REQUIREMENTS FOR PSYCH 199
Everyone
will be expected to complete the following REQUIREMENTS:
- Reading assignments. We can only have interesting and
exciting discussions if you do ALL of the reading in advance.
- (20%)--Three days (72 hours) prior to each class, each of
you will be required to submit (on Pitzer's
Sakai Web Site), at least two questions you thought of while
doing the readings. Among the purposes of these questions is to help
the student who will be leading the discussion 3 days later to prepare
for that task. The quality of these questions will be evaluated--by
both me and the discussion leader--for their ability to spark discussion as well as for the extent to
which they offer evidence that ALL
of the readings were actually completed.
- (30%)--One or two (depending on enrollment) turns as
discussion leader. Being the discussion leader will entail finding--and
assigning--two or three articles on your chosen topic (20 - 25 pages
maximum). These articles must be approved by me,
and can be review chapters from edited books or empirical articles from
research journals (examples of acceptable journals include, but are not
limited to: Child Development, Developmental Science, Infant
Behavior and Development, Infancy, Developmental Psychobiology,
Developmental Review, and Developmental Psychology).
Either way, plan to have an electronic copy (in PDF file-format) to me
by 12:00 p.m. one week before your presentation. In addition, be
prepared to tell your classmates on that day what
they will need to know as they read the material you're assigning. Your
grade on this section will be jointly determined as a function of both
your presentation and your chosen assignments.
- (30%)--A final short paper that further considers one of
the topics covered during the semester.
THIS PAPER WILL BE DUE ON THE FINAL DAY OF CLASS.
(Please note: I will consider any collection of 4 or more consecutive,
unquoted
words taken from another source to be plagiarism. Any paper
containing any plagiarized content will receive an automatic grade of
F.)
- (20%)--Class attendance and participation.
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