ANTH 383: History of Anthropology Fall 2016

Monday Wednesday 2:20-3:50 PM Asbury Hall 007

Dr. Lydia Wilson Marshall Office: Asbury Hall 118 Email: [email protected] Phone: 765-658-4508 Office Hours: 2:00-3:30 PM Tuesday, 2:00-3:00 PM Friday, and by appointment.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

A survey history of the central theoretical perspectives, questions and data of sociocultural anthropology. Focusing on significant scholars and case studies, the course explores the development of different ways that anthropologists have formulated and understood fundamental questions concerning human society, culture, change and universals.

COURSE TEXTBOOKS

Moberg, Mark 2013 Engaging Anthropological Theory: A Social and Political History. New York: Routledge.

Moore, Jerry D. 2012 Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists. 4th edition. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

All other assigned readings will be posted as pdfs on Moodle or placed on reserve in the library.

SUMMARY OF ASSIGNMENT DUE DATES AND TESTS

Note: Your reading logs will be collected periodically (5 to 8 times) throughout the semester through Moodle dropbox. The dates they will be collected are not announced in advance.

9/22: Take-home exam #1 due by 4 PM via Moodle (note: not a class day) 11/1: Take-home exam #2 due by 4 PM via Moodle (note: not a class day) 2

12/5: Student presentations of contemporary articles. 12/7: Student presentations of contemporary articles, continued. 12/7: Contemporary article exegesis due in class. 12/16: Take-home exam #3 due by 4 PM via Moodle

CLASS SCHEDULE AND READINGS

Wednesday, 8/24: Pre-Anthropological Views of Human Diversity

Monday, 8/29: What is Theory and Why Do Anthropologists Need It? Moberg, Mark. 2013. “Of Politics and Paradigms.” In Engaging Anthropological Theory: A Social and Political History, 1-23. New York: Routledge.

Wednesday, 8/31: Cultural Evolutionary Theory Focus on Lewis Henry Morgan Moberg, Mark. 2013. “Spencer, Darwin, and an Evolutionary Parable for Our Time” (excerpt). In Engaging Anthropological Theory: A Social and Political History, 106-114. New York: Routledge. Moore, Jerry D. 2012. “Founders” and “Lewis Henry Morgan: The Evolution of Society.” In Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, 4th ed., 1-4 and 17-29. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. Morgan, Lewis Henry. 1878. “Ethnical Periods.” In Ancient Society, 3-18. New York: Henry Holt. Sidky, Homayun. 2004. “Lewis Henry Morgan and the Evolution of Society.” In Perspectives on Culture: A Critical Introduction to Theory in Cultural Anthropology, 60-81. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Wednesday, 8/31 – Last day of adjustment period

Monday, 9/5: Marxism Focus on Karl Marx Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. [1848] 2008. “Bourgeois and Proletarians.” In The Communist Manifesto, 33-51. London: Pluto Press. Moberg, Mark. 2013. “Marx.” In Engaging Anthropological Theory: A Social and Political History, 68-86. New York: Routledge.

Wednesday, 9/7: Historical Particularlism Focus on Franz Boas Boas, Franz. 1940. “Race and Progress” (excerpt). In Race, Language and Culture, 3-8. New York: The MacMillan Company. 3

Moore, Jerry D. 2012. “Franz Boas: Culture in Context.” In Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, 4th ed., 30-41. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. Moberg, Mark. 2013. “Boas and the Demise of Cultural Evolution” (excerpt). In Engaging Anthropological Theory: A Social and Political History, 138-154. New York: Routledge. Pierpont, Claudia Roth. 2004. “The Measure of America: How a Rebel Anthropologist Waged War on Racism.” New Yorker 80(3): 48-63. In-class film (excerpt): Franz Boas: The Shackles of Tradition

Monday, 9/12: Historical Particularism, continued Focus on Zora Neale Hurston Hurston, Zora Neale. [1935] 1979. “From Mules and Men.” In I Love Myself When I Am Laughing . . . And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive, edited by Alice Walker, 82-122. Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press. Trubek, Anne. 2011. “Zora’s Place.” Humanities, 32(6): 38-42. Ward, Cynthia. 2012. “Truths, Lies, Mules and Men: Through the ‘Spy-glass of Anthropology’ and What Zora Saw There.” The Western Journal of Black Studies 36(4): 301-313. In-class film: Zora Neale Hurston’s Fieldwork Footage, 1928

