COMP LIT 65/MATH 5

COURSE INFORMATION

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Texts: The books for the course are: A Matter of Time, draft manuscript by Lahr and Pastor, One Hundred years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, and a Course Reader. All are available at Wheelock Books.

Instructors:

We both encourage you to contact us by e-mail for purposes of asking questions, making comments, or setting up meetings.

Teaching Assistant: Andrew J. Victor

Tutors: Amanda R. Matthews, Vivian R. Mills, Kathryn A. Ritcheske

General organization:

The class will meet three days a week. Two of these meetings will follow a lecture format, for the most part alternating between instructors. The Friday session will usually combine joint presentations by the instructors and open student discussion. If you would like to suggest a question or topic for the Friday Discussion, you should post it on the course website (see address below) by early Thursday morning. The topics to be addressed during the Friday Discussion will be posted on the website by Thursday afternoon. All students should review the topics for the Friday Discussion before coming to class.

Course Website:

The address of the Comp Lit 65/Math 5, Winter 2001 - A Matter of Time website is http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~m5w01/. We will use it as an integral part of the course, so you definitely should check it out right away and add it to your bookmarks.

In addition to completing all reading assignments by the due-date, students will be expected to participate actively in class discussions, especially the Friday Discussions. There also will be four take-home writing assignments. In weeks three and seven, a two-page, double-spaced, paper will be due addressing one of the questions/topics of a previous Friday Discussion. Furthermore, there will be a mid-term examination, and a final paper. The questions for the mid-term will be handed out the week before, and the written responses, limited to five double-spaced pages, will be collected on Monday. The final will be a seven-ten page double-spaced paper due on the first day of final examinations. The two two-page written assignments will account for 30% (15% each) of the final grade; the Mid-term will be 30% of the final grade; and the final paper 40%.

The TA and tutors will be organizing a number of discussion sessions on Thursdays during the x-hour. The purpose of these sessions is to discuss course material and to provide a forum in which students can talk in smaller groups. They will occur in weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, and 9. Note that this schedule will give ample opportunity to brainstorm about the written assignments that are due in weeks 3, 5, 7, and 10.

You should not hesitate to contact either one of your instructors about issues related to the course. You can send e-mail messages to us, make appointments, or drop into our scheduled office hours.

On written assignments, including exams: Feel free to brainstorm with fellow students, the TA and tutors, or your instructors. However, when it comes to writing up your responses or your papers, you must do so by yourself without outside assistance and in your own words. In this regard, it is a violation of the Honor Principle to share electronic files or notes, or to participate in editing a joint document. You must produce by yourself all work written for submission, and there should be no doubt that this is what we expect.

We encourage students with documented disabilities, including "invisible" disabilities such as chronic diseases, learning disabilities, and psychiatric disabilities, to discuss possible accommodations with your instructor. Students might want to consult as well the Student Disabilities Coordinator, Nancy Pompian, at extension 6-2014, in the Academic Skills Center. In addition to providing information and services, the Center is in charge of registering disabilities and approving accommodations.