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) | 20% |
- 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 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.
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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.
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Interpretive Essay | 10% |
- A 3-to-4 page essay on Aristophanes’s Birds.
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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 Rome.
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Final | 25% |
- End-of-term in-class final exam.
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More Information
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