Wednesday, 9/14: Culture and Personality Focus on Ruth Benedict Benedict, Ruth. [1928] 1996. “Culture and Personality” and “Psychological Types in the Cultures of the Southwest.” In Anthropological Theory: An Introductory Reader, edited by R. Jon McGee and Richard L. Warms, 202-214. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing. Moore, Jerry D. 2012. Ruth Benedict: Patterns of Culture. In Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, 4th ed., 71-80. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. Sidky, Homayun. 2004. “After Boas: The Development of American Anthropology” (excerpt). In Perspectives on Culture: A Critical Introduction to Theory in Cultural Anthropology,149-157. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. Take-Home Exam #1 handed out (covers material through 9/19)

Monday, 9/19: Culture and Personality, continued Focus on Margaret Mead Mead, Margaret. 1939. “Introduction” (excerpt). In Coming of Age in Samoa, 1-11. William Morrow: New York. Metraux, Rhoda and Sydel Silverman. 2004. “Margaret Mead.” In Totems and Teachers: Key Figures in the History of Anthropology, 2nd ed., edited by Sydel Silverman, 199-221. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

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Moore, Jerry D. 2012. “Margaret Mead: The Individual and Culture.” In Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists. 4th ed., 95-106. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. In-class film (excerpt): Coming of Age: Margaret Mead

Wednesday, 9/21: Structural Functionalism Focus on A.R. Radcliffe-Brown Kuper, Adam. 1996. “Radcliffe-Brown.” In Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School. 3rd ed., 35-65. New York: Routledge. Moberg, Mark. 2013. “Structure and Function” (excerpt). In Engaging Anthropological Theory: A Social and Political History, 178-186. New York: Routledge. Moore, Jerry D. 2012. “A.R. Radcliffe-Brown: The Structures of Society.” In Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists. 4th ed., 134-145. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. Radcliffe-Brown, A.R. [1924] 1952. “The Mother’s Brother in South Africa” (excerpt). In Structure and Function in Primitive Society, 15-18. London: Routledge & Kegan.

Thursday, 9/22: Take-Home Exam #1 due at 4 PM via Moodle (note: not a class day)

Monday, 9/26: Functionalism Focus on Bronislaw Malinowski Malinowski, Bronislaw. [1922] 1984. “The Essentials of the Kula” (excerpt). In Argonauts of the Western Pacific, 81-89. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland. Moberg, Mark. 2013. “Structure and Function” (excerpt). In Engaging Anthropological Theory: A Social and Political History, 186-200. New York: Routledge. Moore, Jerry D. 2012. “Bronislaw Malinowski: The Functions of Culture.” In Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, 4th ed., 122-133. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. In-class film (excerpt): Bronislaw Malinowski: Off the Veranda

Wednesday, 9/28: NO CLASS (DePauw Dialogue) Lewis, Diane. 1973. “Anthropology and Colonialism” (excerpt). Cultural Anthropology 14(5): 582-585.

Monday 10/3: The Manchester School and Conflict Theory Focus on Max Gluckman Cocks, Paul. 2001. “Max Gluckman and the Critique of Segregation in South African Anthropology, 1921-1940.” Journal of Southern African Studies 27(4): 739-756. Gluckman, Max. [1940] 2002. “‘The Bridge’: Analysis of a Social Situation in Zululand.” In The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique, edited by Joan Vincent, 53-58. Malden, MA: Blackwell. 5

Kuper, Adam. 1996. “Leach and Gluckman” (excerpt) In Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School. 3rd edition, 135-142. New York: Routledge. Moberg, Mark. 2013. “Decolonization and Anti-Structure” (excerpt). In Engaging Anthropological Theory: A Social and Political History, 201-211. New York: Routledge.

Wednesday 10/5: Cultural Ecology Focus on Julian Steward Moore, Jerry D. 2012. “Evolutionary, Adaptationist, and Materialist Theories” and “Julian Steward: Cultural Ecology and Multilinear Evolution.” In Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, 4th ed., 157-59 and 174-184. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. Moberg, Mark. 2013. “Ecological and Neo-Evolutionary Approaches” (excerpt). In Engaging Anthropological Theory: A Social and Political History, 225-241. New York: Routledge. Steward, Julian H. 1955. “The Patrilineal Band.” In Theory of Culture Change: The Methodology of Multilinear Evolution, 122-142. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Monday, 10/10: Cultural Materialism Focus on Marvin Harris Harris, Marvin. [1966] 1992. “The Cultural Ecology of India’s Sacred Cattle” (excerpt). Current Anthropology 33(1): 261-265. Moberg, Mark. 2013. “Contemporary Materialist and Ecological Approaches.” In Engaging Anthropological Theory: A Social and Political History, 246-265. New York: Routledge. Moore, Jerry D. 2012. “Marvin Harris: Cultural Materialism.” In Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, 4th ed., 185-195. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

