Student Syllabus Cover
Sheet Revised June, 2006
Semester and Year
- Fall 2012 FYI: This is
for use online. If you want a
printable syllabus, use the one provided below this link. |
CRN (Course Reference
Number), Course Prefix, Number and Title
– CRN 10982 - HIST 1302-162 |
Course Meeting Days, Times
and Location (Campus, Building, and Room number)
– Distance Learning Course in Blackboard |
Instructor’s Name
- C.J. Bibus, Ed.D. |
Instructor’s Telephone
number(s) – 281.239.1577 (This phone is located in my
office at Fort Bend Tech Center, not
Sugarland) – Checked once a day as
early as possible. Instructor’s email address
– If Blackboard is not available, bibusc@wcjc.edu
- Checked once a day as early as
possible. |
Instructor’s Office
Hours and Office Location – Or by appointment. Office
Hours at FBTC 240-G: 9:30-11:00 (MWF), 12:50-1:50 (M), 12:50-2:50 (W). Office
Hours at SUGUH 234 (faculty area): 8:55-9:25 (TTR); 12:05-1:05 (T);
12:05-12:35 (TR) Online Hours: 1:20-1:50 (M), 12:30-1:00 (T),
1:00-1:30 (W), 12:05-12:35 (TR), 9:30-10:00 AM (F). |
Course Catalog
Description – Continuation of HIST 1301, covering the
period from the close of Reconstruction to the present, with emphasis upon
the United States in the contemporary world. |
Instructor’s Grading
System – Student grade will be determined by Reading
Quizzes (to help you determine what you
need to read), Forums, a short essay on content essential to understanding
how history changes, and objective exams ending each of the three major time
periods, or Units, covered in the course. Students also write the essay exams
ending Unit 1, Unit 2, and Unit 3. Alternatively, for their third written
assignment, students may choose to write a more challenging writing
assignment, a comparison. All written assignments are graded using the
Evidence Rubric/Checklist for the course. See syllabus for course policies,
exam dates, grading policies, and points for each type of assignment. |
Instructor’s Attendance
Policy – Blackboard stores an immense amount of data on
time spent and where you spend it: this data reveals who is attending—who is
actively working in the course. In this class, failure to participate in the
Forums and by being current (90% by the date in the Course Schedule) in doing
Reading Quizzes as guides to what you
need to read in the textbook will prohibit successful completion of the
course. |
Last day to “Drop”
course with grade of “W” – 11/16/2012 |
* Any student with
a disability or other special circumstance requiring academic accommodations or
other consideration in order to successfully complete the requirements of this
course should identify himself or herself individually to the instructor to
discuss the matter in a private and confidential manner.
** Misconduct for which discipline may be administered
at WCJC includes, but is not limited to, cheating, plagiarism, or knowingly
furnishing false information to the college (plagiarism and cheating refer to
the use of unauthorized books, notes, or otherwise securing help in a test,
copying tests, assignments, reports, or term papers).
American History 1302
Syllabus –
Fall 2012
Instructor:
C.J. Bibus, Ed.D. |
U.S.
History from 1877 |
Wharton
County Junior College |
Email:
bibusc@wcjc.edu–Checked once a day as
early as possible. |
Office
Phone: 281.239.1577–Checked once a day as early as possible. |
Location
During Office Hours: SUGUH 234, faculty area |
Office:
Fort Bend Tech Center 240-G (MWF) |
Location
at Sugar Land: SUGUH 234, faculty area (TTR) |
Office
Hours at FBTC 9:30-11:00 (MWF), 12:50-1:50 (M), 12:50-2:50 (W); at SUGUH
8:55-9:25 (TTR); 12:05-1:05 (T); 12:05-12:35 (TR) Online Hours: 1:20-1:50
(M), 12:30-1:00 (T), 1:00-1:30 (W), 12:05-12:35 (TR), 9:30-10:00 AM (F). – Or
by appointment. |
Prerequisite: THEA reading and writing
requirements met. HIST 1301 recommended, but not required.
