Weighting of assignments

Class participation and attendance: 10%
Four tests: 80% (20% each)
Two quizzes: 10% (5% each)

 

Class Participation

Class participation and attendance makes up 10% of your grade. It is measured by your comments in lectures and class discussions (up to 5 points towards the final grade) and by attendance at lectures and videos (up to 5 points towards your final grade, 1/3 of a point per lecture/video).

 

Tests

There will be four tests, each of which will take about 30 minutes to complete, during class time. Each test will include 10 multiple choice questions (5 minutes), identification questions (answer 3 of 5, 15 minutes), and a short answer question (answer 1 of 2, 10 minutes). The multiple choice questions may test your knowledge of material from lectures, videos, or the reading.

The short answer questions will ask you to explain a concept important to the history of the time period covered in the test in about three paragraphs, using specific examples and evidence to support your answer. Note that short answer questions may ask about images from the lecture slides. Please bring a blue book for each test.

If you miss a test and can present a valid written excuse, you may make up the credit within two weeks of the original test date by submitting a make-up assignment in which you answer all 5 of the IDs and both of the 2 short answer questions given on the in-class test, giving one full paragraph for each of the five identification questions and three full paragraphs for each of the two short answer questions.

 

Terms for identification

Test 1

  1. Neolithic
  2. Akkad
  3. Philistines
  4. Hesiod
  5. Yahweh
  6. ma'at
  7. Peloponnesian War
  8. covenant
  9. Parthenon
  10. cuneiform

Test 2

  1. Achaemenid
  2. Hellenistic kingdoms
  3. Alexandria
  4. mos maiorum
  5. Punic Wars
  6. Augustus
  7. Pax Romana
  8. Antonine Age
  9. messiah
  10. Jewish Wars

Test 3

  1. Diocletian
  2. Constantine
  3. Saint Anthony
  4. Huns
  5. Hagia Sophia
  6. vassal
  7. Muhammad
  8. caliph
  9. Charlemagne
  10. Vikings

Test 4

  1. Commercial Revolution
  2. vassal
  3. flying buttress
  4. Scholasticism
  5. Investiture Controversy
  6. Pope Urban II
  7. Magna Carta
  8. Black Death
  9. Cosimo de Medici
  10. Niccolo Macchiavelli

 

Instructions for identification questions

For the identification questions, you will be given 5 terms from the list of 10 for that unit of the course, and must identify three of them, based on all the information relevant to that term presented in lectures, reading, and videos. Do not look the terms up on the internet, as much of the information you will find may be wrong or irrelevant. For each identification question, you will be asked to write a full paragraph that answers the questions, "When? Where? What? Who?", and shows that you understand what this person, place, thing or concept is, how it is different from other, similar items, and above all, why it is significant for understanding the period covered for the test. You do not need to give precise dates, but you must give at least an approximate date that places the term in chronological context. You must also place each term in geographical context.

 

Quizzes

You will be quizzed on each primary source reading at the beginning of the class when it is discussed. If you miss a quiz and can present a valid written excuse, you may make up the credit within two weeks of the original quiz date by submitting a make-up assignment consisting of three pages answering the study questions for that class's discussion, based on the assigned reading.

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