Course Syllabus

Participation Policy

In this online class, your engaging, well-researched, meaningful participation through discussion board posts and responses, assignments, and projects is not only part of your attendance in the course but is also part of your grade. In order for our class to be successful and reach its full potential, we need to ensure that everyone is taking the time and putting their best efforts into our ongoing class conversation. This will include your timely response to discussion board prompts which will often include initial response as well as your interaction with and responses to other students’posts. In order for this to happen effectively, I am requesting and expecting that your work will reflect meaningful thought, critical thinking skills, solid attempts at answering the questions presented as well as useful, appropriate and thorough responses to other students when required. Not only will this help facilitate greater learning and a deeper understanding of the material for everyone, it will also allow all of us to hold effective conversations together as we work through the information or topic at hand and also learn from each other. Each assignment will vary with regards to length requirements and due dates and these will both be clearly visible in the original assignment post. Please be sure to tune into due dates and length requirements which will be posted every Monday for the week assignments.