Course Description: Continuation of HIST 1301,
covering the period from the close of Reconstruction to the present, with
emphasis upon the
Course Objectives:
1)
to develop critical thinking skills which would include the knowledge,
comprehension, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of the significant events of
2)
to enable the student to understand the primary elements of cultural
heritage and the cultural diversity of the
3)
to foster in the student an understanding of the uses of historical
knowledge, to show how the past helps to explain the present, and to assist the
student in developing an historical perspective in and for one’s personal life
4)
to provide students with a base of historical knowledge and the tools to
further their studies in other disciplines and as transfer students to other
colleges
Academic and Personal Integrity: Consequences of plagiarism
and cheating during examinations include referral to administrators without any
opportunity for making redress, a failing grade for the course, disciplinary
probation, or suspension (dismissal). Plagiarism and cheating include use of
unauthorized books or notes, securing help in a test, or copying tests or
assignments; they will result in a failing grade for the assignment. If any
portion of a writing assignment is copied from the Internet or another source,
the result will be an F (0) on the
assignment.
Attendance Policy: Blackboard
automatically records data about your work. If your grade is borderline between
letter grades (needing 2 points to become the higher grade), I will consider if you did
two things throughout the course: 1) Did you take quizzes until you made 90% or
higher, especially by the date for the extra credit and the recommended date
for completion in the Course Schedule? 2) Did you help each other and yourself by
participating in the Forums in the Discussion tool in the course?
Classroom Civility: As with an on-campus
classroom, each student is expected not to disrupt the class. The term
“classroom disruption” means behavior a reasonable person would view as
substantially or repeatedly interfering with the conduct, instruction, and
education of a class. Blackboard stores what you do (such as tests and messages
that you create with any tool), when you do it, and where you go. Some
Blackboard tools—such as the Forums in the Discussion tool—not only store messages
permanently, but also make what you write visible to everyone in the class.
When communicating publicly with the whole class and with individuals, you need
to be both kind and collaborative.
Classroom
Communications and Your Instructor’s Responsibilities:
Every day the college is in session, I do these things:
1.
At
the beginning of the day, check my office voice mail for phone
messages. Caution: my phone is in
my office at Fort Bend Tech Center, but I am at the Sugar Land campus on
Tuesdays and Thursdays in Fall. Click Contact Instructor (on the Course Menu)
for a link to a schedule showing contact information by days of the week.
2.
After
my last class for the day, log in
and check Blackboard mail and read your postings in the current Forum. Although
I read postings, I wait to reply so you can have a chance to help each other. I
grade them on the date in the Course Schedule (on the Course Menu and at the
end of this link). On that date, the Forum automatically close at 1:00 PM in
Fall.
3.
Every
day the college is in session, read and
respond to emails within 48 hours or—if that is impossible—post an
Announcement. If you do not get a reply or see an announcement, please try
emailing again or try to contact me by voice mail. If you leave a message,
please a) spell your last name, b) say your class CRN, and c) slowly say your phone number twice.
Classroom
Communications and Your Responsibilities: You
must log in regularly. Students usually
log in at least 3 times a week during the semester and check
Blackboard mail (Messages/Course Mail). You may
read Forums, but you must read any emails from me and all Announcements.
You also must look at feedback I provide by email and by comments
at My Grades. Finally, you must respond to Blackboard itself: you must
run Browser Check when you begin this course.
Due
Dates and Your Responsibilities: The 1-page Course
Schedule shows all due dates at the beginning of the term, and there are no
extensions unless it is appropriate to make an extension available to all of you.
With due dates for Unit Exams (essay or objective parts) and the History
Changes Essay, you have these responsibilities:
1.
If your planning at
the beginning of the term shows you cannot submit a major assignment on time,
such as having previously scheduled a trip, tell me immediately and suggest an earlier date for you do the assignment.
2.
If something
happens that you cannot plan for, such as suddenly becoming very ill (doctor’s
note required) or having a death in the family, call and email me immediately
and provide a valid, written excuse. With
a valid, written excuse, these rules apply.
- You email a proposed date and a two-hour period during my office hours to
take the objective exam or write the essay(s).
- If I cannot agree, I suggest alternatives. If I can agree, I send
instructions on how we do this.
