Course Guide:
Winter 2009
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 January 9th send me rfcasad@msn.com an email and I will put it in the class folder 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 assignment
no later than three days after the due date (usually sooner).
Weeks 1-3
(smith1.rtf) homework due by January 26th (Monday). (Read syllabus regarding
late assignments.)
Weeks 4-6(smith2.rtf) homework due by February 17th (Tuesday).
Weeks 7-9 (smith3.rtf) homework due by March 9th (Monday).
Week 10 (smith4.rtf) homework due by March 16th (Monday).
Week 11 (smith5.rtf) Self and Site Assessment in by March 18 (Wednesday).
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).