Humanities 1110 with Richard Jewell - Inver Hills Community College

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1. HOW DO I KNOW I’M GETTING CREDIT FOR PAPERS AND ATTENDANCE?

FACE-TO-FACE SECTION ONLY: Simply look at the "Attendance" or "Weekly Papers" credit sheet when it is passed around in class.  I don't pass the "Weekly Papers" sheet around every time, so if you want to see it, just ask that it be passed around, and I'll be glad to do so.  You also can come up before or after class to see either or both sheets.  

FULLY-ONLINE SECTION ONLY: Go to the Web site each week or two and check the “Records.”  To do this, go to the course home page, find "FOL Records" (under "Homework" or in one of the the two long, thin brown rectangles), and click on it.  Then simply choose the weekly-papers records or the attendance records.  You should do this every week or two to make sure everything seems right to you.  If something seems to be missing or you seem to have only have half credit, see the questions below labeled "I have questions about virtual bulletin-board classes."  

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Yes.  I always try to return your homework to you with credit marked on it.  

FACE-TO-FACE SECTION: I usually return your homework during class.  If I don't, usually that means I don't have it done, yet.  If you come late and want to know whether I returned homework, just ask me after class so that you can collect it then.

FULLY-ONLINE SECTION: If you’ve emailed the homework, I’ll return it by email.  If you’ve dropped it off or mailed it, I’ll stick it in the workroom across from my office, B136, in a black metal-mesh file holder that says in big words on the front, “Pick up from Richard” and sits beside the big paper cutter on the counter.  If you’ve mailed it to me with a self-addressed, stamped envelope, I’ll return it in the envelope.  You need to pick up your papers once a week or so to see if you got credit for them (and if not, why not).  If you have homework with X's for credit on it, but you don’t have the credit on your record of weekly papers, then show me your homework again with the credit marked on it, and I’ll be more than happy to give you the credit due.

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3a. MOST BB QUESTIONS & ANSWERS are on the BB in "FAQs": Please go to this Web site's "Bull. Board" page and, in there, click on the link to the class BB (the link that starts with "http://groups.msn.com/...").  Once you're on the BB, look in its "FAQs" section (for the link, look in the left-hand column, near the top).  However, immediately below are some basic, starting FAQs about BB class.  

3b. HOW DO I GET TO THE CLASS BULLETIN BOARD AND START? 

Simply go back to the home page of this Web site.  Then look at the colored box in the lower-right corner that says "Bull. Boards."  Click on it.  If you are just starting, then please read the page.  Then, to get the bulletin board itself, simply click on the link near the beginning of the page. 

3c. HOW COME I CAN SEE THE BULLETIN BOARDS BUT I CAN'T WRITE A MESSAGE?  HOW DO I JOIN THE CLASS BB?

See the starting directions both in this Web site's "Bull. Board" page and on the bulletin board itself (see the top of the left-hand column for the directions on the BB).  Read those.  You'll find out that you can see the BB without being a member, but to write on the BB, you have to go through two joining processes.  The first is to join MSN and get an MSN "Passport Account."  (If you already have a hotmail or MSN.com account, then that is your "Passport Account.")  The second joining process is to become a member of the class bulletin board itself.  The directions on the "Bull. Board" page will tell you how.  Usually this information is covered during the first class of the semester.

3d. ARE BULLETIN BOARDS REQUIRED?

Yes.  They are part of your attendance grade.  To see more details about how bulletin-board classes fit into your attendance grade, go back to the home page of this Web site and click on the colored box that says "Attendance."

3e. HOW CAN I MAKE UP MISSED BULLETIN BOARDS?

You can still do them.  To find out how, go to your class bulletin board, find the left-hand column of links and weeks, and look for "FAQs" at the top of that column.  Then click on it, and look there.  You also can make up missed bulletin boards just as you could any missed class on campus--by doing attendance make ups.  To find out how to do attendance make ups, go back to the home page of this Web site, click on the "Attendance" colored box, and then click on "Make Ups."

3f. OTHER QUESTIONS are on the BB in "FAQs": As "3a." above says, for most questions about the BB, please go to this Web site's "Bull. Board" page and, in there, click on the link to the class BB (the link that starts with "http://groups.msn.com/...").  Once you're on the BB, look in its "FAQs" section (for the link, look in the left-hand column, near the top).

