{"id":23,"date":"2020-01-21T11:18:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T11:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2025-09-04T18:14:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T18:14:47","slug":"course-policies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/course-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Learning Objectives<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In this class, students will learn to:<\/p>\n<p>1. Develop historical perspectives<br \/>\n2. Express themselves clearly<br \/>\n3. Locate relevant information<br \/>\n4. Identify key historical issues and debates<br \/>\n5. Support plausible historical arguments.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<h3><strong>Attendance &amp; Participation<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Attendance is expected and participation will be evaluated. Those who miss class for any reason MUST submit a short reflection (about a paragraph or two) analyzing the missed reading assignment within a week of the absence. Students who are late for class SHOULD submit reflections to help mitigate any penalties for disruption. These reflections will be evaluated but not graded. Students may also choose to submit VOLUNTARY reflections before or after class discussions to help supplement their participation effort and to practice writing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/2021\/09\/03\/sample-reflection\/\">Model reflection with some \u201chow-to\u201d tips<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Electronics<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>No personal electronic devices such as phones, tablets or laptops can be used in this class\u00a0except in rare cases with special permission in advance from Prof. Pinsker.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Accommodations for Disabilities<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Dickinson values diverse types of learners and is committed to ensuring that each student is afforded equitable access to participate in all learning experiences. If you have (or think you may have) a learning difference or a disability \u2013 including a mental health, medical, or physical condition\u2013 that would hinder your access to learning or demonstrating knowledge in this class, please contact Access and Disability Services (ADS). They will confidentially explain the accommodation request process and the type of documentation that Dean and Executive Director Marni Jones will need to determine your eligibility for reasonable accommodations. To learn more about available supports, go to www.dickinson.edu\/ADS, email access@dickinson.edu, call (717)245-1734, or go to the ADS office in Room 005 of Old West, Lower Level (aka \u201cthe OWLL\u201d). If you\u2019ve already been granted accommodations at Dickinson, please follow the guidance at www.dickinson.edu\/AccessPlan for disclosing the accommodations for which you are eligible and scheduling a meeting with me as soon as possible so that we can discuss your accommodations and finalize your Access Plan. If you will be using any test-taking accommodations in this class, be sure to enter all test dates into your Access Plan in advance of our meeting. ADS will be happy to provide any assistance you may need.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Writing Center Visit<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>All students should visit the Norman M. Eberly Multilingual Writing Center to support their writing assignments for this course. \u00a0Writers of all levels and abilities need feedback in order to develop their ideas and grow as writers.\u00a0 Dickinson\u2019s trained writing tutors can help you generate ideas, begin drafting, revise a rough draft, figure out your professor\u2019s preferred documentation style, understand and respond to professor feedback, edit your writing \u2013 among other things.\u00a0 \u00a0For more information about hours and procedures, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dickinson.edu\/info\/20158\/writing_program\/2829\/the_norman_m_eberly_multilingual_writing_center\">Writing Center online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Plagiarism and Artificial Intelligence (AI)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>See the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/files\/2025\/09\/Handout-Plagiarism.pdf\">Handout on Plagiarism<\/a> <\/strong>at the Methods Center as well as the blog post on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/seminar-digitalhumanities\/reading-topics-2\/topic-8-plagiarism-2-0\/\">Plagiarism 2.0<\/a>.\u00a0 Also note that these standards apply fully to AI-generated text, which is not allowed.\u00a0 Students should do their own work, including brainstorming, researching, reading, writing, and editing.\u00a0 And in the few instances where help is appropriate, they should always acknowledge outside assistance whether from humans or machines. For more details on the dangers of using AI to \u201cassist\u201d in historical writing assignments, see this post on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/artificial-intelligence-or-fake-intelligence\/\">Artificial Intelligence or Fake Intelligence?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>From Dickinson College Community Standards (adopted 2006):<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To plagiarize is to use without proper citation or acknowledgment the words, ideas, or work of another.\u00a0 Plagiarism is a form of cheating that refers to several types of unacknowledged borrowing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The most serious degree of plagiarism involves the wholesale and deceptive borrowing of written material from sources such as published authors, web sites, other students, or paper-for-hire services.\u00a0 Students who submit papers or significant sections of papers that they did not write themselves are committing this type of violation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Another serious degree of plagiarism involves less wholesale but still repeated and inappropriate borrowing from outside sources.\u00a0 In some of these cases, students borrow several phrases or sentences from others, and do so without both quotation marks and proper attributions.\u00a0 In other cases, students secretly collaborate on assignments in defiance of specific prohibitions outlined by their instructor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, there is a degree of plagiarism that involves the borrowing of specific words or phrases without quotation marks. In such cases, citations may be present, but they are inadequate. This problem most commonly occurs when students paraphrase sources by attempting to change a few words in a sentence or brief series of sentences.\u00a0 It can also occur when students rely too heavily on parents or friends for ideas or phrases which they mistakenly claim as their own.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning Objectives In this class, students will learn to: 1. Develop historical perspectives 2. Express themselves clearly 3. Locate relevant information 4. Identify key historical issues and debates 5. Support plausible historical arguments. 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