Assignments:

Like any 400 level Arts & Humanities course, the majority of your time over the next six weeks will be spent reading, discussing, and writing. The only difference will be that all of these activities will be taking place on, or through, the Internet. Discussion will take place over e-mail or in our class chatroom. Response papers will be turned in by mounting them to the Web.

You will turn in each assignment by creating a link from your amst418p home page to the assignment by the dates and times listed below. When the assignments are due I will go through each page and copy them into a temporary file which I will then grade over the next week. Late assignments will be penalized one whole letter grade (e.g. from B to C) for any portion of each 24 hour period they are late. If you turn an assignment in late, it is your responsibility to e-mail me when it is complete. Until I receive an e-mail telling me when a late assignment has been posted, I will continue to assess late penalties.

Plagiarism is an especially important issue when dealing with electronic publication and will not be tolerated. If you are in doubt about what constitutes plagiarism or any other form of academic dishonesty, please consult your instructor, the undergraduate handbook, or the Office of Judicial Programs (301-314-8204). Even a single instance of academic dishonesty may result in a grade of XF in the course.

Finally, the course will not be graded on a curve; each participant and product will be judged against what it could ideally have been. If all work by all individuals are excellent examples of their kind, every student will earn and be awarded an A. Likewise, if all work by all individuals are mediocre examples of their kind, every student will earn and be awarded a C.

 

DUE DATE	BRIEF DESCRIPTION & LINK TO ASSIGNMENT	GRADE WEIGHT
June 1 In Class	Checklist of Skills	n/a
Fri. June 11 10 p.m.	2100 - 2400 word essay discussing hypertext, publication, and academic argument	20%
Fri. June 18 10 p.m.	2100 - 2400 word essay which discusses history on the Web through a review of a public history Web site	20%
Mon. June 28 10 pm	2100 - 2400 word essay discussing Web publication and the public sphere, privacy, access, and techno-democracy	20%
Fri. July 9 10 pm	2100 - 2400 word essay discussing virtual exhibition through a review of an online exhibit	20%
All semester	Class participation in Web chats	20%

For more information contact Debra DeRuyver: dd131@umail.umd.edu, 301.305.0788
Department of American Studies, 2125 Taliaferro Hall, University of Maryland, College Park MD 20740
Last Updated May 28, 1999