of inquiry and critical analysis that will enable you to find, test, and improve answers to any problems. It's process. Process takes doing. A seminar makes the doing collaborative: engage thoughtfully with our texts, bring a serious curiosity to the traditions of thought and literary and social practice that lie behind them, share with your colleagues your insights, side-lights, and questions, and work together to develop understanding. Falling off from these standards hurts yourself and cheats your partners in the seminar. Instead, uphold them: it's a matter of self-respect.
  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

• If you are forced to miss class, please tell me the reason, as soon as possible (in advance, if it's a schedulable reason).
• Legitimate absences include serious illness or another crisis beyond your control. They should be documented in writing by the appropriate authority. Appointments are not beyond your control: they should be scheduled for times other than class meetings.
• Regardless of the reason for an absence, you are responsible for the work the seminar does.
• It is better to attend part of a class than to miss it entirely. Just don't disturb your colleagues coming or going.
• All written assignments are due physically in hand at the start of the class period for which they are assigned. Exceptions can be made only in extraordinary circumstances, for good and documented reasons.
• Academic honesty: 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 on "Academic Integrity" in the General Academic Standards and Regulations and the College of Arts and Sciences' Academic Integrity Statement. The Department of Classical Studies' Policy on Academic Integrity incorporates these documents. We also recommend you consult the helpful discussion of The Use and Misuse of Source Materials, provided by Loyola's Writing Center.
  • Loyola University 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.
  • Learning is wholly personal: it only happens if you do it yourself. Your University record should be certifying only what has really happened.

Additional University resources

• Loyola's Academic Advising and Support Services, on the Web and in the Sullivan Center for Student Services on the Lakeshore Campus, offer various pieces of advice as Academic Success Tools and will schedule workshops for practical assistance with things like study skills and test taking.
• Services for Students with Disabilities can help arrange accommodations for students who need that support.
• The Tutoring Center (physically in the Sullivan Center; peer-counselors) and the Writing Centers (sponsored by the Department of English: graduate students with expertise in writing pedagogy; Sullivan Center 245 and on the Water Tower Campus in 25 East Pearson 605) both offer consultation services.

Revised 30 December 2009 by jlong1@luc.edu
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