Grading

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

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

Attendance, Responses, and Quizzes

20%

Each week there will be
  • 5%attendance taken at class meetings,
  • 5%a required online post in response to a primary source, and
  • 10%a short, 5-minute in-class quiz.
    • Quizzes are based on the assigned readings.
    • Note: 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.
 

Presentations

15%

You’ll give two in-class presentations on one of the assigned primary sources:
  • 7½%one in the first half of the semester, and
  • 7½%one in the second half of the semnester.

A written version is due a week after your presentation.

 

Written Assignments

35%

There will be
  • 10%a 3-to-4 page essay on images of the ancient world, and
  • 25%a 6-to-8 page term paper using evidence to take a position on a research topic of your choice relating to gender in the ancient world.
 

Exam

30%

  • For this course there will be an end-of-term in-class final exam.
 

More Information

See the following pages for more information on these assignments.