Course Policies - updated 2/16

Your grade will be based on attendance, participation, and written assignments. You are expected to attend, for the full time scheduled, not only class meetings but also screenings, lectures, and other events scheduled on the syllabus. If you are not sure what you are required to attend it is your responsibility to ask. If you are absent it is your responsibility to find out what you missed and to catch up; ask other students and check the course blog. Late work will not usually be accepted except in special situations that have been arranged in advance. Quizzes and in-class assignments cannot be made up. Participation consists in showing up prepared (having done the scheduled reading and assignments), and contributing to class discussion and activities. We strongly encourage you to attend our office hours but doing so does not add to your participation grade. We will always answer your e-mails but please put “R1B” in the subject line, sign with your full name, and give us several days to respond.

You will be required, one time over the course, to post a reading response to the blog. This should consist of three or four numbered paragraphs which each reference a specific passage in the text and focus on that passage in order to make an argument or offer an insightful interpretation. You will also be required, at least twice, to respond to other students’ posts on the blog. Append your comments to their reading response; refer to the numbered paragraph you are commenting on and the relevant passage in the text; go back to the text yourself and offer an elaboration or counterargument. Your comments should not be as much about ‘liking’ or ‘disliking’ the student’s response but either lending further support for their argument or offering an alternative reading of the same material. Always sign your full name to your blog posts since your login may not be recognizable.

Unless otherwise specified, all non-digital assignments must be handed in typed, printed, and stapled, and must include your name, the date, the course title, and an assignment title on the cover page. Papers must be formatted in black Times 12 font, double spaced, one-sided, with 1” top and bottom margins and 1.25” left and right margins. Please use a header or footer with page numbers and your last name since sometimes pages become detached. I know this seems nitpicky but please don’t use paperclips; in piles of papers they tend to slide off or attach to other people’s pages and ‘steal’ them.

Please help up create a productive academic environment by acting professionally and respectfully. If you have special needs or concerns please let us know as soon as possible and we will try to accommodate them. Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated, and any form of plagiarism will be grounds for failure of the course. If you are unsure about standard academic guidelines and campus policies please consult the following:

http://students.berkeley.edu/osl/sja.asp?id=983&rcol=1202 (academic dishonesty)
http://students.berkeley.edu/uga/conduct.asp (undergraduate code of conduct)
http://dsp.berkeley.edu (accommodating disabilities)



Point Breakdown (so far)

Ongoing Assignments
20 (once)- Reading Response
5 (twice)- Comments on someone’s reading response

Assignments/Quizzes
10 - 1/22 description of Stella painting
20 - 1/24 analysis of painting descriptions
5 - 1/29 reading quiz
5 - 2/11 reading quiz

Midterm
20 - 2/21 10-on-1 on photograph
30 - 2/26 passages with paraphrases
100 - 3/5 paper
150 - 3/21 revised paper
(200 total)

Events
25 - film review
25 - film or event review
50 - 4/22 performance

Attendance/participation
2 x (number of meetings)

Optional Bonuses
10 (up to three times) - extra event reviews
2 (up to 5 times) - extra comments on blog