POL 3221: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY ANALYSIS
Course-related Extra Credit
In most of my courses you can extra credit for various things like
finding errors in the text, etc. A description of that kind of extra
credit appears here. In some
courses, however, like this one, you can get extra credit points for doing
things related to the course. These are listed below, along with
their extra credit value. Remember that each extra credit is worth
1/20 of a letter grade -- 20 extra credit points would raise your grade
from a C+ to a B+. But the credit values aren't huge. I'm not
paying for your participation in something you wouldn't really like doing;
I'm simply acknowledging in a concrete way that you're thinking and learning
outside the confines of the course.
xx. [?? pts]
Video report: Watch a video in the UMD Library, and write a 500-word
essay describing its message and in particular how it relates to Pol 3570.
[2 pts]
xx (VCxx)
Book report: Same as the video report, above. [5 pts]
xx
Dealer's Choice: Convince me that something you want to do is worth
extra credit. Even if you don't convince me, I'll think well of you
for trying. [Potentially unlimited points]