Requirements & Grading

REQUIREMENTS

  • Attendance and active participation
  • Weekly film & history worksheets (to prepare) – answer important questions about the film
  • Weekly five-minute quizzes (in class) – on readings, films, lecture, and discussion
  • Group meeting and presentation – scene analysis
  • Group project and presentation – scene recreation
  • One short formal paper (4-6 pp.)
  • Three short exams (30 mins)
  • A comprehensive final examination (2 hours)

GRADING

Your grade will measure your effort, the level of your work, as well as the progress you make across the semester. The following is offered as a rough guide. It assumes a good faith effort on all assignments.

  • 20% Participation and Engagement (attendance, participation, in-class quizzes, group assignments)
  • 20% Paper
  • 30% Short Exams
  • 30% Final Examination

Other things that can have a significant impact on your grade: absences (more than one week or two absences), coming late, being a distraction to the class or the professor, and excellent or poor participation.

I will grade quizzes on a check/check plus/check minus scale. A check indicates good work in all aspects of the assignment and equals 85%; a check plus indicates excellent work and equals 95%, and a check minus indicates work that is missing something important and equals 75%;  sometimes I will give credit for a partial assignment with a check minus minus of 65%. Other assignments will be graded out of 100 points. I will keep the electronic grade book on Moodle so that students have access to a record of their grades.

If you miss an in-class quiz because of a pre-arranged absence (or illness or other important reason), you can take a make-up quiz within a week. I’ll drop the lowest grade for every 5 in-class quizzes.

I follow the College of Wooster guidelines for grading. A grade in the “A” range indicates excellent work, the “B” range indicates good work, the “C” range indicates adequate work, the “D” range indicates a minimal performance. A grade of “F” indicates unsatisfactory work or the failure to complete all course work.