It is important that your personal schedule permit you to regularly arrive on time and stay the full time. Such behavior not only hinders your own learning but prejudices that of fellow students. If that occurs quietly asks those responsible for the distractions to stop. If that fails to resolve the problem, plesae let me know. Every student has the right to learn as well as the responsibility not to deprive others of their right to learn.
Every student is accountable for their actions.
While this is a survey and assumes that you know little if anything about Latin America it will require your active involvment in the learning process. This is a history course and as such is not intended to reward passive memorization of text materials or class lectures. Despite the class size and the survey nature of this course, the material covered will be examined within the context of an active, learning community environment. There will be no multiple-guess exams. All evaluations will be narrative in form and the exams, in particular, are designed to foster integrated learning.