Course Guide: Fall
2010
Humanities 100: Creative and Critical Thinking
Follow the links through the course. If you get lost, come back to the course guide (bookmark/favorites this page). Read through the notes and review the notes weekly, and especially before every assignment is due. Use the schedule below to keep up with the reading and writing assignments.
Make Contact
By September 24th send me rfcasad@msn.com an email and I will check you in and reply. Send an initial email even if you are late registering or finding the website. Follow standard email conventions. Put Humanities 100 in the subject line of the email. Use a salutation (Hi Dr. Casad), write a short message (e.g., I can navigate the site. I have begun working on the assignments for the first week. Each week has three sections--a response to the reading assignment, a writing task, and a relevant quote from resources. I do not have any questions for the class at this time. I look forward to writing in my journal and to your response to this email), and finish with a complimentary close (Regards, Jane Smith). A salutation, short message, and close are required on all your emails (as is Humanities 100 in the subject line).
Assignment Schedule
I will respond to your homework
no later than three days after the due date (usually sooner).
Weeks 1-3
(smith1.rtf) homework due by October 11th (Monday) . (Read syllabus
regarding grading.)
Weeks 4-6(smith2.rtf) homework due by November 1st (Monday).
Weeks 7-9 (smith3.rtf) homework due by November
22nd (Monday).
Week 10 (smith4.rtf) homework due by December 1st (Wednesday).
Week 11 (smith5.rtf) Self and Site Assessment in by December 6th
(Monday).
All correspondence complete by December 8th.
Assignments
(Click on and review all links.)
Grade Scale: Over the course of the quarter, you can accumulate 104 points if you do the extra credit. The points will produce a decimal grade like this: 104-97(4.0), 96(3.9), 95(3.8), 94(3.7), 93(3.6), 92(3.5),91(3.4), 90(3.3), 89(3.2), 88(3.1), 87(3.0), 86(2.9) ...57(0.0).