{"id":4136,"date":"2017-01-16T17:32:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T22:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/history201news.voices-old.wooster.edu\/?page_id=4136"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:34:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:34:41","slug":"requirements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/history208.voices.wooster.edu\/?page_id=4136","title":{"rendered":"Requirements &amp; Grading"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>REQUIREMENTS<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Active (and informed) participation in class discussions<\/li>\n<li>Occasional in-class quizzes<\/li>\n<li>Two map quizzes (Europe before WW1, Europe after WW1)<\/li>\n<li>A small group presentation to the class on a historical monograph<\/li>\n<li>Short assignments to prepare for class discussion<\/li>\n<li>Five short research assignments that serve as the basis for the research paper (short proposal, review of a monograph, analysis of a primary source)<\/li>\n<li>A research paper on a topic of interest (10-12 pages)<\/li>\n<li>A presentation of your research paper in a class poster session<\/li>\n<li>Three short exams (30 mins)<\/li>\n<li>A comprehensive final examination<\/li>\n<li>Note: I\u2019ve prepared a series of reading quizzes and link to them on the schedule. These are intended to help you take away key points from the reading \u2013 and will not figure in your course grade<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>GRADING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your grade will measure your effort, the level of your work, as well as the progress you make across the semester. The following is offered as a rough guide. It assumes a good faith effort on all assignments.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>15% preparation, attendance, participation and professionalism (includes class presentations<\/li>\n<li>10% research assignments<\/li>\n<li>20% final research paper<\/li>\n<li>30% short exams<\/li>\n<li>20% final examination<\/li>\n<li>5% in class quizzes and map quizzes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other things that can have a significant impact on your grade: absences (more than one week or two absences), coming late, being a distraction to the class or the professor, and excellent or poor participation.<\/p>\n<p>I will grade quizzes on a check\/check plus\/check minus scale. A check indicates good work in all aspects of the assignment and equals 85%; a check plus indicates excellent work and equals 95%, and a check minus indicates work that is missing something important and equals 75%;\u00a0 sometimes I will give credit for a partial assignment with a check minus minus of 65%. Other assignments will be graded out of 100 points. I will keep the electronic grade book on Moodle so that students have access to a record of their grades.<\/p>\n<p>If you miss an in-class quiz because of a pre-arranged absence (or illness or other important reason), you can take a make-up quiz within a week. I\u2019ll drop the lowest grade for every 5 in-class quizzes.<\/p>\n<p>I follow the College of Wooster guidelines for grading. A grade in the \u201cA\u201d range indicates excellent work, the \u201cB\u201d range indicates good work, the \u201cC\u201d range indicates adequate work, the \u201cD\u201d range indicates a minimal performance. A grade of \u201cF\u201d indicates unsatisfactory work or the failure to complete all course work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REQUIREMENTS Active (and informed) participation in class discussions Occasional in-class quizzes Two map quizzes (Europe before WW1, Europe after WW1) A small group presentation to the class on a historical monograph Short assignments to prepare for class discussion Five short &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/history208.voices.wooster.edu\/?page_id=4136\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":4329,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4136","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/history208.voices.wooster.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/history208.voices.wooster.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/history208.voices.wooster.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history208.voices.wooster.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history208.voices.wooster.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4136"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/history208.voices.wooster.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6163,"href":"https:\/\/history208.voices.wooster.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4136\/revisions\/6163"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history208.voices.wooster.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/history208.voices.wooster.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}