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Grading page updated
29 December 2025
The grading page has been updated with all papers I have received and a provisional grade for the course. If there is an assignment or revision you’re sure you submitted but that isn’t reflected on the grading page, please contact me immediately.
Official grades will be posted to CUNYfirst on Monday night (December 29).
I hope you have a safe and happy winter break and that you enjoy success in your next endeavors.
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Final Exam grades posted
23 December 2025
The grades and markups for the Final Exam are posted on the My Grades page on the course website.
Remember, the “Grade so far” calculation is provisional. If you have any missing assignments or reversible deductions, please submit them to Brightspace as soon as possible to bring about the highest possible course grade. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to seek me out by email.
Position Paper grades and markups posted
21 December 2025
The grades and markups for the Position Paper are posted on the My Grades page on the course website.
If you have any questions about the grades, comments, or deductions, please don’t hesitate to seek me out by email or in office hours.
Reversible deductions. Some of you may find that you received “reversible deductions” for issues relating to formatting and citations. The good news is, those are points that you can get back. Check the cover page of your markup to see if there are any check marks and points taken off next to the reversible deductions. If there are, I made notes on the cover sheet or in the essay about the issue, and included a handout with the requirements.
Please resubmit your essay to Brightspace with those problems fixed, and I’ll be in a position to reverse those deductions. Only reversible deductions can be reversed, so don’t resubmit for anything other than reversible deductions.
Missing essays. If you have not gotten your paper in, please do so as soon as you can. In terms of your course grade you’re better off with any grade, even with a lateness penalty, than a zero for the assignment. Remember also that the lateness penalty is capped at a maximum of 30 points, so turning your paper in, even very late, is better than not doing so.
Ultimate Deadline for Late Papers and Resubmissions
14 December 2025
As a reminder, the absolute deadline for all late papers and reversible deduction resubmissions is Sunday, December 28.
No papers or resubmissions will be accepted after that date. The only exception is if an incomplete has been mutually agreed prior to that deadline owing to documented emergency circumstances.
Please make sure to submit any late papers if at all possible. The lateness penalty is capped at 30 points, so you’re better off submitting even a very late paper than getting a zero. The points back for correcting reversible deductions can also make a difference.
Email me with any questions or updates.
Good luck on the exam!
14 December 2025
The final exam will be held in-person on Tuesday, December 16 from 6:15 to 8:15 p.m. in our normal meeting room.
Please arrive on time. You will only have the two-hour exam period to take the exam.
Exam review sheet and other review materials are posted on the Exams page. Email me with any questions.
Welcome to Week 14!
7 December 2025
This week we’re sort of putting the Greek and Roman worlds in perspective, looking at how the Hellenistic world, which the Romans absorbed, looked at gender and the responsibilities people had as men and women toward the strength and persistence of their society.
Things to ponder as you explore the materials. What essential ideas stand out to you about the complementary roles of men and women in the Hellenistic world? How much of that carried over to the Greco-Roman world that came after?
Also this week you’re completing your position papers. What did you learn from your research and analysis that you’d like to share with the rest of us? How has your perspective on gender in the ancient world changed or been reaffirmed as you explored your topic?
Looking forward to an interesting discussion. Please make sure to attend and help bring our semester’s worth of explorations and insights together into focus. See you Tuesday!
Exam Review Sheet posted
1 December 2025
I’ve updated the final exam page. On this page you’ll find information about the final and some review materials. The exam will take place Tuesday, December 16 from 6:15 to 8:15 p.m.
The review sheet is not designed to be a list of answers so much as questions you can use to guide you toward the areas you want to focus on in your review. As you read through the questions on the review sheet, those you have a sense of how you might answer are lower priority for review than those questions you’re not sure how you would answer; those you’d then want to go back and spend some time reviewing in your notes, the readings, the videos, quiz notes, and class discussions.
Also note that the terms are a useful way of finding concepts you need to go back and review, so I’d advise stepping through the terms at the end of each topic and making sure you have a sense of what they mean and why we’re studying them.
To prepare for the essays, I suggest that you focus on what you would consider to be four or five of the major themes of this course, and think about possible questions that relate to those topics across the periods and transitions we’ve explored. For each essay you’ll be asked to give three examples, so you can sketch out a question about a recurring topic in the course, your perspective on that question, and three similar or contrasting examples that demonstrate that perspective.
Please take a look at the review sheet for details on the exam’s content and structure. Once you’ve read through the review sheet, if you have any questions about the exam or about any of the topics covered in it, please don’t hesitate to come to me or bring them up in class.
To get to the final exam page, click on “Exams” in the navigation index.