I expect each student to take their work seriously and conduct themselves in a professional and collegial way toward others. Reading the texts in this course means not only understanding them in the thorough way that every upper-division course requires but also actively engaging and reflecting on them in a seminar style, that is, being ready to discuss implications after reading, apply them to your own experience in this discipline, question them, and be able to use them in forming your own projects. Late work will NOT be accepted unless under dire emergency situations. Because the process of this seminar and the collaborative nature of the work, you will receive a zero on any work not submitted on time. Presentations may not be made up because again unlike other upper-division literature courses, the cycle of assignments in this course is very carefully choreographed in order to make the production of the anthology possible.
Deadlines therefore are firm.
Although I normally do not establish attendance policies stipulating a maximum number of absences, you need to know that this kind of rigorous, pre-professional course absolutely requires attendance at all meetings. There is no excuse for missing other than serious illness or emergency. In fact, missing two or more class periods will have major consequences on your participation grade, which is a substantial part of your evaluation. The seminar paper is the primary demonstration of your achievement in this course. Conception of a project, drafting, researching, and editing will be taken much more seriously than in any other course.