Wednesday 10/12: Structuralism Focus on Claude Lévi-Strauss Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1978. “‘Primitive’ Thinking and the ‘Civilized’ Mind.” In Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture, 15-24. New York: Schocken Books. Moberg, Mark. 2013. “Symbols, Structures, and the ‘Web of Significance’” (excerpt). In Engaging Anthropological Theory: A Social and Political History, 266-279. New York: Routledge. Moore, Jerry D. 2012. “Claude Lévi-Strauss: Structuralism.” In Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, 4th ed., 209-223. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. Wiseman, Boris and Judy Groves. 1997. “The Nature of Thinking.” In Introducing Lévi-Strauss and Structural Anthropology, 52-63. New York: Totem Books.

Monday 10/17-Wednesday, 10/19: NO CLASS (Fall Break) 6

Monday 10/24: Interpretive Anthropology Focus on Clifford Geertz Geertz, Clifford. 1973. “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight” (excerpt). In The Interpretation of Cultures, 412-423. New York: Basic Books. Moore, Jerry D. 2012. “Clifford Geertz: An Interpretive Anthropology.” In Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, 4th ed., 235-246. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. Roseberry, William. 1981. “Balinese Cockfights and the Seduction of Anthropology.” In Anthropologies and Histories: Essays in Culture, History, and Political Economy, 17-29. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Take-Home Exam #2 handed out (covers material through 10/26)

Wednesday 10/26: Symbolic Anthropology Focus on Victor Turner Deflem, Mathieu. 1991. “Ritual, Anti-Structure, and Religion: A Discussion of Victor Turner’s Processual Symbolic Analysis.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 30(1):1-25. Moore, Jerry D. 2012. “Victor Turner: Symbols, Pilgrims and Drama.” In Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, 4th ed., 224-234. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. Turner, Victor. 1967. “Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage” (excerpt). In The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual, 94-102. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Friday, 10/28: Last day to withdraw from a course with grade of W, change from P/F to grade, change from grade to P/F.

Monday, 10/31: Postmodernism Focus on James Clifford Barrett, Stanley R. 1996. “Postmodernism.” In Anthropology: A Student’s Guide to Theory and Method, 150-162. Buffalo: University of Toronto Press. Clifford, James. 1986. “Introduction: Partial Truths.” In Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, edited by James Clifford and George E. Marcus, 1-26. Berkeley: University of California Press. Starn, Orin. 2012. “Writing Culture at 25: Special Editor’s Introduction.” Cultural Anthropology 27(3): 411-416.

Tuesday, 11/1: Take-Home Exam #2 due at 4 PM via Moodle (note: not a class day)

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Wednesday 11/2: Postmodernism, continued Focus on Michel Foucault Fillingham, Lydia Alix. 1993. “Introduction” (excerpt). In Foucault for Beginners, 2-18. Danbury, CT: For Beginners. Foucault, Michel. 1995. “The Body of the Condemned” (excerpt). In Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, 3-16 and 25-28. New York: Vintage Books. Hoffman, Marcelo. 2011. “Disciplinary Power” (excerpt). In Michel Foucault: Key Concepts, edited by Dianna Taylor, 27-35. New York: Routledge.

Monday 11/7: Practice Theory Focus on Pierre Bourdieu Bourdieu, Pierre 1990 The Kabyle House or the World Reversed. In The Logic of Practice. Richard Nice, trans. Pp. 271-283. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Moore, Jerry D. 2012 Pierre Bourdieu: An Anthropology of Practice. In Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists. 4th edition. Pp. 292-307. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. Ortner, Sherry 1984 Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties (excerpt). Comparative Studies in Society and History 26(1): 144-157.

