Your Instructor
Course Schedule
Assignments and Grading
Required Materials
Miscellany
100
This is the building where your instructor's office (and your classroom) is located
What is Witherspoon?
100
These are the dates and times of our normal class meetings
What is MWF from 2:30 - 3:50?
100
The Chemical Autobiography is the first one of three this semester.
What are the formal/major writing assignments?
100
This is the online course management system that most of your WWC classes use
What is Moodle?
100
This is your instructor's final note in the syllabus.
What is "My goal is for you to succeed"?
200
This is the best way to communicate with your instructor outside of class
What is email?
200
During the semester, there will be this many service trips. (Note that class will run until about 5pm on these days).
What is four
200
This is the due date of the first e-Portfolio reflection
What is this coming Monday? (Bonus--name the topic)
200
This is the electronic Portfolio management system (website) that we use
What is TaskStream
200
For safety reasons, you must wear this at all times in this building
What is footwear?
300
Your instructor has an "open door policy" regarding these
What are Office Hours?
300
This is where we will go for our service trips during the semester
What is the Dr. John Wilson Community Garden (in Black Mountain)?
300
This assignment, due Week 5, is worth 5% of your grade
What is the Scavenger Hunt?
300
You should wear work clothes and bring a camera to these events
What are Service Trips?
300
All unexcused absences will cause this amount of penalty to your final grade.
What is 1%?
400
You instructor earned a PhD in this subject
What is Organic Chemistry?
400
Next week (Week 1), this is the first day our Seminar will meet
What is Wednesday? (Bonus: Give the reason that it's not Monday.)
400
This is the maximum grade you can earn if you skip a major assignment
What is a D?
400
These are the three texts for this course
What are "Napoleon's Buttons", "The Botany of Desire", and "The Lost Language of Plants"?
400
This is what you should do if you will miss class for a legitimate reason
What is email your professor in advance--and as soon as possible. (Bonus--Name the reasons that I would require a note from the Health Center.)
500
As an undergraduate, your instructor Minored in this subject
What is Japanese?
500
These are scheduled for the last week of class
What are oral presentations?
500
This is the topic of your first e-Portfolio reflection
What is my admissions essay?
500
You are required to have these two senses in order to do well in this course
What is a sense of curiosity and a sense of humor?
500
These are two (of the three) examples of academic dishonesty
What is 1) Turning in work that is not your own 2) Enabling someone else to turn in work that is not her or his own 3) Not giving clear and accurate credit to the originator of materials you use