Ancient Greece

 

Grading

Your overall course grade will come from a combination of weekly reading responses, written essays, and in-class exams.

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

Attendance, Responses, and Quizzes (ARQ)

15%

  • Each week there will be a short, 5-minute in-class quiz based on the assigned readings and a required online post in response to one a primary source.
  • In-class quizzes take place at the start of our class meetings and are not made up, so it is important to arrive on time and prepared.
 

Essay on Clouds

10%

  • 3-to-4 page essay on Aristophanes’s Clouds.
 

Position Paper

25%

  • 6-to-8 page term paper using evidence from primary and secondary sources to take a position on a research topic of your choice relating to ancient Greece.
 

Presentation and Write-Up on a Primary Source (2)

20%

  • In-class presentation on two of the assigned primary sources (one in the first half of the semester, and one in the second).
  • A written version is due a week after your presentation.
 

Final Exam

30%

  • End-of-term in-class final exam.