The
Getting Started section of your course lets you use every Blackboard tool that
you will need for your work (Assessments, Assignments, and Forums within the
Discussion Board).Getting Started also shows you some tools or features of
Blackboard that can make your life easier in finding what you need, such as
being able to display additional information–if you want it.
In
Getting Started you not only use these tools, but you also use a quiz to
specify your course plan, both for assignments and for small extra credits for
doing things such as keeping up with the work. You must mark that you
will do assignments that amount to more than 1000 points to be able to see the
content for Unit 1. Completing that quiz to record your course plan makes Unit
1, the first content that we do, visible to you. You also have an opportunity
for small extra credit activities. If you need help with Getting Started,
please ask.
The course consists of
three Units or major time periods that reveal shifts in our history:
§
Unit 1: Creating a New America - How America Changed from
the 1860s to 1900
§
Unit 2: Moving to the World Stage - America from 1900 to
1940
§
Unit 3: Transformations – America from 1940 to the 21st
Century
Each of the three Units offer
the same types of resources in the same order:
1.
Each Unit begins with a
brief overview of the time period and a list of all possible essay
questions you might be asked in the essay part of the exam that ends the Unit.
2.
Each Unit has three subdivisions, about
one-third of the content, to make learning more manageable.
Each of the subdivisions within a Unit is
organized in the same way. Each is in a folder and: §
Begins with a link listing all of the approximately
40 questions in the Reading Quiz for the content §
Provides aids, including for self-testing,
to help you save time (You can also view, print, or save these aids to your
computer.) §
Ends with the online Reading Quiz,
displaying 10 of those 40 questions at a time (These online quizzes let you measure what you know and do not know. You determine what you need to read.) |
3.
Each Unit has an additional folder of Videos
of Primaries and Secondaries for the time period. The videos have two purposes:
to let you see people as they were in different eras and to find a visual image
of something you are reading about. To find a video on a specific person or
event, you use the searchable, online list.
Tip: The term primary means sources created during the
time period—and for this period of United States History that includes films
taken during the period. The term secondary
means research based on primaries. For example, the videos include interviews
with noted historians.
4.
Each Unit has a section, Bringing It All
Together, to help you bring together the content from the beginning to the end
of the Unit so you can see where the major shifts are occurring. To help your
understanding, use these aids as you
work through the Unit.
5.
Each Unit ends with a folder for the two parts
of the exam that ends the Unit. Because Blackboard does not make tests visible
until you can take them, the folder shows where the exams will be on the date in the Course Schedule.
There are no surprises in
the two parts of the exams at the end of each Unit so you can work and read
efficiently:
§
For the essay part of the exam, you know all
possible essay questions from the list that began the Unit (# 1 above).
§
For the objective part of the exam, you know all
possible objective questions (about 120) from the combination of the three
Reading Quizzes (# 2 above).
Although there are no
surprises to students in the two parts of the exam, each student sees a
different essay and objective exam:
§
From that list of all essay questions (# 1
above), Blackboard displays a few choices for each student who takes the exam.
§
From the 120 objective questions (# 2 above),
Blackboard displays 40 questions for each student who takes the exam.
Links and Files of Content:
You are welcome to copy to your computer or flash drive any of the content I
provide. For tips on how to do this (and other computer and Blackboard basics),
click on the Hi! Welcome to the Course
link in Getting Started & Syllabus. You will find resources for this and other
things students sometimes need in the top section of that link. If you need
help, just ask.
Content and Reading Quiz and Exams:
There are three issues with quizzes and exams:
1.
Be sure you save correctly and check the
results. Each time you take any quiz, click to see the graded results,
especially Reading Quizzes. Record the Reading Quiz questions you missed so you know what you need to read in the textbook.
2.
In this course, most assessments (such as
those Reading Quizzes) are used for self-testing and therefore you may take
them unlimited times, with the highest score counting. They do not require
a password. Some assessments, however, you may take only once. Those are the
History Changes Essay and the two-part exam (objective part and essay part)
that ends each Unit. They do require a password. The password is onetimeonly
(Notice there are no spaces between the words.)
