1. HIST
Tuesday/Thursday 5:30 – 6:50 PM

2. Required materials

3. Your Grade is what you make it
Exams – 20% each
Mid terms -October 2 -November 6
Final – 25% -December 11, 5:30 PM
Book Tests – 10% each
Kupperman – October 16
Sheriff – December 6
Reader Tests – 5% each
September 13
October 25
November 29

4. How do I figure out my grade?
Reader Test 1 - 5% or 5 points
Reader Test 2 – 5% or 5points
Reader Test 3 – 5% or 5 points
Book test 1 – 10 points
Book test 2 – 10 points
Mid term 1 – 20 points 90+ points = A
Mid term 2 – 20 points points = B
Final exam – 25 points points = C
60-69 points = D
Total – 100 points Fewer than 60 = F

5. Make ups? In cases of dire, documented, emergencies
Not an emergency
Yes, this IS an emergency

6. Rules – very simple Take notes Note taking is not optional
Laptops/electronics use
Lecture based courses and why I am a professor and not a “teacher.”
No sleeping
Conversations to a minimum

7. Cell phone rules
Cell phones are to be turned off/to vibrate and put away in class.
If your phone goes off, you leave
If a second phone goes off, I leave, and we pick up in the next class wherever I would have concluded in the previous class
exceptions

8. General rules
No sleeping in class.
Conversations to a minimum.