Grading
Your grade for this class consists of 3 components:
Attendance/Participation 30%
Blogposts (+ comments) 35%
Final Project 35% (10% presentation + 25% finished draft)
Attendance and Participation
Attendance and participation are both expected and are factored into your grade. If you have to be absent please let me know via email before the class. Accruing more than 4 absences may result in failing the class. Observing religious holidays doesn’t count as an absence (please let me know in advance that you will be observing a holiday, in accordance with the university policy). Please don’t be late. If you are late for the writing exercise please come up to me after the class. |
Blogposts and Comments
The course is organized around three larger themes: “Ideas and Rights,” Bodies and Representations,” and “Power and Protest.” For every larger theme, you will be writing a blogpost (500 words) synthesizing ideas from the reading and discussion and developing them further. There is a total of 3 blogposts each worth 30 points. To get maximum points your blogpost has to:
1. Reference BOTH the readings for the block and the discussion
2. Develop the points coming from the reading and discussion further (summary is not enough)
3. Use at least one example (passage, image or video) and offer its close analysis in the form of an annotation
4. Be submitted by 5 pm on specified weeks' Fridays. Late submission will lead to lost points.
In addition to a blogpost you are expected to write one comment on a blogpost of your peer each round (for 10 more points total). These comments may engage with the ideas you thought were interesting in the post, provide more examples, ask questions.
The Final Project
In your final paper (7-8 pages), you can build on the ideas from a blogpost that you made over the course of the semester (but it cannot be just a combination of your blogposts). You can choose your topic in consultation with the instructor, or respond to a prompt (additional instructions will be provided later in class). You should be ready to present on your topic by the final week of class. Late work will be graded down by 1/2 of a letter grade every 24 hours.
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