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Certainly!  You can call me at home 9 am to 7:00 pm (612-870-7024) or drop by my office at school during my office hours.  You also can drop off homework at my home, if necessary, or even meet me at a coffeehouse in my home area of Minneapolis (Loring Park/Uptown) when I won't be at school for several days.  For fuller information, click on "Contact Richard" in the boxes above.

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Yes and no.  Here's how:

The Photo & Info Sheet, both F2F and FOL courses: I'd like it as soon as possible, but I'm easy on this one--I'll take it any time and still give you credit.

Virtual Classes, Physical Classes, Class Visits to Exhibits/Plays--both F2F and FOL courses: A class miss is a class miss.  You can't do these late because your presence is needed to make them work.  However, there are multiple ways to make up class attendance misses: go to the "Syllabus" and click on "Makeup/Extra Credit."

FACE-TO-FACE COURSE only, Wed./Thurs. Homework, : 

Wed./Thurs. Homework: If you're taking this class on campus in the face-to-face course, then the homework is due by Wednesday if the last class day is Wed., or Thurs. if the last class day is Thursday--at the beginning of class (not during class).  There are almost no exceptions to this, unless you tell me ahead of time of an emergency.  This means you can turn it in to me in class on/by that day, or you can leave it  my office mailbox before I leave school on that day.  (If I've already left, you can ask my secretary to initial it and put a time on it on that day.  She leaves around 4:30 p.m.)  You also can email it to me before midnight.  

In addition, you can leave it at my condo (see "Contact Richard").  You're welcome to drop it off by 9 p.m. directly to me (in 410 Groveland), or see the 24-hour security guard in the next door building (400 Groveland) and ask him to write the time and remind him to give me a message that your work is in the front office.  

I'll allow a little more latitude in accepting homework the first few weeks if you honestly are confused about what is due when, explain why to me, and get it to me as quickly as possible.  [I also allow exceptions for an immediate emergency, like a car wreck driving to my house (which actually happened to one of my students once!).]  Otherwise, once the Wed./Thurs. homework is past these deadlines, it cannot be made up.

FULLY ONLINE COURSE only, Thurs. homework: 

If you're taking the fully online course, then homework is generally due by midnight Thursday.  I'll take it up to a week late, but no later!  (I'll allow even more latitude in the first few weeks if you honestly are confused about what is due when, explain why to me, and get it to me as quickly as possible.)  Once the Thurs. homework assignment is past these deadlines--and once I have already gone through the emailed homework and checked for it, it cannot be made up.  (I usually don't look at emailed homework until Fri. noon, often later, and will take whatever I find when I check for it.)

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You bet.  Here's how:  

FACE-TO-FACE SECTION: Homework is always due at the beginning of class on Wednesdays (for Mon.-Wed. day classes or Wed.night classes) or Thursdays (for Tues.-Thurs. day classes or Thurs. night classes).  Homework is entirely different from bulletin board (discussion board) postings.  Bulletin board postings are class attendance with classroom activities, not homework.  Homework assignments are explained in the "Homework" Web page and listed in the Schedule.

FULLY-ONLINE SECTION: Homework assignments are due on Thursday at midnight.  Homework is entirely different from bulletin board (discussion board) postings.  Bulletin board postings are class attendance with classroom activities, not homework.  Homework assignments are explained in the "Homework" Web page and listed in the Schedule, and they are due each Thursday midnight by email, mail (postmarked), or drop off (with a note from my secretary saying what day and time it was dropped off--please note I'm almost never at school on Thurs. and Fri.).  (However, for emailed homework, I will accept whatever I find when I do check my email for the homework.  I almost never check before Fri. noon, and sometimes a day later.)

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Nope (with one exception).  Almost always, "Practice Activities" should be done using sources outside/beyond your weekly textbook readings.  (On the other hand, if you’re reading Lamm for your textbook reading, you could, additionally, read something in Fiero for a "Practice Activity."  If you do this, just be sure to tell me that one is for "Comments" and the other for a "Practice Activity.")  Simply put, you can never kill two birds with one stone by doing both your textbook reading and your "Practice Activity" on the same chapter.

