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WRITING ASSIGNMENTS

In each course students must write a minimum of 2400 words (about ten pages) of carefully considered and carefully written analysis. Often this takes the form of two five-page interpretive essays. The primary criteria of evaluation should be thesis formulation and textual support. Instructors are urged to nominate truly outstanding papers for the annual World Literature Essay Awards; nominators of the three award-winning essays will be recognized with an award of $100 from the Longman Publishing Company. Visit Essay Guidelines webpage for more information.

TESTING AND GRADING

Every course must have a final examination at the time specified by the University. The amount and format of other testing is at the discretion of the instructor. Some instructors (and some students!) prefer to have a quiz at the beginning of each class; others prefer fewer, longer tests. Most have at least one hour-long midterm exam. The importance ascribed to various kinds of work is at the discretion of the instructor, but should be specified in the syllabus and not subsequently changed without consulting the class. One common simple formula for course grades assigns 20% each to essays 1 and 2, the midterm and final exams, and classwork (quizzes, class participation, presentations, etc.).

PLAGIARISM

The Department strongly urges instructors to report every case for which there is evidence of plagiarism to the Academic Honesty Committee. Instructors have neither the burden nor the prerogative of determining the guilt or punishment of plagiarists, no matter how conclusive the evidence.

Most online sources of copied material can be found easily using standard web search engines. The College of Liberal Arts also subscribes to a detection service for more recondite sources. Information on this service can be obtained from Dr. Wiebke Kuhn or 844-2056. See “Easy Guide to Reporting Honesty Cases by Faculty Members” in the Tiger Cub (.pdf), which also contains, in the section “Cheating,” A Definition of Plagiarim (.pdf).

PROGRAM ASSESSMENT

To assess how well the program is meeting its goals, instructors will be asked each semester to copy the final exam and final paper of a particular randomly selected student, and to submit this material together with a copy of the related exam questions and essay assignment to the program coordinator, with the names of both instructor and student deleted. This process has no direct bearing on either the instructor or the student.

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Last updated May 22, 2006