Wednesday 11/9: Political Economy Focus on Eric Wolf Moore, Jerry D. 2012. “Eric Wolf: Culture, History, Power.” In Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, 4th ed., 308-326. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. Wolf, Eric R. 1982. “Introduction.” In Europe and the People Without History, 3-23. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Monday 11/14: Globalization Focus on Arjun Appadurai Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy.” In Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, 27-47. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Grossberg, Lawrence. 1997. “Cultural Studies, Modern Logics, and Theories of Globalisation” (excerpt). In Back to Reality?: Social Experience and Cultural Studies, edited by Angela McRobbie, 23-26. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Robinson, Andrew. 2011. “An A-Z of Theory: Arjun Appadurai.” Ceasefire Magazine. http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/in-theory-appadurai/ 8

Wednesday 11/16: Orientalism and Indigenous Critiques of Anthropology Focus on Vine Deloria and Edward Said Biolsi, Thomas and Larry J. Zimmerman. 1997. “Introduction: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t” (excerpt). In Indians and Anthropologists: Vine Deloria, Jr., and the Critique of Anthropology, edited by Thomas Biolsi and Larry J. Zimmerman, 3-7. Tuscon: The University of Arizona Press. Deloria, Vine. 1969. “Anthropologists and Other Friends.” In Custer Died for Your Sins, 78-100. New York: Macmillan. Dirks, Nicholas B. 2004. “Edward Said and Anthropology.” Journal of Palestine Studies 33(3): 38-54. Said, Edward W. 1978. “Introduction” (excerpt). Orientalism, 11-12. New York: Vintage Books.

Monday 11/21: Feminist Critiques of Anthropology Focus on Eleanor Leacock and Sherry Ortner Moore, Jerry D. 2012. “Eleanor Burke Leacock: Feminism, Marxism, and History” and “Sherry Ortner: Symbols, Gender, and Practice” (excerpt). In Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, 4th ed., 196-204 and 277-284. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. Leacock, Eleanor. 1978. “Women’s Status in Egalitarian Society: Implications for Social Evolution” (excerpt). Current Anthropology 19(2): 249-252, 255. Ortner, Sherry. 1972. “Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?” Feminist Studies 1(2): 5-31.

Wednesday, 11/23: NO CLASS (Thanksgiving Break)

Monday 11/28: Theory and the Boundaries of Anthropology Kuper, Adam and Jonathan Marks. 2011. “Anthropologists, Unite!” Nature 470:166-168. Low, Setha M. and Sally Engle Merry. 2010. “Engaged Anthropology: Diversity and Dilemmas.” Current Anthropology 51(S2): S203-S226. Take-Home Exam #3 handed out (covers material through 12/5)

Wednesday, 11/30: NO CLASS (Professor Marshall will be at the African Studies Association Conference)

Monday, 12/5: Student Presentations of Contemporary Articles (no reading)

Wednesday, 12/7: Student Presentations of Contemporary Articles, continued (no reading) Due: Contemporary article exegesis paper, in class

Friday, December 16: Take-Home Exam #3 due at 4 PM via Moodle

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COURSE GOALS

This course will introduce you to concepts and models that anthropologists use to explain their data. These models help anthropologists analyze big questions about human diversity and human universals, cultural stability and cultural change, and the relationship between the individual and the group. The course is organized chronologically, with earlier theories coming earlier in the semester. The challenge and goal for us this semester is to consider how these theories relate to and build on one another. We will also explore how these theories reflect the eras in which they were formulated. This course is designed to help you sharpen your critical reading skills, practice clear verbal communication of your ideas in class discussion, develop your discussion leadership skills, and improve your ability to write reflectively and integrate ideas from different sources in your writing.

COURSE EXPECTATIONS

Class Participation This course will be primarily discussion-based and class participation is essential. Class participation means attending all classes, arriving on time, volunteering to speak when you have a chance, demonstrating that you are well prepared for class by offering thoughtful comments/questions, and sometimes pushing yourself to make more rigorous, analytical, or imaginative points. I expect everyone to be respectful of other people’s ideas and opinions. While we can and should debate issues, we should not attack other people personally for the ideas they express in class. Class participation accounts for 15% of the final course grade.

NOTE ON PARTICIPATION: Participation and attendance are very important to your success in this course. Remember, you cannot participate if you are not there! If you are going to be absent, contact me before class. It is your responsibility to get all information you missed on any days you were absent. Acceptable reasons for an excused absence include family emergency, serious illness, religious holiday, and participation in college athletic competitions. Please note that excessive absences, even when excused, will negatively impact your participation grade and your final course grade at the professor’s discretion. Students with unexcused absences will receive no participation credit for the days they are absent. Typically, no more than two excused absences are permitted over the course of the semester. If you have more than four absences, you may not be eligible to continue in the course whether these absences are excused or unexcused.