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FACE-TO-FACE SECTION: Nope--not if your coming to class regularly each week and you see me there.  I announce things of importance in class.  However, I do sometimes email important information, so if you're not getting any emails at all from me, you better ask whether I have made a class email list (a list with everyone's email address on it, used for emailing the whole class at the same time) and, if so, whether you are on it.

FULLY-ONLINE SECTION: Yes, you should be worried!  That is, you should be worried if you are in the totally online section.  I usually send out at least one email a week, sometimes more.  Be sure that you have given me a good mail address, that you check it each week, and that your email box isn’t getting so full that no new emails can come into it.  I send you email every week, normally, and some of it is vital information--absolutely necessary for the class.  If you are not getting email every week, check your account, and contact me quickly.

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Please use two Underlined Subtitles if there are two chapters, Three if there are three, and Four Subtitles if there are four chapters.  Write on each one in proportion to the length of the chapter as compared to the other chapters: in other words, the Lamm/Fiero chapters are longer than the EXPERIENCING chapters, so write more on the former than the latter.  However, be sure to write enough—and in a specific enough way—on each so that I can tell you did read it.          

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It is safer to go directly to the course Web site, if possible.  You can do this most easily by bookmarking.  If you have your own computer, you can click on "Bookmarks" (sometimes called "Favorites") when you are at the course Web site, then add the site.  (Directions about how to bookmark are on the course Web site: on the home page, click on "How To Use This Web Site.") 

 

However, if you use school computers, they won't keep bookmarks.  So, instead, you can simply write the course home page Web address down and stick it in your billfold for emergencies.  The easy way to get the Web address is to go to the course home page.  Then look for the Web address (it should say "umn.edu" at the end) in one of the little top windows, and write it down; or, you can copy and paste it onto an MS Word blank sheet and print out the sheet.  

You also can go directly to www.umn.edu/home/jewel001 in emergencies.

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Please click on and read "Talking as an Academic Community."  "Proper behavior" differs slightly from teacher to teacher.  What is common for all college classrooms is that you should be respectful of the instructor and each other, demonstrate a willingness to learn and to listen to competing viewpoints, and consider college an adult environment requiring adult behavior. 

In addition, in my classes, I like people to be helpful, kind, creative, and caring toward each other (and to me) because we work together quite a bit.  I also want people to feel they have the right to disagree respectfully with each other: this is a basic, important part of college life.  The right to disagree respectfully--and to speak our opinions in an atmosphere where we know others will respectfully listen to us--is of utmost importance for learning from each other and discovering a variety of viewpoints.  This is what college is about, and what being a citizen of the nation and the world: agreeing to respectfully disagree at times, so that we might learn and grow.  I ask that you do so in a kind, caring, creative, and supportive way with others in our class.

All of this means, too, that anger, whining, hurtfulness, spitefulness, and other negative emotions and acts are no more appropriate in college than in a professional workplace; acting on or using such negative behavior in or out of class to instructors, staff, or other students is very inappropriate and prevents a good atmosphere for good intellectual, personal, and academic growth.

Partying is a whole other issue.  There is nothing wrong at all with having a good time, and people in the first year or two of college in particular tend to work hard at having a good time.  This is fine, but in general, it is better to keep partying to the weekends and vacations.  Fifteen credits per semester of college, if you are working hard to do well, is the equivalent of a full-time, 40-50 hrs./wk. professional job, one in which you are expected to act as responsibly as would any manager or business owner.  It requires alertness, intelligence, and focus.   Excessive tiredness, hangovers, and others aftereffects of partying therefore are inappropriate, as well, which is why it helps to keep partying a weekend- and vacation-only event.  If you need to party, work hard during the week and reward yourself with partying after the weekly grind is over--and start grinding again Sunday afternoon.

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No, you may make them up (see "ATTENDANCE--Make ups and Extra Credit").  However, each one counts for a lot of attendance X's--usually 4-6 X's--and people have trouble making them up unless they actually attend them.  One way to make them up is to go to them (or an equivalent event, here or in another city) on a different night.

             

One problem about trying to make up the visits to the museums is that usually we have one to two tours by a tour guide, and you can't make this up unless you spend twice as much time (because it's not the same to just go look around on your own, without a tour guide).

                         

The school's Online Course Schedule (and the home page of our Web site) announced the expectation that you would need to have Thursday evenings free, and there are options for completing this part of the attendance even if you can't attend every Thursday night event.

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