CS 1023 Cultural Implications of the Information Society

Grading Policy, Fall 2000

Course Elements	Number	Percent per element / Total points	Totals

Weekly Quizzes (Note 1)	12, drop 2, or 10	3% / 30 points	30% / 300 points
One-page Essays (Note 2)	4	7.5% / 75 points	30% / 300 points
Web Resource Project (Note 3)	1	10% / 100 points	10% / 100 points
Attendance (Note 4)	23, drop 3, or 20	0.25% / 2.5 points	5% / 50 points
Final Exam (Note 5)	1	25% / 250 points	25% / 250 points
Total			100% / 1000 points

Notes:

Weekly Quizzes: On each Friday class (the first one on September 8 and the last one on December 1 -- skipping September 1 and weeks 13 and 15) there will be a short quiz over readings and over the material recently covered. This is 12 quizzes. I will drop the two lowest grades, so only the top 10 count. In general I will not be giving make-up quizzes, so you need to save up your misses for times when you have to miss.
One-page Essays: These will have a topic assigned ahead of time and will always be due on a Wednesday.
Web Resource Project: This is a separate project for each student, in which the student researches a topic on the web and produces information and links to relevant sites.
Attendance: Attendance will be given just as a percentage of the classes that I will check for attendence. (I will check at least 23 classes.) I will allow three misses without penalty, so attending all but three of the particular classes I check will give you full credit for this part. However, you should not waste these three free misses, since I will not be considering excused absenses.
On Fridays I'll use your quiz to keep track of your attendance, and then one other day per week I'll use the quiz that I hand back to keep track of attendence.
Final Exam: This will be comprehensive over the entire course. Here is final from fall 1999,

Revision date: 2000-08-21.
(Also known as 21 August 2000, or 8/21/00.
Please use ISO 8601, the International Standard Date and Time Notation.)