Students may receive extra points by attending and writing reports about Social and Behavioral Sciences Lecture Series sessions, by attending SI sessions, and by attending relevant General Education sponsored film nights. Attendance of these sessions will likely improve your performance on exams. Further, you will receive up to three extra points for attending these sessions. Points awarded will be prorated according to your attendance at the available sessions. The professor will make qualitative assessments of your understanding on content, ability to communicate, and progress in developing analytical skill.
Quality is the most difficult concept to define.
The best thing you can do to achieve quality performance is to turn in work that you are proud of. Work about which you can say that you've done your absolute best. Some people are uncomfortable with the seeming vagary of intuitive qualitative assessments. So, listed below is my attempt to describe some, though certainly not all, of the characteristics of the type of performance expected at each grade level. Work is complete and exhibits sophisticated analysis.