"Diversity and How it Made America"
Dr. Carey S. Reed
Office: C-127 Smith
Telephone: ext. 5752
General Information
“Diversity and How it Made America” -- This course is designed to show how the “melting pot” that is America is what made the United States the nation that it is today. We will examine the contributions of minorities on the development of the sciences, medicine, law, and the overall society in which we live. We will also broaden the definition of the term minority. Students will be randomly assigned a specific minority for a short individual research paper and group presentation.
Attendance:
University regulations state that a student should attend every scheduled class (Policies and Rules for Students section 42-27). Frequent absence from class is unacceptable. If you miss a class it is your responsibility to determine what material, announcements, handouts, graded papers, etc., were missed due to your absence. There will be no make-ups for missed lectures or recitations. You should arrange for one of your classmates to hold returned papers in the event you are absent when papers are returned. I do not assume responsibility for holding papers if you are not there to pick them up, or have not made arrangements for someone else to pick them up. I will, of course, try to hold unclaimed papers for a few days.Class lectures:
ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION IS REQUIRED AND IS PART OF YOUR GRADE.
Office Hours (C-127 Smith):
Will be announced in lecture. Additional hours may be announced, and the office hours may be changed if I do not have students utilizing the posted hours. If you cannot attend regular office hours, please leave me a message. I will check my personal campus voice mail at least once each weekday.Computing the Course Grade:
The tentative grade scale is as follows.Percentage Grade
95 or more A
92 or more A-
88 or more B+
85 or more B
82 or more B-
75 or more C+
70 or more C
60 or more D
Less than 60 F
Components:
- Individual Research Paper (20%)
- Group Presentatiuon (20%)
- Attendance and Participation -- Lose 5 points for each absence
- Cultural Events/Activities -- Must attend 2 such events and write a 1-page reaction paper about the event/activity
- Inclass and out of class assignments
Dropping the Course:
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Contact the Office of the Registrar, in room
111 Smith. No course can be dropped after the end of the drop
period. This date, and your final exam time and date, as well
as other useful information is always appended to the copy of course offerings
for any semester. This usually occurs just before or just after
the THIRD scheduled examination in this course (This semester,
the third exam is scheduled before the last day to drop). Caution!
in dropping courses is advised because of a maximum (during your entire
PSU tenure) allowed number of credits you may drop between the end of
the "free" drop period until the end of the allowed drop period (when you
have to pay to drop).
Campus Statement on Academic Integrity, adopted
by the Altoona Campus Faculty Senate on March 19, 1985.
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"Academic integrity is the pursuit of scholarly
activity free from fraud and deception and is an educational objective
of this institution. Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited
to cheating, plagiarism, fabrication of information or citation, facilitating
acts of academic dishonesty by others, unauthorized prior possession of
examinations, submitting work of another person or work previously used
without informing the instructor, or tampering with the academic work of
other students." (Policies and Rules for Students. Section 49-20)
Consequences of Academic Dishonesty:
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"The penalty for academic dishonesty in
less serious cases consists of a failing grade for the work or test where
this misconduct occurred. This decision is made by the instructor.
For more serious cases of dishonesty, the penalties are more severe, (including
automatic failure for the course, probation, suspension or expulsion
from the University), and formal due process procedures are available
for the student and faculty involved. Section 49-20 of the Policies
and Rules for Students provides the details on these procedures."
Scheduled Classes Not Met:
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In Extraordinary circumstances (which have
occurred from time to time in the past, and which will occur from time
to time in the future), when classes are missed due to reasons
other than instructor illness, power failures, weather, and the like,
in which the missed classes are not made up), missed classes will
be rescheduled if possible, in conjunction with the Office of the Registrar.
Any such rearranging and rescheduling would be announced in class so
that appropriate arrangement could be made by all.
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