Course Policies

If this is the first time you have logged onto the class web site and it is past the second week of classes we recommend you drop this class and take it another semester. Beginning class work two weeks late puts you at a great disadvantage and will hurt your grade.

Ethical Conduct:  Ethical conduct means finding and writing your own answers to class discussion questions, researching and writing your own writing assignment, and relying solely on your on memory to answer test questions.  Ethical conduct also means treating people with respect and obeying the law.   Students who engage in unethical conduct may, at the option of the instructor, receive an “F” grade for the course.

Assessment Policies:

All quizzes, quests and tests are "closed book", closed CD and closed notes.  (See above.)

All quizzes, including the Final, can be taken at home, or where ever you are using a computer to complete this course. You do not need a proctor for any exam or quiz.

Questions and answers will not be released for any reason.

Make-Up Policy

This class is designed to cater to the needs of our students, who often have families, who work, who lead complex lives. Our students experience medical emergencies, the death of a loved one, go on honeymoons and so on.

We have built in enormous flexibility to accommodate these various issues that might arise, including:

A. Detailed syllabus with 100% of course requirements on Day One so students can plan and work ahead.
B. Quizzes open all day for a full week, giving you time to fit a quiz in your schedule.
C. You may take each quiz twice and your higher score will be recorded.
D.Two lowest quiz scores are dropped, so if you must miss a quiz you'll be okay.
E. Plenty of opportunities to earn points in the discussions, so you can miss several without detriment to your grade.
F. The major writing assignment, Archaeology in the News, can be completed at any time up until 3/4th of the way through the semester.
G. Extra credit is available through the Whose Mummy Is It? Quests

Therefore, we do not offer make-up or additional extra credit opportunities. Each semester we have as many as 100 students. With 8 quizzes and many discussions and writing assignments to grade, you can imagine our resources would be quickly overwhelmed if even half the class needed make-ups or rescheduled quizzes at one point or another.

Please visit the University's Academic Freedom and Honor Policies:
You can download a pfd from the link found on this page: http://www.usu.edu/aa/faculty/syllabus_resources.cfm.

The policy is in sections 403.2.1, 403.2.2, and 403.3.1, while procedures for students to follow for an accommodation request are in section 403.4.

If a student has a disability that will likely require some accommodation, the student must inform the instructor and provide documentation through the Disability Resource Center (DRC). Any requests for special consideration must be discussed with and approved by the instructor during the first week of class. In cooperation with the DRC, course materials can be provided in alternative formats.