3. Beginning
with Reading Quiz B, we will use Respondus Lock-down Browser for all quizzes
and all exams. I will send the instructions as a Blackboard mail
(Messages/Course Mail). To help you know to check for a mail message sent to
all of you, I will send an Announcement saying: Read your email. Click on Messages/Course Mail (on the Course Menu).
Blackboard
is set up to add points as you earn
them. With this method, you can always see your Total of how many points you
have earned. If you need help in estimating your average during the course, just
ask. Your Total at the end of the course determines your letter grade. An A is
900+ points; a B, 800+ points; a C, 700+ points; a D, 600+ points, and an F,
594 or fewer points. If your final average is .5 or higher, the grade is
rounded up. For example, if you have:
§
An average of 89.5% (895 points earned ÷ 1000 points possible), you have an A
§
An average of 89.4% (894 points earned ÷ 1000 points possible), you have a B
Consider in your planning for success the small extra
credits provided in the course to encourage habits that result your doing
better work and therefore your earning a higher grade. You identify the extra
credits that you plan to do at the beginning of the course.
The table shows the percentage of the total grade
for types of assignments, their points, and a description.
Percent |
Points |
Description of
Each Course Assignment |
20% |
200 |
40 points: Participation in Forums – 16
points for Unit 1, 12 for Unit 2, and 12 for Unit 3. 10 points:
History Changes Essay. 150 points, 2 essays at 25 points at the end of
Units 1, 2, and 3 (each 50 points). |
10% |
100 |
10 online objective Quizzes done in Blackboard at
10 points each – There are 9 quizzes (3 for each of 3 Units) to help you determine
what you need to read and a 10th
quiz to help you refresh your memory for the Final Exam. |
20% |
200 |
Unit 1’s Exam Objective (200 points, 40 questions
at 5 points each). |
20% |
200 |
Unit 2’s Exam Objective (200 points, 40 questions
at 5 points each). |
20% |
200 |
Unit 3’s Exam Objective (200 points, 40 questions
at 5 points each). |
10% |
100 |
Final Exam, objective – If not taken, an F for the Course, not just the exam itself. |
100% |
1000 |
Total Points for the Course – This means that I divide your Total by 1000 to determine your
average. |
Reading Quizzes Within Unit 1, 2, and 3: Use these quizzes before you read. They are available anywhere
you have Internet access and until the last hour of the last
date of the exam that ends the Unit. You can take quizzes unlimited times, with
the highest score counting. When you take a quiz, Blackboard randomly asks 10
(1 point each) of the quiz’s approximately 40 questions. You can see the
answers immediately, but must wait an hour before you can retake the quiz. While waiting, go read the
textbook on questions you missed. If you make a 9 or 10
before the date in the Course Schedule, you can earn extra points.
You can also use your
copy of the link to all of the questions as
you work to be sure you have seen all questions within the quiz. You can use it
as a place to record things, such as why you missed the question or where you
found the answer in the textbook.
Objective Part of the Exams That End Unit 1, 2, and
3: You can
take an exam only one time. The content in an objective exam is covered in the
Basic Organization of the Course.
Final Examination That Ends the Course: You
can take the Final Exam only one time. The Final Exam was written by the
History Department. It is
multiple choice and covers the entire course. Students who do not
take the Final Exam receive an F for the course (not just the exam itself).
The
course provides Quiz J (for 10 points) to help you refresh your memory of
approximately 100 questions from Quizzes A through I. You can also see a link
to all of the questions in Quiz J.
History Changes Essay: A
lab for a chemistry
or biology class is equivalent to what writing
about history is for history. Chemistry or biology instructors may do an
introductory lab so students know what to do in a lab and how grading works. For
this history course, the History Changes Essay is the introductory lab so
everyone must do it. After the date in the Course Schedule, when you click on
the History Changes Essay on the menu for the course, you see all possible
questions, a table comparing the content, the specific parts of the textbook
for that content, and resources to help you.
When you write your History Changes
Essay, you may use your textbook and you must have read carefully the specific
textbook sections for the questions. You do
not need to cite page numbers. You should write no more than the equivalent of a half-sheet of paper handwritten.
