INDV 103 Syllabus

INDV 103
Spring Semester 2004
Sean Duffy

Discussion Groups: Sec. 23 McClelland Rm. 132 10 AM Friday
Sec. 28 ILC Rm. 145 12 PM Friday
Sec. 29 ILC Rm. 145 1 PM Friday

E-mail: seduffy@u.arizona.edu(Note, I do NOT accept file attachments)

Office hours: Monday 10-11 AM
Tuesday 2-3 PM
or by appt.
124A Social Sciences (TA office)

Written Messages: can be dropped in my box in the History Main Office in
Social Sciences 217

Goals: The discussion section exists to help you work on skills that will prove useful during your college years and thereafter. Therefore we will work together to improve verbal and written communication skills as well as critical thinking and analytical competence. We will focus on generating ideas, and looking at a familiar topic (history) in new ways. In addition, together we will work on improving your writing skills.

Important Dates:
Jan. 23/24 1st paper topics and guidelines distributed
Feb. 13 1st paper due in section

Feb. 18 1st midterm
March 19 Spring Break Yeah!!!
March 31 2nd midterm exam
April 7 2nd paper topics and guidelines distributed
April 23 2nd paper due in section
May 12 Final Exam 8-10 AM

Section Ground Rules:
Respect for one another and for new ideas
Be prepared for and participate in class activities
Any disruptive behavior is NOT acceptable and NOT
welcome (food, gum, cell phones, reading the Wildcat, the shuffle)

Note on discussion
and assignments: You are expected to have completed the assigned readings before class meets. Participation is based on your willingness or ability to interact with your fellow students in our (almost) daily discussion activities. In-class activities will be both verbal and written. Your interaction with your fellow students during in-class group assignments is as critical as answering questions in open discussion. There will also be an online discussion component that will be explained in greater detail in week two.

Late Work: Late work will not be accepted without penalty. For each day (Mon-Fri) that the assignment is late, you will be penalized a full letter grade on that assignment, (i.e a B would drop to a C).

Attendance Policy: You have four free absences for the semester. You will be dropped after the 4th absence.

DRC: Students who require accommodations to participate fully in this course should register with the Disability Resource Center and contact me as soon as possible to discuss access issues. Information about the DRC can be found at www.drc.arizona.edu.

Academic Integrity: Plagiarism is against the University of Arizona code of Academic Integrity. Every semester I have taught thus far, students have tried to turn in plagiarized work and every semester I have caught and penalized students for this offense. So you are warned in advance, I do take plagiarism seriously. And you will be reported to the Dean of Students.

“History is power”
James W. Loewen (Lies Across America)

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
George Orwell (1984)

“What the Orwell quote means to me is a very important observation that if you can control history, what people know about it, if you can decide what’s in people’s history, and what’s left out, you can order their thinking. You can order their values. You can in effect organize their brains by controlling their knowledge. The people who can do that, who can control the past are the people who control the present. The people who would dominate the media, who publish the textbooks, who decide in our culture what are the dominant ideas, what gets told and what doesn’t.”
Howard Zinn (The Future of History)