Lectures, assignments and discussions will all be conducted in this online classroom. Research for students' essays will take place in this online library. In addition to registering for the course through Edmonds Community College, students need to follow the online directions to enroll in the course through Top Class and to use the access code purchased with the textbook by Jurmain, et al. to subscribe to the Infotrac library. Failure to take these two steps on one's own initiative during the first few days of class may seriously jeopardize students' likelihood for successful completion of the course. In addition to these key online environments, students will be expected to utilize browser search engines to find sites on the World Wide Web that will be utilized for critical analyses in writing assignments.
Students have five key responsibilities.
Read the course texts and conduct research in online reading materials according to the schedule outlined in the syllabus. All writing assignments, which will be graded individually and privately, must engage the reading material in breadth and depth, using paraphrases, quotations and citations as appropriate. I have designed this classroom to facilitate dialogue. Because all assignments will be shared with all other members of the class we must be particularly sensitive to issues of respect and integrity. Cheating and plagiarism will not be tolerated.