Blackboard will display one question from the list of possible
questions, and you must answer the question that you receive. You write briefly
according to the Evidence Checklist/Rubric and the Goal for Written Assignments
(below).
Caution: You must
do the History Changes Essay to see the essay part of the three Unit exams.
Essay Part of the Exams That End Unit 1, 2, and 3
(Each at 50 Points): You can take an exam only one time. The content in an essay exam is
covered in the Basic Organization of the Course. Alternatively, for
your third written assignment, you may choose to write a more challenging
writing assignment, a comparison. If you want more information on this alternative,
contact me.
Grading
and the Evidence Checklist/Rubric: The word checklist means a list of things
necessary for success (such as a pilot’s checklist for takeoff) and you either
do them and succeed or you do not and failure occurs. The word rubric usually means a way to give
feedback that is useful but quick for both instructors and students.
The term checklist/rubric
indicates this is both a checklist for success with evidence and a way to give
feedback. The standards in the checklist, abbreviated as CL, and
numbered 1 through CL 5, are common standards in academics and for jobs that
depend on evidence, but they are written very informally and specifically to
what you need to do in this course.
CL 1 |
For your source of facts,
you use only the textbook chosen
by the History Department and the sources provided
in our Blackboard course. Do not
use Internet websites, another textbook, or any other source—including your
own memory. |
CL 2 |
You may write facts in your
own words or you may use exact words from the textbook as long as you use
quotation marks according to the specific rules in The Bedford Handbook. For example, you cannot copy an author’s
phrases without quotation marks or just replace a few words in an author’s
sentence. This is what The Bedford
Handbook calls “half-copy” plagiarism (page 692). |
CL 3 |
If you use another’s words,
you must be sure either not to change them or—if you change them—to follow
the specific rules in The Bedford
Handbook to reveal any changes you made to those words. |
CL 4 |
You must use the source to
verify what you write. If you cannot verify the fact, do not write it and do
not assume that the source agrees with you. If you are certain something is
true and you cannot find it clearly in our sources, ask me for help. - If a question is about
something specific (such as a time, type of person, or region), verify that
the source is about that specific thing. - If the source covers facts
about two or more sides or positions, do not include only one side as though
the other did not occur. |
CL 5 |
With most writing work, if asked, you must be able to state exactly where (a specific page)
in the source that each fact came
from—whether you wrote the words or the author did. With the alternative
third assignment, you must cite according to the instructions. |
Grading
and the Goal of Written Assignments: One of the most powerful
ways to learn something is to try
to teach it. If you follow the
standards in the Evidence Checklist/Rubric and you try to understand what
happened so you can teach it as
simply but as accurately as you can, you will have something worth writing. If
you then write in a common sense way (not fancy) as though you were teaching
your cousin history that he or she needed to understand, you will succeed in
these assignments.
This course uses grading,
including small extra credits, to encourage habits that increase your odds of
learning history.
Extra
Credit with the History Changes Essay: The History Changes Essay
shows you a) how you work and b) how your instructor grades using the Evidence Checklist/Rubric.
If you make a low grade and if you do not change how you work, you will probably make a low grade on the
other essays. You can however figure out how
you work—and earn 10 extra credit points by following the
instructions you receive with your graded History Changes Essay. If you want
simple ways to be stronger, I am glad to help you. I enter this extra credit in
History Changes Essay_ec.
Extra
Credit with the Three 50-point Written Assignments You Do: After
the History Changes Essay, you do three 50-point assignments, the Exam Essays
for Units 1, 2, and 3. Reminder: for your third written assignment,
you may choose to write a more challenging writing assignment, a comparison. If you want more information
on this alternative, contact me.
Each written assignment
is graded using the Evidence Checklist/Rubric. If you follow the five standards
in the checklist and practice good habits with evidence in your
written work with history (habits also necessary for many jobs), then you can
earn 10 extra credit points (recorded in Habit_ec after I grade the
third written assignment).
Students have different
backgrounds. To succeed, you need to be able to identify what you
need and get accurate help quickly. The easy—but useless—way out is to
memorize. I cannot stop you from memorizing quiz answers, but I can organize
the course where you can make
your daily work where it easier to read and understand than to
memorize:
§
Reading Quizzes let you measure what your
brain thinks is true. You know what you do not know before the exam. You can fix your
weakness by knowing what you need to read and by having a place to ask
questions so you understand.
