Written work and classroom discourse should be clear and concise. Except with prior approval or under exceptional circumstances, late papers will not be accepted. Papers more than two weeks late will not be accepted. Substantive class participation is expected during each class meeting. The student is responsible for obtaining information and materials missed because of her or his absence.
Attendance is required at every class meeting.
Learners are expected to attend each class meeting and to be prepared for each day's activities, and especially to discuss readings and presentations due on due dates. Additional coaching on each of the following assignments will be provided throughout the semester. In 1856 when the University of Iowa opened and admitted females on equal terms with males, Gustave Flaubert published the controversial and widely censored Madame Bovary, and Sigmund Freud was born. The efforts of progressive educators to extend educational opportunity during the last quarter of the 19 th century corresponded with the ideas in the novels and stories of Mark Twain concerning human potential and social justice. Archeology, is the scientific study of the remains of the past, is a potent metaphor for excavations of a more subjective nature.