last updated: Mon, April 8, 2019 7:47 AM
➜ SYLLABUS HIGHLIGHTS Spring 2019 (short list of things that help your grade)
➜ ACTIVE LEARNING IN MY COURSES (2019)
Defines the three areas of "active learning" for my courses—acquisition, practice and production—and spells out in specific details what that means for students who enroll.
A statement on ways to address your instructors, including me. (Please call me "Professor Wallace" "Mr. Wallace" or "Wallace sensei."
This long document is key to doing well in my class. Reading the highlighted portions is sufficient in most cases. Covers: in detail how I determine grades, terminology I use with grades, advice for scoring well, how to understand and discuss grades with me, course rules that affect grades, and grade tables.
➜ DEVICES & MULTITASKING (2019)
No devices allowed during class unless specifically asked to use them. No multitasking. Bringing an appropriate device to every session is required. Penalties for not upholding these three rules.
*It is enough just be you a basically honest student. The only elements of these statement that might seem out-of-the-ordinary are the no-forgiveness policy, the course standards "context is king" and"over-the-shoulder." my insistence that you do not ask others to edit your work even if English is not your native language, and my particularly keen concern for looking around the room during assessments. You might find the comments on plagiarism helpful. My definition of this is possibly more strict than yours.
However, for the sake of a full understanding, here are my extensive statements on academic responsibility, the UC Honor Code, plagiarism, the mechanics of citation that help to avoid plagiarism, paraphrasing, the course standards "context is king" "over-the-shoulder" and "fair & accurate," inappropriate quoting practices, unauthorized collaboration including having others edit your work, recycling of work in other classes, paper mills, and looking at the work of others during assessments. Includes a general outline of the penalty process and penalties for all of the above.
Accommodations for students with disabilities.
➜ ENGLISH LANGUAGE CONSIDERATIONS (2019)
Expectations for students whose first language is not English, invitation to contact me, the editing of your work by others (possible only with special submissions, otherwise it is defined for my courses as academically dishonest and will be penalized fully).
This link provides details about the relationship of "code" to texts, the course definition of "object of analysis," the course definition of "analysis" (an expected element in course submissions in most cases), and statements on the expected balance between factual content and your analysis.
Some key points:
(not yet updated, this is the Fall 2018 version)
This link discusses how to bring focus to analysis, and what types of focus are acceptable for this course.
This link includes some suggestions on start points and pathways for research, research-writing work-flow, levels of credibility for secondary sources, as well as the critically aware use of them.
Some key points:
(not yet updated, this is the Fall 2018 version)
This link outlines the formal requirements for course essays such as margins, managing titles, special footnote and bibliography requirements beyond the Chicago Manual of Style requirements discussed elsewhere.
Some key points:
(not yet updated, this is the Fall 2018 version)
Provides details and links for Chicago Manual of Style—Notes and Bibliography ("CMOS-NB," or just "Chicago NB"), the required method for footnoting course essays and the bibliography lists required. Includes guidance on when to cite, when to quote. Discusses in detail the basic elements of documentation.
Some key points:
(not yet updated, this is the Fall 2018 version)
A course dictionary of terms and the concepts they represent that are used frequently in my course instructions and grading rubrics that the student needs to understand in order to score well.
Titles, people, places, and terms in premodern and modern Japanese literature.
Used with one version of J159, when I am teaching it.
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