§
The focus of the Forums is helping you efficiently and accurately find what you
need to read in our textbook or in my
resources in the Unit. You can get points
EITHER for asking OR for answering
about where to read
- EITHER about a Reading Quiz question
- OR about one of the possible essay questions that are
listed at the top of the Unit when it opens
§
The focus of the Forums is helping you
understand, not just repeat back some words. If you think that the
information is not in the textbook or in my resources and you need more
information so you understand (so things make common sense to you),
you can get points for asking me for more information. I am
glad to provide more if you tell me you need it.
§
The intent of the Forums is to reduce your work by sharing with your
colleagues in the class so you all can be as fast and as accurate as you
can be at the lowest cost in time to each of you.
§
The timing
of the Forums and of the extra credit for Reading Quizzes is intended to help you stay current (and not let
work pile up). Keeping up increases odds
for success and provides the necessary time for learning to “soak in.”
What is the extra credit for Reading
Quizzes? If you score 9 or 10 on a Reading Quiz by the date in the Course
Schedule, you earn 2 extra credit points. I type in the extra credit next to
the Reading Quiz grade. The extra credit has the letter of the quiz and
_ec (such as A_ec or B_ec). For example, if you had a 9 for Quiz A by the due
date, the next day you see A_ec with a value of 2.
Edward
Ayers, Lewis Gould, David Oshinsky, and Jean Soderlund. American Passages: A
History of the United States. You may use either the 2nd or 3rd
or 4th edition and either hardback or Compact Edition (paperback).
If the book has 32 chapters, it will
work.
Caution: You cannot use the BRIEF, 4th edition which has 2 fewer chapters than the other 4th editions. If you
need details on how to recognize this book (or tips on buying a cheap book), click
on the Hi! Welcome to the Course link in Getting Started & Syllabus.
The
timing of the schedule for daily work looks odd to students until I state two
things:
1. The
schedule for Unit 1 is spread out over a longer time period than the other two
Units because :
§
Forum A is a moderated Forum. They require more time—but you also receive more
points. §
You also do the History Changes Essay during Unit 1. Its dates are in the
section below for Major Dates. |
2. Two
things that you need me to do require
my being available to do those things
during my office hours.
§
Grade a Forum but make it visible again
quickly. Solution: I set Blackboard
to close the Forum at 1:00 pm on the date listed in the table. I grade and
reopen the Forum for viewing (not posting) before I leave for the day. §
Enter 2 points of extra credit for
students that have a 9 or 10 for a Reading Quiz on the due date. Solution: You must have a 9 or 10 by
the due date; however, I enter the extra credit the next day. (Assume it will be early
the next day.) |
Timing: The Units and their
Reading Quizzes open at 12:01 AM and close at 11:59 PM on the dates shown in
the table. You can take Reading Quizzes until the Unit closes on the last day
of its Exam and the highest score counts, but to earn the extra credit you must
score 9 or 10 by the date shown in the table. Forums open at 12:01 AM and close
at 1:00 PM on the dates shown in the table.
Resources You Use Together: The table shows you what resources you use together for each Unit. Identify the possible essay questions at the start of the Unit. Look at the link to all Quiz Questions and the Resources in the folder to see if they can save you time. Take the online quiz several times to see what you missed and therefore you have to read. Use the index to locate what you need to read in the textbook. If you cannot find the information quickly, check the Forum. Use the dates to pace yourself.
