For your convenience in planning your research project, I have provided a list of presidential administrations and a list of suggested topics . We assume that all graduate students are aware of the following facts of life, but I include these reminders so as to leave no doubt. Similarly, a serious graduate student does not arrive late or leave early. Assignments and presentations are due when they are due. Graduate students are presumed to aspire to professional status, and are expected to show a commensurate degree of professional responsibility.
Considerable value is placed on the timely and proper completion of assigned tasks.
Substantial grade penalties may result from missed deadlines, regardless of reason. Written assignments which do not meet these standards will be returned unread. Examinations of the traditional sort are ordinarily not part of the seminar experience.