Final exam (30%)

Anti-exam guidelines

When and where?

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  • Hybrid option:
    • For presenting your projects to each other: we should have at least one member of your group physically present. They can both present your project and make notes (and take photos, I’ll be taking photos as I did in previous Festives Fayres Of Learning, to post on Canvas afterwards and help you as aide-mémoire) on behalf of your group.
    • Ideally at least two group members, so that one can present and take notes and the second, armed with a laptop or tablet, can act as intermediary between physical and virtual worlds, with other in your group on Zoom, so that you can all ask questions and so on.
    • Zoom = our regular virtual room, https://ubc.zoom.us/j/62605965742?pwd=b0JqM28vT25xWGc5NXpLUlZtc2F2Zz09

[REDUNDANT OUT OF DATE INFORMATION now in italics and struck out

The day, time, and location of the final exam has not yet been announced by UBC. It usually appears half-way through the term–around week 6 or 7–when you log into the Student Service Centre, and also published at https://students.ubc.ca/enrolment/exams/exam-schedule

I’m keeping an eye on that site and will update Canvas information and deadlines once the information is available.

You’ll also have the option of Zooming in.

If the day and time is horrific (ex. weekend early morning or late evening), I’ll poll you to figure out an alternative that works for all of you. Fallback: online using Zoom and Canvas.]

What?

This is a two-stage anti-exam. Part in our scheduled exam time, part in the 24 hours after.

STAGE 1

  • Presentations of final projects by and to the rest of our class
    • Any format/medium, depending on the nature of your final Wonderful Project
    • Here are some examples of poster presentations (and similar) from some previous Romance Studies / Medieval Studies courses’ “festive fair of learning” activities like this course’s anti-exam. I’ve removed photos of students, and please note that these images are NOT to be shared, distributed, etc. and are for reference only, to give you some ideas for what a project might look like and how you might present it):
      • 2010-12, RMST 221
        [redacted]
        (In RMST 221 in 2009 and 2010, students did final presentations as a round-table colloquium—like a conference—and students voted on their favourite talks (nominating at least three); I can’t share presentation slides and videos as I can’t edit out the images and voices of the speakers so as to anonymize them. In 2012, they did a poster presentation session in a Buchanan B room that has the same layout as the room pictured further down.)
      • 2016-18, MDVL 301A and 310D
        [redacted]
      • 2019, RMST 221B
        [redacted]
        some were associated with the class “Local Public Bestiary”: https://blogs.ubc.ca/rmst221b/
    • You WON’T be doing individual/group presentations in front of everyone: you’ll each set up your “stall” on a table (see image of a previous room below) like at a (farmers’, craft, etc.) market, and take it turns to visit each other so that everyone has a chance to see everyone else. For example, first those on the left-hand side will visit those on the right for about 20 minutes, then those on the right visit those on the left for 20 minutes, then we do another 20 minutes of revisiting. Or in three stages (left, right, back), depending on our room. Time is flexible, we can take longer if need be.
  • 30 minutes at the start: set up your projects
  • 1-1.5 hours: poster presentations
  • last 30 minutes: last visits, writing up your notes
  • open book: you may bring whatever you wish with you
  • Please post slides, presentations, etc. at the “upload your wonderful project presentations + info here!” discussion
    • I’ll also add photos from today, for your physical posters and artworks
  • I will grade your presentation out of 10 (subject to upvoting: if lots of students like a project, I’ll move your grade up, for example from a B+ to an A-)

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STAGE 2

  • Comment on AT LEAST THREE other final projects that in your judgement were brilliant, as Romance Wonders and in relation to course themes and set readings
    • commenting on 3 projects: about 1 page / 200-500 words per project
    • you may comment on as many projects as you wish
    • I would also encourage you to list other projects that you thought were wonderful even if you didn’t write about them: this isn’t the destructive evaluation of grading and ranking each other competitively, but the constructive appreciation of lifting each other up. There are no grading limits on this course, nor limits on how many As and A+s your class can have.
    • maximum about 2500 words
  • written work during the scheduled exam time and in the 24 hours after it up to the end of Wednesday
    • if our exam is during a weekend, I’ll add the following Monday, up to 23:59, to that time
  • open book
  • submission: on paper handed in at the end of the anti-exam, OR online here on Canvas
    • text box or video recording or file attachment
    • you can also write in the Canvas Assignment during the exam, and then redraft after, and add as many submissions as you wish while this assignment is open
    • so you have time to write, rewrite, think, …
    • where to submit your work: the Canvas Assignment called “Anti-exam”
  • = 20 points