Discussion Leadership Over the course of the semester, each student will lead discussion two times—once alone and once with a student partner. Student leaders will be in charge of 30-45 minutes of class time each day they lead discussion. You should prepare (1) a five-minute presentation on the life and work of the anthropologist whose theory we are discussing, (2) a handout or other visual aid to help students better understand the ideas of the anthropologist (no PowerPoint presentations, please), (3) a list of discussion questions (at minimum, five). These questions should be emailed 10 to me at least two hours (12:20 PM) ahead of class and printed on a handout for students that you pass out. Questions should reflect a close reading of the texts and be clear and understandable. They should be thought-provoking and challenging for other class participants. The questions should also encourage class participation—that is, be open-ended yet not so vague that engaging with them is problematic. There will be no opportunity to make up a missed presentation. Discussion leadership responsibilities are worth 12% of the course grade (8% for your individual discussion leadership and 4% for your shared discussion leadership).

Reading Log1 The Reading Log is a place to reflect on the theories we study; these logs are also very important preparation for the three take-home essay exams. You must fill out the log for every day that readings are assigned, except for two days when you can opt out without a grade penalty.

Each log entry should answer the following questions, and should be approximately two pages, single spaced: 1) When did the anthropologist live? 2) Where did he or she conduct fieldwork? If he/she worked primarily with one ethnic group, what was the name of that group? 3) What is the name of the school of thought (theoretical approach) to which this anthropologist belongs? 4) Drawing upon all assigned secondary sources, what is the most significant idea, approach, or concept that you associate with this anthropologist? Succinctly describe the main theoretical and conceptual issues associated with this person rather than the details of his or her life or information about his or her fieldwork. Your aim is to explain, in a nutshell, what the theorist’s original ideas and concepts are and why he or she is an important figure in the discipline. 5) What were your impressions of the writing sample written by the anthropologist? Did it grab you? Did it seem old-fashioned? Did you dislike it? If so, why? 6) What criticism might be made of the anthropologist’s ideas? 7) Can you compare or contrast his/her ideas with the ideas of another anthropologist whom we have studied? If this is an early anthropologist, can you compare or contrast his/her ideas with prevailing thoughts about non-Western peoples and society (salient during the era in which they lived)?

Helpful reminders and tips for completing the reading logs: • You must complete a Reading Log every day readings are assigned, beginning on 8/29 and ending on 11/28. For class days that don’t focus on one specific theorist (8/29, 11/16, 11/21, 11/28), you will not fill out a standard log form but a unique form prepared specifically for that class day that will be posted on Moodle. For all of the other days, you can use the standard form.

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• Students should fill out the reading log as a Microsoft Word document (approximately 1.5-2 pages in length, single spaced). Save it to your Box account or a thumb drive that you always bring with you to class. • After you fill out a form, save it in a folder with your other forms, giving it a unique name (with the name of the theorist or date of class included in each document’s title). You can upload your reading logs to Moodle before each class or wait until I call a “log check.” Note that it is fine to edit your logs to take into account points raised during our class discussion, but you should prepare a log BEFORE every class. • I will collect reading logs at random times throughout the semester to make sure that you are completing all entries and to grade the quality of your work. I will announce a “log-check” at the end of class and students will have fifteen minutes after class to submit any missing logs to Moodle. • You should submit your reading log forms to the drop-box on Moodle, uploading all forms that you have completed since the last log-check. • I will grade the reading logs on comprehension of the material, inclusion and citation of all assigned readings, and overall thoughtfulness and sophistication. Don’t worry if you don’t fully understand something or aren’t certain that your critique or comparison is valid. Just do your best, complete all sections of the log, and know that I understand the complexity of the ideas under study. I appreciate students’ honest efforts.

Your reading logs are worth 20% of your course grade. A reading log sent to me more than fifteen minutes after class but within a day will be marked down by 10 percentage points. Missing class is no excuse. If you will be absent, have your reading logs up to date on Moodle. After one day, the log will lose an additional 10 percentage points for every day it is late. I will not accept logs more than three days late.

