History/Classics 205: Roman History
Summer 2020 (7 Week I)

John Bauschatz

Office: Cesar Chavez 410
Phone: (520) 621-7422 (office)
email: jbausch1@email.arizona.edu

OTHER (IMPORTANT!) COURSE POLICIES: READ CAREFULLY

• Course Content: Course readings will regularly contain brutally violent, sexually graphic and/or otherwise potentially offensive material. I assume that all students enrolled in HIST 205 are mature enough to handle such material and suggest that anyone easily offended by such material not take the course.

• Office Hours: I will be holding regular office hours via zoom during the summer term: M–Th, 1–2 p.m. I will send out meeting info via D2L. I am also easily reached via email (jbausch1@email.arizona.edu) or phone (520 621-7422). email is best. I will do my best to respond to any concerns you have within a few hours, and certainly within a day.

• Honors Contracts: Students wishing to earn Honors in HIST 205 must select their own topics for their short papers and have these topics pre-approved by the instructor. If you want to do an honors contract for HIST 205, please be in touch with the Honors College about the required steps to sign up.

• D2L: As mentioned above, students in HIST 205 will be expected to be familiar with D2L ("Desire2Learn"), the University's online course content management system. Our use of D2L in HIST 205 will be extensive: we will use D2L not only as a repository for course documents (additional readings, course handouts, etc.) and as a place to post grades, but also for discussions, quizzes, paper submission and email updates about the course. If you are unfamiliar with D2L, see the D2L help homepage.

• PLAGIARISM AND USING QUOTED/CITED MATERIAL: Plagiarism is the presentation of another person's work—or what is substantially another person's work—as one's own, and it is strictly forbidden in higher education. If you copy material from an outside source and paste it into a worksheet response, discussion or paper for CLAS/HIST 205, you have plagiarized. If you copy material from an outside source and paste it into a worksheet response, discussion or paper for CLAS/HIST 205, and then tweak the pasted material a bit, you have still plagiarized. Responses to questions on reading worksheets, discussion posts and short papers need to be in your own words. No credit is given for plagiarized material. Repeated instances of plagiarism may result in disciplinary acton at the university level. On a related note, it's worth mentioning my policy on using quotations from course materials. I'm fine with it! That said, quotations (which must be set off by quotation marks and have a page number citation) should only be used as supporting material for making your own points, and, maybe most importantly, material within quotation marks DOES NOT COUNT TOWARDS WORD COUNT TOTALS for reading worksheets and papers or in discussion posts. As noted above, word count totals are totals for your own words, not the words of another author.

• Grades: Grades will be entered on D2L within one week of the assignment due date, save for quiz grades, which are generated immediately. ***It is your responsibility to keep track of your grades over the course of the term. You have one week from the date of a posted grade to appeal it. After that, the assumption is that you have seen the grade and are OK with it.*** Grades for assignments turned in after posted due dates—and without documented excuses for the lateness—are only awarded at the discretion of the professor. At the very least, late assignments will lose one letter grade (= 10 points off of the overall grade for the assignment) for every day they are late. Assignments that are five or more days late will receive no grade.

• Paper Grading: The following rubric will be used to compile your grades on papers in HIST 204 (with thanks to Jennifer Kendall!):
  
  

  Category & Description	Max Points
  1.) Paper Mechanics 15 points: The essay adheres to all of the mechanical requirements (formatting, length, margins, proper citations and following any specific instructions for content in the paper assignment). 10 points: The essay has one or two mechanical errors. 5 points: The essay has numerous mechanical errors. 0 points: The essay has numerous mechanical errors and/or is less than the required length.	15
  B.) Grammar/Spelling/Composition 15 points: No / almost no spelling, grammar, punctuation or other compositional errors are present. The essay clearly appears to have been proofread and edited. 10 points: There are a few grammar, spelling, punctuation or other compositional errors but the essay appears to have been proofread and edited. 5 points: There are many grammar, spelling, punctuation or other compositional errors present. 0 points: Numerous errors make the essay difficult to read and/or excessively long quotations or paraphrases are used.	15
  C.) Content 70 points: The depth of analysis greatly exceeds expectations, details are many and organization is excellent. 55 points: The depth of analysis is good, as are details and organization, and minimum expectations are exceeded. 40 points: The essay is basic with an adequate analysis. 25 points: The essay is poor all around, but there is at least an attempt to follow directions. 10 points: The essay is poor all around, and there is little to no evidence that the author followed instructions. But at least he/she handed something in!	70
  Total Possible Points:	100

• Final Grades: For the final grade, the following breakdown will be used:
  
  

  A+ = 98–100	A = 93–97	A- = 90–92
  B+ = 88–89	B = 83–87	B- = 80–82
  C+ = 78–79	C = 73–77	C- = 70–72
  D+ = 68–69	D = 63–67	D- = 60–62
  F+ = 58–59	F = 53–57	F- = 0–52

  Final grades ending in .5 or higher will be rounded up; those ending in .49 or lower will be rounded down. ***There are NO exceptions to this policy.***

• If you would like help with your writing, the University’s Writing Skills Improvement Program (http://wsip.arizona.edu) may be a valuable resource. The Program offers professional individual tutoring in writing for students, as well as a number of different types of writing workshops. Register online and improve your prose!

VARIOUS UNIVERSITY POLICIES:

• Absence and Class Participation Policy: The UA’s policy concerning Class Attendance, Participation, and Administrative Drops is available at http://catalog.arizona.edu/2015-16/policies/classatten.htm. Absences for any sincerely held religious belief, observance or practice will be accommodated where reasonable: http://policy.arizona.edu/human-resources/religious-accommodation-policy. Absences preapproved by the UA Dean of Students (or dean’s designee) will be honored. See http://uhap.web.arizona.edu/policy/appointed-personnel/7.04.02.

• Accessibility and Accommodations: My goal in this classroom is that learning experiences be as accessible as possible. If you anticipate or experience physical or academic barriers based on disability, please let me know immediately so that we can discuss options. You are also welcome to contact the Disability Resource Center (520-621-3268) to establish reasonable accommodations. For additional information on the Disability Resource Center and reasonable accommodations, please visit http://drc.arizona.edu.

• Threatening Behavior Policy: The UA Threatening Behavior by Students Policy prohibits threats of physical harm to any member of the University community, including to oneself. See http://policy.arizona.edu/education-and-student-affairs/threatening-behavior-students.
  

• Code of Academic Integrity: Students are encouraged to share intellectual views and discuss freely the principles and applications of course materials. However, graded work/ exercises must be the product of independent effort unless otherwise instructed. Students are expected to adhere to the UA Code of Academic Integrity as described in the UA General Catalog: http://deanofstudents.arizona.edu/academic-integrity/students/academic-integrity.

• UA Nondiscrimination and Anti-harassment Policy: The University is committed to creating and maintaining an environment free of discrimination. See http://policy.arizona.edu/human-resources/nondiscrimination-and-anti-harassment-policy.

• Subject to Change Statement: Information contained in the course syllabus, other than the grade and absence policy, may be subject to change with advance notice, as deemed appropriate by the instructor.