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Course and College Policies

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1. Attendance Policy Attendance in this course is crucial, and you will be rewarded for having either perfect, or near-perfect attendance. If you have perfect attendance or miss only one class, I will give you five extra credit points on your final exam.

 

Missing two or three classes over the course of the term will not affect your final grade, either positively or negatively, but being absent from more than three (which would mean you are missing more than 10% of our class meetings), will lower your final grade, and in extreme cases may result in a failing grade.  If you are going to miss class for an extended period of time, please talk with me ahead of time and explain the reason. If you are experiencing a personal or medical hardship during the term, it is better to let me know about it ahead of time than to try and make up for missed time after.

 

Please note that being in “attendance” for this course means more than just showing up: I expect you to bring your book to every class meeting (heavy as it is!) and to observe the basic guidelines for Classroom Courtesy below. 

 

2. Late Work Your assignments are due at the beginning of class on the day they are assigned, so please start early, back up your work frequently and make sure you give yourself plenty of time to print your paper before class. I will accept late work up to one week after the due date, but will deduct one fraction of a grade (A- to B+, B to B-) for each day that passes after the due date. After one week, I will grade the assignment as a 0.

 

If you anticipate problems with completing an assignment on time due to a serious emergency, you must let me know before it is due.

 

3. Completion of the Course You must complete all of the work for the course in order to receive a passing grade. Also, it is the College's policy on incomplete grades that I may not grant an incomplete unless you have completed 75% of the work for the class.

 

4. Classroom Courtesy I want this course to be a place where, for a brief three hours a week, we can freely discuss ideas and explore the rich literature of Shakespeare.  I have found that certain interruptions can be extremely distracting to both your classmates and me, so I ask that you observe these basic guidelines of classroom decorum:

 

  • Please come on time to class and make your bathroom breaks, coffee runs, and smoke breaks BEFORE coming to class.  Unless you have an emergency, I ask that you join us for the entirety of class.

  • I encourage you to use your smart phone or laptop for course-related work during class. But I expect you to be fully present during our time together, so during class, please do not text message, send e-mail, surf the web, use Morse code, telepathy, or do anything else that will distract you or others from the work of the course.

 

5. Technology I assume that students will have a basic-to-intermediate level of experience with electronic communications and resources for this class. I will periodically send out announcements via e-mail, so it is important that you frequently check your newpaltz.edu e-mail account for important messages about the class.  If any of the technologies we are using present a problem for you, please do not hesitate to speak to me and I will do what I can to help you with these resources.

 

6. Office Hours/Contacting Me I am always available for your questions over e-mail and after class, so please don’t hesitate to talk to me about any aspect of the course or literature in general.  You can come and see me in my office hours without e-mailing ahead or making an appointment. My office hours are available not only for your questions about upcoming assignments, grades, and so on, but also for you to ask a question you thought of after class, make a point that was missed by our discussions, brainstorm paper ideas, or just talk about something that interests you in our class. 

 

I am also available virtually through AIM and Google Talk during office hours, and I am happy to chat online about any questions you have (if I’m not in conference with another student). My screen name is cyrusmulready (creatively enough!).  Please feel free to get in touch with me that way, as well.

 

7. Plagiarism Plagiarism, according to the College’s advising handbook, is “the representation, intentional or unintentional, of someone else's words or ideas as one's own.”  You must, therefore, put in quotation marks the words of others and properly cite, using MLA guidelines, where those words come from.  If you are paraphrasing someone else’s ideas, you must also give proper citation and credit to the author of those ideas.  I will strictly follow the College guidelines in reporting incidents of plagiarism:

 

Faculty members must report in writing cases of cheating, plagiarism or forgery to their department chair, academic Dean and Associate Dean for Student Affairs. Faculty members are also responsible for making the initial determination of the academic penalty to be imposed in cases of cheating, plagiarism, or forgery and for informing in writing the department chair, the academic Dean, and the student of the alleged violation and the proposed penalty. The academic penalty may range, for instance, from failure of a specific piece of work in a course to failure of the course itself. Cases requiring disciplinary and/or grade appeal action will be adjudicated in accordance with Procedures for Resolving Academic Integrity Cases, a copy of which is available in the office of the Vice President for Students Affairs, the office of the Provost for Academic Affairs, and in the academic Deans’ offices.

 

At a minimum, I will give a paper that contains plagiarism a failing grade and will report the incident as described above.  If you have any questions or doubts about what constitutes plagiarism, please talk to me about anything you are unsure of before you turn it in.  When in doubt, it is always best to give credit to a source.

 

8. Students with Disabilities I will comply with all provisions of The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Please alert me early in the semester if you have a disability that will require accommodations.

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