Article Exegesis Each student will review recent issues (within the last 5 years) of one of the following journals in anthropology: Current Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Cultural Anthropology, American Ethnologist, or Anthropological Quarterly. You will select an article of interest to you and read it carefully. You will write a paper (5-6 pages) and give a class presentation on the article. In both the paper and presentations, students will 1) give an overview of the article and discuss the central theoretical concerns that the author explores and 2) link the ideas of this article with the theories that we have already discussed in class (by comparing or contrasting). Students are encouraged to be critical in their analysis of the article. Presentations cannot be postponed. The article exegesis paper is worth 5% of the course grade; the presentation is worth 3% of the course grade.

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Exams This course includes three take-home essay exams that will require students to compare and contrast major theorists and schools of thought. Access to class readings is permitted for the exam but the exam must be completed independently by each student. Each take-home exam is worth 15% of the course grade.

GRADING SUMMARY:

Class Participation: 15%; Discussion Leadership: 12%; Reading Log: 20%; Article Exegesis: 5%; Article Exegesis Presentation: 3%; Take-Home Essay Exams (3 times, x 15% each): 45%.

GRADING POLICIES

A 93+; A- 90-92.999; B+ 87-89.999; B 83-86.999; B- 80-82.999; C+ 77-79.999; C 73-76.999; C- 70-72.999; D+ 67-69.999; D 63-66.999; D- 60-62.999; F <60

At Depauw, A and A- grades reflect “achievement of exceptionally high merit.” B+, B, and B- grades indicate “achievement at a level SUPERIOR to the basic level.” C+, C, and C- grades reflect “basic achievement,” and D+, D, D- grades reflect “minimum achievement that warrants credit.” Please realize that B grades in this course reflect very good work; a “B” is not a poor grade in this or any other course at DePauw. C grades also indicate basic mastery of the material.

COURSE POLICIES

Academic Misconduct: Please familiarize yourself with DePauw’s Academic Integrity Policy. I take academic dishonesty, including plagiarism, very seriously, and at DePauw such misconduct can have a variety of serious consequences. If you are at all unsure what constitutes plagiarism, please ask. If you get behind or overwhelmed, please talk to me. Students in this course will include the following pledge on all assignments and exams: "On my honor, I pledge that I have neither given nor received unauthorized help on this assignment."

Late Assignments: All assignments are due in class on the due dates listed if not otherwise specified in the syllabus. On the due date, papers and exams may be turned in later that day for a 5 percentage point penalty (please refer to the reading log section of the syllabus for information about late reading logs). After its due date, an assignment’s value drops 10 percentage points for each day it is late. For example, if an assignment were one day late, a perfect score would give you only 90%. If it were two days late, an otherwise perfect assignment would be given 80%. I will not accept assignments more than three days late. If you have an emergency, contact me before class. 13

Missed Exams: I will not provide make-up examinations unless a serious illness or family emergency prevents a student from taking the exam at the scheduled time. Otherwise, any missed exam will result in a grade of 0%. If a religious holiday or college athletic competition conflicts with either exam time, please let me know in the first two weeks of class so that we can plan for your accommodation. If you miss the exam unexpectedly because of serious illness or family emergency, let me know within 24 hours of the missed exam time.

Laptops and cell phones: Laptop and cell phone use is generally prohibited during class sessions. If you have a special situation that requires that you use a laptop to take notes, talk to me.

Learning and Other Disabilities: If you have a documented disability, please contact Student Disabilities Services to arrange for any needed accommodations, such as extended test-taking time or the right to take tests in an environment with fewer distractions. Also, if you suspect that you have a disability but don’t yet have documentation, please reach out to Student Disability Services for help at Union Building Suite 200 or by phone at 765-658-6267. Disabilities entitled to accommodation include mobility impairments, hearing or vision issues, speech impairments, learning disabilities, ADD, ADHD, psychological disabilities, neurological impairments, traumatic brain injury, and chronic medical conditions such as migraines, AIDS, cancer, and diabetes. Please allow at least one week advance notice to ensure enough time for reasonable accommodations to be made. Otherwise, it is not guaranteed that the accommodation can be provided on a timely basis. I cannot accommodate any student without first receiving proper documentation from Student Disabilities Services, so plan ahead. It is student’s responsibility to share the letter of accommodation with me. Accommodations will not be implemented until I have received the official letter. Please note that accommodations are not retroactive. It is the responsibility of the student to discuss implementation of accommodations with me. Students with documented disabilities also have the right to choose not to use accommodations; in exercising that right, they accept the resulting outcomes. I will not retroactively address any issue arising from a student’s choice to forgo accommodations.