Grading

Your overall course grade will be determined by your performance on quizzes, two presentations, an essay, a research paper, and a final exam.

Your grade for the course will be determined from the following:

Quizzes

We’ll have short, timed online quizzes to help gauge our relationship with the material in the readings most weeks. Quizzes cover the textbook reading plus primary sources. If you did the assigned readings, you should be prepared for the quiz.

Missed quizzes are not made up. If you miss a quiz, you’ll get a zero for that quiz. Therefore, please make sure you are prepared each week and take the quiz.

Presentations (2)

You’ll sign up for two presentations, one on one of the primary sources we’re exploring and one on one of the scholarly articles we’re reading this semester. Each presentation and present it to the class. A write-up is posted to BlackBoard afterwards. Details are on the Essays page.

Representations and Images Essay

You’ll write an interpretive essay: a response to your choice of nonwritten artistic depictions of gender concepts in the ancient world, including sculpture, painting, performance, or film, comparing the history that’s come down to us with how it has been represented. Details are on the Essays page.

Position Paper

You’ll write an essay discussing a turning point in Greek history of your choice, examining the source material, causes, and effects of the event or transformation and drawing your own conclusions about its meaning. We’ll talk about what’s expected. Details are on the Essays page.

Proposal. You will submit a proposal for the paper partway through the semester, so I can give you feedback on your plans.

Final Exam

The exam will be an in-class two-hour final exam. Details will be posted on the Exam page as the end of the semester approaches.