Please refer to the current acadmic calendar for important dates/deadlines. This will assist you in preparing your syllabus. Other items you will need to include on your syllabus are: course description or purpose (this may include learning objectives), office hours and location, department phone number and your email address, course requirements, attendance policy, make up exam policy, class schedule/outline including assignments and dates of exams. The syllabus should also include a statement about plagiarism and its consequences. Final exam date must follow date and time in printed schedule.
With the exception of the large "supersections," all faculty are expected to require some writing assigments in their classes. These writing assignments might include research papers, book reviews, interpretive essays etc... Midterm and final exams should not be exclusively multiple choice; some essay questions should be included on the exams.
Students must have reasonable access to faculty members outside of regular class meetings. Faculty members are thus expected to maintain at least one and a half regular office hours per week. If students cannot meet at regularly scheduled hours, or if a student's physical disability prohibits a student from coming to a faculty member's office, the faculty member should make every reasonable effort to meet the student at a mutually convenient time and place. Faculty should post office hours by the first day of each term. Office location and hours should be printed on the syllabus of each course and kept on file with the departmental staff.
If it is necessary to cancel class for a legitimate reason, please inform the Department Chair and make alternate arrangements for the class. There are graduate assistants who may be able to show a film, for example.
Please consult the current UAB Catalog regarding grading policies, final examinations, and student conduct etc...
CLASS MATERIAL FOR FALL 2006:
1. Class syllabi and any other class materials you need duplicated for the first week of class must be submitted by August 1st.
2. After the first week of classes, please submit your photocopying requests at least 3 working days prior to the date you will need the material. We cannot do last-minute duplicating.
3. Please have students bring blue books or other paper for writing assignments. The department cannot provide this paper.
4. Also, if you plan to use audio-visual equipment, please reserve the equipment on the form behind the secretary's desk. You are responsible for getting and returning the key to the room and setting up equipment. Please do not ask the staff to do this for you.
5. Please remove materials from you mailbox each time you come to the office. We do not have enough space in the mail bins for old mail, brochures, books, catalogs, etc...
If you have any questions, please contact Tamekka at 934-5634, or Dr. Keitt at 934-7083.
