FYS 101B: The Internet and the Humanities

Class Participation

By design, enrollment in seminars is kept low to encourage class discussion and give students the chance to play a more active role in their education. Class participation will therefore count more heavily than any other single requirement for this course: 20% of your final grade will come from your participation in class. Here's what that means:

First of all, you have to participate. This doesn't mean verbal diarrhea, but it does mean more than merely showing up each day for class. I expect you to contribute regularly to the class discussion. More specifically, here are some of the things I look for in evaluating your performance:

1. Your raising interesting issues/questions for discussion. These issues/questions may come from your response to the assigned reading, or from current newspaper or magazine articles about the Internet, or something someone said about the Internet on TV, radio, or in a lecture.
2. Your offering informed, interesting responses to others' questions/issues
3. Evidence of your having read the assigned materials with care
4. Your attending special events identified in class as carrying "extra credit." One such event will be a talk on "Hot Topics in Computer Ethics" by Prof. Marsha Woodbury of the University of Illinois. Her talk will take place on Friday, April 11, at 1:00 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom Lounge. I realize that not eveyone will be able to attend, but those who do and who write up a brief account of her talk will receive "extra credit" toward the class participation grade.

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