Course enrollment is capped by the department at 25.
No individual instructor may “blue card” (over-enroll) a student into
English 111. Refer individual
requests to the Chairperson.
Individual instructors may cancel a class session in lieu of individual
conferences, library research, or small-group work.
Individual instructors are the final arbiter of student work. Student complaints about course or paper grades must be
appealed first to the course instructor, within ten days of the start of the
subsequent academic term; only afterwards can an official appeal process begin.
Individual instructors are empowered and encouraged to make use of
whatever readings, pedagogies, materials, and practices best suit their (and
their students’) needs, insofar as their choices demonstrably support the
outcomes listed above under the general course description.
A
Fall 1999 survey of English 111 instructors suggests the following:
On average, instructors require five formal essays per term, but
supplement that requirement with considerable informal writing activities (on
average, some 25 assignments per term, in various forms: journal writing,
exercises, presentations, abstracts, critiques, etc.).
On average, instructors require 25 pages of formal, polished prose
per term. Many require portfolios
of revised work.
All instructors require at least one individual conference per
term, and most require two.
All instructors report a “turnaround time” of one week for
returning graded papers.
University Academic Integrity Policy