American Romanticism Syllabus Element

Email and webpage requirements:

Students contribute to the course webpage at http://coursesite.uhcl.edu/HSH/Whitec/LITR/4232

• To provide models of completed assignments for students unfamiliar with the course’s expectations and standards.

• To provide a medium for sharing work.

• To record the course’s accomplishments and help future courses advance them.

• To prepare a possible online future for the course.

Each student must make several contributions to the webpage through the instructor via email or other electronic media. When the course concludes, students may request via email that any or all of their contributions be removed from the webpage. The instructor may delete some student contributions as more samples are gathered and the page is edited.

All webpage contributions are posted as submitted. That is, the instructor does not edit them, nor do the instructor’s grades and comments appear on the webpage. However, students are welcome to submit revised or edited versions of assignments at any time during or after the semester.

Required email contributions:

1. presentation posting, including discussion question(s).

2. midterm exam

3. research proposal

4. research project

Optional email contribution:

5. final exam

Email address: Send all emails to whitec@uhcl.edu. Note the "c" at the end of "whitec." If you send the email to "white" only, it goes to the wrong faculty member.

Attachments, etc.: Try both of the following

·        “Attach” your word processing file to an email message. (My computer uses Microsoft Word 2007. The only word processing programs my computer appears unable to translate are Microsoft Works and Apple programs. If in doubt, save your word processing file in "Rich Text Format" or a “text only” format.)

·        If you’re not using Word, paste the contents of your file directly into the email message.

If you have trouble reaching me by email, save your word processing file to a 3½“ floppy disk and give it to me.  If your name is on the disk, I’ll eventually return it.

Student computer access: Every enrolled student at UHCL is assigned an email account on the university server. For information about receiving your account name and password, call the university help desk at 281 283 2828.

Reassurances: You are not graded on your expertise in electronic media but on your intelligence in reading discussing, and writing about literature. I’ve tried similar email exercises for several semesters; a few students encounter a few problems, but, if we don’t give up, these problems always work out. Your course grade will not suffer for mistakes with email and related issues as long as I see you making a fair effort.