Our sessions are a fluid mix of\u2014to translate other academic areas\u2019 categories\u2014lectures, discussion, and workshops. Classes are at the scheduled time and are for live active interactive work with student peers, guided by your instructor.<\/p>\n
Attendance and active participation are part of your learning and expected. They will also help you to make friends and create your own community, an important part of a university education as a whole.<\/p>\n
Your weekly assignments might include \u00a0…<\/p>\n
Our course is designed to expect on average around 8 hours’ work per week of you. Some weeks will be heavier: the start of term, when everything is very new including navigating the online set-up; weeks when you are doing more work revising for and taking a quiz or the final exam. Other weeks should be lighter, and with a different working pattern.<\/p>\n
Here’s where that “8 hours” came from:<\/p>\n
As full-time academic work, a UBC undergraduate full course load of five 3-credit courses per term should mean 40 hours per week, so you should expect to be working on each course for on average 8 hours per week. For our course, that translates to 3 scheduled hours plus around 5 hours per week; or, 1 hour every day during the week, and 1-2 days off, for example at the weekend.<\/p>\n
(Try to have at least one day’s rest every week. Please. I know that’s often difficult, and I sympathise if it’s hard for you to do. Even two half-days. Listen to some music in a Romance language, while snoozing or while outdoors: a whole album or a whole opera, for example. There’s a lot online for free, via YouTube and Project Gutenberg for example.)<\/p>\n
Regular attendance is expected of students in all their classes (including lectures, laboratories, tutorials, seminars, etc.). Students who neglect their academic work and assignments may be excluded from final examinations. Students who are unavoidably absent because of illness or disability should report to their instructors on return to classes. Any request for academic concession must be clearly expressed (see Academic Concession<\/a>).<\/p>\n Students may not, concurrently with their University attendance, take studies for university degree credit through any other institution by correspondence, evening or regular session class without the approval of the dean of the faculty in which they are studying at the University.<\/p>\n The University reserves the right to limit attendance, and to limit the registration in, or to cancel or revise, any of the courses listed. Information concerning limitations on attendance for the various faculties and schools is found in the faculty and school entries.<\/p>\n Regular attendance and participation are expected of students in all their classes. Students missing 40% or more of their classes<\/strong>, regardless of whether their absences are avoidable or unavoidable may be considered unable to meet the \u201clearning outcomes\u201d of the course and may, on the recommendation of the course instructor, coordinator, or the Head of the department, be excluded by the Dean from the <\/strong>final examination<\/span><\/a>. Students who are unavoidably absent because of illness or disability should report to their instructors on return to classes. Any request for academic concession must be clearly expressed<\/p>\n We’ll be using Canvas Discussions for discussion in class and afterwards.<\/p>\n Writing or recording a substantive discussion post is challenging, but it does not have to be difficult. Substantive discussion posts should be based on what you have learned in the course. You can also relate to outside resources and your lived personal experience, ideas, opinion, critical judgement, imagination, and thinking and being in general. Your posts can be either original reply to the given topic or extensive commentary on another student’s posting. You may also include questions to stimulate discussion.<\/p>\n We may also use Canvas Chat too, during and between discussions.<\/p>\n (25% of your final grade)<\/p>\n By the end of the week in question, please:<\/p>\nFHIS<\/h3>\n
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