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Requirements Summary

Course Requirements
Grades and Supporting Information

AVISO: Unexcused Late Assignments and Extra Credit Papers receive no credit
Pleas for exceptions will fall on deaf ears

If you really want to know the details of why that is so, have a look at the memo below that I recently sent to a student. The details change from semester to semester, but the basic scheduling problems remain the same. . . . It's basically a boring read, but important none the same--especially if you're the procrastinating type. -- Tim Roufs

A Memo to a Student on Why Your [Late] Extra Credit Will not Be Accepted


Tim Roufs

Forum, Case Study, Exams, Extra Credit

  • Forum

    • Enrolled members of the class are required to participate in discussions, in class, on the Forum, wikis . . .

    • The s2019 Ancient Middle America Final Exam will be at 8:00-9:55 on Tuesday, 7 May 2019, in Cina 214

      REM: Bring your Laptop

      Laptop
      ,

  • Case Study

    • Case Study Paper on a "Middle American Personality"
      (up to 100 points)

      • Case Study Paper detailed instructions

      • sample paper outline

        • Length: 6 - 7 well-written pages

          • including one title page (see sample title page below) and and at least one separate "Works Cited" (or "References") page (see sample below)

          • that leaves that leaves 4-5 pages of text

            • with one-inch margins all around
            • with body type font 11 or 12
            • illustrations, tables, figures, diagrams . . . may be included, but must be properly placed and cited

        • s2019 The MA Case Study is due no later than the end of Week 13, Saturday, 20 April 2019

          AVISO: Late Case Study papers will not be accepted unless (1) arrangements for an alternate date have been arranged in advance, or (2) medical emergencies or similar extraordinary unexpected circumstances make it unfeasible to turn in the assignment by the announced due date.


          • named something like YourUMDid_case_study_1

        • Unexcused late Case Study papers receive no credit

          • Papers must follow a college writing handbook such as Andrea Lunsford’s The St. Martin's Handbook, 6th Ed., (NY: St. Martin’s, 2008)

          • Or you can follow the Sociology-Anthropology Department writing guide on the web at <http://www.d.umn.edu/socanth/home/guideind.php>.
          • Other web resources such as OWL logo, Online Writing Lab, Purdue University. (the Purdue Online Writing Lab) <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/>

          • or Paradigm Online Writing Assistant at <http://www.powa.org/>

          • Other useful information is available on the "Writing Labs, On-Line Assisstance, and Reference Works" page

          • For your footnotes, "bibliography" ("Works Cited" or "References"), and other matters like that, use either the APA (American Psychological Association) citation style, the MLA (Modern Language Association) style, the CMS (Chicago) style, or the CBE (Council of Biology Editors) style. Don't make up your own.
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  • Exams
    (up to 1000 points)

    • midsemester exam

      • The s2019 Ancient Middle America Midterm Exam will be Tuesday, 26 February 2019

        REM: Bring your Laptop

        Laptop


      • 4 questions selected randomly by "James" at Moodle
        (up to 400 points)


    • final exam

      • The s2019 Ancient Middle America Final Exam will be at 8:00-9:55 on Tuesday, 7 May 2019, in Cina 214

        REM: Bring your Laptop

        Laptop
        , from now

      • 6 questions selected randomly by "James" at Moodle
        (up to 400 points)
      • The final exam will be cumulative, with emphasis on Chs. 06 - "Epilogue" of Mexico and Chs. 04 - 10 of The Maya, in-class videos / film, important e-mails, Forum posts, assigned web materials and lectures.

    • Makeup Exams
  •  

  • Extra Credit Paper (optional)
    • (up to 100 points)

    • Papers must follow a college writing handbook such as Andrea Lunsford’s The St. Martin's Handbook, 6th Ed., (NY: St. Martin’s, 2008)

    • Or you can follow the Sociology-Anthropology Department writing guide on the web at <http://www.d.umn.edu/socanth/home/guideind.php>.
    • Other web resources such as OWL logo, Online Writing Lab, Purdue University. (the Purdue Online Writing Lab) <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/>

    • or Paradigm Online Writing Assistant at <http://www.powa.org/>

    • Other useful information is available on the "Writing Labs, On-Line Assisstance, and Reference Works" page

    • For your footnotes, "bibliography" ("Works Cited" or "References"), and other matters like that, use either the APA (American Psychological Association) citation style, the MLA (Modern Language Association) style, the CMS (Chicago) style, or the CBE (Council of Biology Editors) style. Don't make up your own.


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