Unit # |
Unit Opens |
Folder in the
Unit (Has Link of All Quiz Questions, Resources, the Online Quiz) |
Reading Quiz |
Chapters to Use |
Forum to Use |
Forum Opens |
Forum Graded |
Extra Credit IF
Quiz at 9 or 10 |
Unit Closes |
Unit 1 |
8/27 – List of essay
questions visible |
Reconstruction Abandoned;
Beginning of the Gilded Age |
Quiz A |
16, 17 |
Forum A |
8/29 |
9/10 |
9/10 |
10/08 |
Gilded
Age Transformations |
Quiz B |
17, 18 |
Forum B |
9/11 |
9/19 |
9/19 |
|||
Turmoil
and Expansion |
Quiz C |
19 |
Forum C |
9/20 |
10/3 |
10/3 |
|||
Unit 2 |
10/7 – List of essay
questions visible |
Progressivism: Roosevelt to
Wilson |
Quiz D |
20, 21 |
Forum D |
10/8 |
10/15 |
10/15 |
11/3 |
World
War I and Its Transformations Including Mass Culture |
Quiz E |
22, 23 |
Forum E |
10/16 |
10/23 |
10/23 |
|||
Great Depression, Seeds of the New Deal, and The New Deal
and New Challenges |
Quiz F |
24, 25 |
Forum F |
10/24 |
10/31 |
10/31 |
|||
Unit 3 |
11/2 – List of essay
questions visible |
World War II; the Post-War |
Quiz G |
26, 27 |
Forum G |
11/4 |
11/12 |
11/12 |
12/3 |
1950s Transformations; The Turbulent
Years (The 1960s) |
Quiz H |
28, 29 |
Forum H |
11/13 |
11/20 |
11/20 |
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The Crisis of Confidence
(1969-1992 Era); Reagan to Clinton to Bush (1992-2000+) |
Quiz I |
30, 31, 32 |
Forum I |
11/21 |
11/30 |
11/30 |
The
table shows the major dates (and holidays), what you do on those dates, where
you click on the Course Menu for the content and assessment, and when content
is visible. Units end in a two-part exam—essays and objective. The Final Exam
does not have an essay. All work is available at 12:01 AM on the date in the
table and ends at 11:59 PM on the date in the table.
Date |
What You Do on
These Major Dates |
On the Course
Menu, click… |
Content Visible
When? |
8/27-30 |
Start Orientation – Submit
Your Course Plan and Your Information To earn the extra credits, you
must complete them before 8/30. |
Getting Started &
Syllabus |
On 8/27 |
8/27 |
Start Unit 1& |
Unit 1 |
After Course Plan quiz# |
9/1 |
No
class (Labor Day Holiday) |
— |
— |
9/23-24@ |
Write History Changes Essay |
History Changes Essay |
On 9/10 |
10/7-8@ |
Take Unit 1’s Exam Objective
and Essays |
Unit 1 |
— |
|
Start Unit 2 |
Unit 2 |
After Unit 1’s objective# |
11/2-3@ |
Take Unit 2’s Exam Objective
and Essays |
Unit 2 |
— |
|
Start Unit 3 |
Unit 3 |
After Unit 2’s objective# |
11/16 |
Last
day you can drop a course (You must initiate the drop.) |
— |
— |
11/22-23 |
No
class (Thanksgiving Holiday) |
— |
— |
12/2-3@ |
Take Unit 3’s Exam Objective
and Essays |
Unit 3 |
— |
12/2-8@ |
Start to refresh for the Departmental
Final Exam with Quiz J |
Final Exam, Quiz J folder |
After Unit 3’s objective# |
12/8@ |
Take the Final Exam (12:00
AM-11:59 PM) – the date set by WCJC |
Final Exam, Exam folder |
On 12/8 |
& In
the first days of class, you only see the first Reading Quiz, its resources,
and—after you have had a chance to try the Reading Quiz—its Forum.
#When you
take this assessment, Blackboard shows you
the next content. The sooner you
take the assessment, the sooner you
see the next content. Example: When
your score for the Course Acknowledgement and Your Plan is 1000 or more,
Blackboard shows you Unit 1’s content.
@ All content on the Course Menu ends with an
assessment. Blackboard, however, does not display an assessment until students
can actually take it. To help you know that you are in the right location, I
place these assessments in folders. The folders look empty until the day you
can take the assessment.
Password: If you can take an assessment
only one time, it requires a password. The required password is:
onetimeonly (Notice no spaces between words.)
I reserve the right to
modify the syllabus and the schedule during the semester.
WCJC
Department: |
History – Dr. Bibus |
Contact Information: |
281.239.1577 or bibusc@wcjc.edu |
Last Updated: |
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