If you are healthy, attendance is mandatory. If you miss more than two classes
without a dean's excuse you will fail this course.
If you are ill, go to the health center, get some medicine and a dean's
excuse (i.e., do not bring your wretched virus into my classroom).
If you suffer a personal or family misfortune that requires your immediate
attention - Athens has waited for you for 2,500 years, it will wait a few
days more. Take care of business, talk to the dean, and talk to me.
Examples of personal excuses for which I willingly grant attendance waivers:
death and hospitalization.
Examples of personal excuses for which I refuse attendance waivers: hangovers
and homework or exams in some other course.
If you have a 100% attendance record you will receive 2.5 bonus points in
your final grade (i.e., if your final grade is 87 ["B"] you will
receive an 89 ["B+"].
Papers
Your will write two five page essays in this course. Do
a word count on your final draft. It must be longer than 1450 words and
shorter than 1700 words (excluding bibliography).
The first essay is due in my office (PGill 208) by 4:00 pm Friday, October
4th, 2002. [Do not email me your papers].
In this essay you should discuss the way Athenians imagined the relationship
between litigation and democracy. You may refer to any of the readings
we have done in class. You do not need to do outside reading and/or research
for this paper.
The second essay is due in my office (PGill 208) by 4:00 pm Friday, November
22th, 2002. [Do not email me your papers].
You will choose and analyze one Athenian forensic oration.[This means
you may not work on the trial of Socrates]. In the case of an oration
that is linked to other orations that exist in the corpus, it is appropriate
and necessary to read and consider these orations as well. Your analysis
should explain the historical context of the speech explain the substantive
and procedural issues of the speech consider how speech can be explained
in terms of one of the theoretical models of Athenian litigation we are
studying in class. Alternatively, use the speech to critique one of these
models.
You should review my standards for
paper content and form before you hand in
your papers.
I love reading drafts and talking about outlines witth students before they
hand in their final papers. Please come visit me during office hours to talk
about your papers
Article Reports
You will read and give one report on an article about
topics in the course.
Your article report will be evaluated based on the standards described on
the article reports page.
In conjunction with your article report, you will prepare an annotation
of the article you read. Your annotation will be judged based on the standards
described on the annotation assignment
page.
Exams
You will take a one-hour, in class, midterm on Tuesday of the seventh week
of classes ( Tuesday 10/15/02) at 2:40
pm in Pgill G54.
You will take a two-hour, in class, final on Wednesday of finals week (Wednesday,
12/ 11/02) at 1:15 PM in PGILL G54
You must take these exams on the dates set. No alternative dates will be
offered for the exams for any reason (other than hospitalization of yourself
or a member of your immediate family).
Each exam will consist of essay questions and identifications. I will post
a list of terms, persons, concepts and events from which I will draw the exam
questions at least one week before each exam.
You may study for these exams in groups (in fact, I strongly encourage you
to do so).
Class Participation
You must participate regularly in this class to do well. Failure to participate
regularly can result in a loss of up to 15 points on your final grade (i.e.,
a student who is receiving 100s on all their written assignments will receive
a "B" for the course).
Participation means
reading all the assignments
considering all the study guide questions
preparing a list of questions on material you didn't understand
sharing your ideas about what you have read in class
responding to the ideas of others (especially ideas with which you disagree)
with respect.
Reading Quizzes
You will have 4 brief quizzes on the assigned reading throughout the course.
The sole purpose of these quizzes is to give you an incentive to stay on top
of your reading assignments. If you stay current on the reading you will think
of these quizzes as free points. If you do not, you will come to think differently
about the quizzes.
Extra-Credit
You may give do a second article report and annotation as extra-credit. You
may earn up to 5 additional points for your final grade by doing so.