Deep Springs College Academic Course Catalog Fall 2006 – Spring 2016 Deep Springs College Deep Springs, CA HC 72 Box 45001 via Dyer NV 89010 760-872-2000 www.deepsprings.edu Appendix B – Academic Policy Table of Contents ¤1 EDUCATIONAL MISSION .............................................................................................................................................. 10 ¤2 ACCREDITATION ........................................................................................................................................................... 10 ¤3 THE DEEP SPRINGS SCHOLARSHIP AND STUDENT FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS ................................................. 10 ¤4 ADMISSIONS .................................................................................................................................................................. 11 ¤5 INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ...................................................................................................................................... 12 ¤6 LEARNING RESOURCES ............................................................................................................................................... 12 ¤7 STATEMENT ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM ..................................................................................................................... 12 ¤8 DIVERSITY STATEMENT .............................................................................................................................................. 13 ¤9 SEXUAL HARASSMENT POLICY .................................................................................................................................. 13 ACADEMIC POLICY ............................................................................................................................................ 15 ACADEMIC SCHEDULE ............................................................................................................................................................ 15 COURSE CREDITS .................................................................................................................................................................... 15 COURSE LOAD .......................................................................................................................................................................... 16 COURSE LIST ............................................................................................................................................................................ 17 ADD/DROP .............................................................................................................................................................................. 17 PASS/FAIL ............................................................................................................................................................................... 17 AUDIT ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 17 WITHDRAWAL ......................................................................................................................................................................... 17 COMPLETION AND EVALUATION OF COURSE WORK ........................................................................................................ 17 STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES ....................................................................................................................... 18 GRADING POLICY .................................................................................................................................................................... 18 INDEPENDENT AND DIRECTED STUDIES ............................................................................................................................ 20 WRITING AT DEEP SPRINGS AND THE COMPOSITION REQUIREMENT .......................................................................... 21 PUBLIC SPEAKING ................................................................................................................................................................... 23 COURSE SELECTION ............................................................................................................................................................... 23 ACADEMIC PROBATION ......................................................................................................................................................... 23 ACADEMIC APPEALS COMMITTEE ....................................................................................................................................... 24 CONFIDENTIALITY .................................................................................................................................................................. 24 ACADEMIC HONESTY ............................................................................................................................................................. 24 TRANSFERRING TO ANOTHER COLLEGE AFTER DEEP SPRINGS .................................................................................... 25 ASSOCIATE OF ARTS DEGREE REQUIREMENTS ................................................................................................................. 25 ACADEMIC PETITIONS ........................................................................................................................................................... 26 COURSES .................................................................................................................................................................. 2 SUMMER SEMINARS .................................................................................................................................................................. 3 Modes of Political Life (Political Theory, Literature & Poetry) ......................................................................... 3 Literature and Politics: Aspects of Modernity (Political Theory, Literature & Poetry) .......................... 3 Forms of Power (Political Theory) ................................................................................................................................ 3 Nature/Politics (Political Theory) ................................................................................................................................. 4 Questions of Ethics, GenealoGies of the Divine (Philosophy, Literature & Poetry) ................................... 4 FoundinGs and Refoundings: Tradition, Memory, and Political Identity (Political Science, History) ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Aesthetics, Ethics, and Community (Philosophy, Political Theory) ................................................................. 5 Summer Seminar 2013 ....................................................................................................................................................... 5 Human RiGhts and World History (Political Science, History) .......................................................................... 5 Questions of Ethics: GenealoGies of the Divine (Literature & Poetry, ReliGious Studies) ...................... 5 HUMANITIES .......................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Appendix B – Academic Policy First Year Composition (WritinG) .................................................................................................................................. 7 Poetry Workshop (English, Writing) ............................................................................................................................ 7 Elements of Composition (WritinG) ............................................................................................................................... 7 Feminism (Gender & Cultural Studies) ........................................................................................................................ 8 Nietzsche (Philosophy) ....................................................................................................................................................... 8 Plato (Philosophy) ................................................................................................................................................................ 8 American Transcendentalism & American PraGmatism (Literature & Poetry, Philosophy) ............... 8 Heavy Lies the Head that Wears the Crown: Leadership, Power & Authority in Shakespeare's Plays (Literature & Poetry, Theater Arts) .................................................................................................................. 9 Emily Dickinson (Literature & Poetry) ........................................................................................................................ 9 Romanticism (EnGlish) ....................................................................................................................................................... 9 The Anthropology of Oral Poetry and Performance (Literature & Poetry, Anthropology) ............... 10 Intensive Introductory