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HUM 3306: History of Ideas--The Age of Enlightenment to the Age of Anxiety
Summer 2012
REQUIRED EXAM#1
The previous Practice Exam’s grade does not count. This one does.
It will cover everything in first week: e-texts,
the readings, and my lectures. YOU NEED TO HAVE FINISHED LOCKE! It
does not cover Equiano!
This online Exam#1 is required and together with Exam#2 and Exam#3 later in
the semester equals a total of 25% of your course grade (each worth 33% of
the 25%, regardless of the number of questions asked). There will be
20 questions on this exam; most students finish it well within the 1-hour
allotted time.
After each exam is taken, I carefully look at performance patterns to make
sure there were no inadvertent faulty/unfair questions. I do not
curve scores, but do adjust as necessary by throwing out “bad” questions,
if the performance pattern reveals such (e.g., if the top quartile of
students do not get the “bad” question around 70% of the time). So,
please be reassured, although there will be a mix of easy and hard
questions, I conduct a post-exam review to weed out exam-question outliers
should there be any.
You get to Exam#1 by clicking on the “Assessment” icon on the far
left of the Blackboard menu. It will be available for taking between
May 19th Saturday 9:00pm & May 21st 11:59pm.
You must answer the questions within an allotted 1-hour time period.
Once you start, the clock begins to tick and cannot be turned off.
And you must save your answers and submit the exam 1 minute before
midnight; otherwise the Blackboard system turns your exam into a rotten
pumpkin.
Once the window time period
for taking the exam closes, you should be able to go back to the exam, by
clicking on “My Grades,” then your Exam, and then see your score as well
as, at the end of most questions, an explanation of correct/incorrect
answers.
You are not expected to memorize dates or bullet-list type information in
the Wikis. But some of the questions will test your understanding of
the basic historical contexts (the course is called “History of Ideas”!)
provided by the Wikis. Do not read my “Prof.” lectures at your own
risk!
Only extraordinary, documented emergencies will be accepted for a Make-up
Exam. Prudence (fancy professor word!) would dictate you have a
back-up computer plan (an FIU library or computer lab, Kinko’s, a friend’s,
etc.) should your dog decide to eat your computer.
Should there be some major glitch with the Blackboard testing system:
please do not email me individually. Use the “General Topic” posting
area (right below the area where you filled-in your mini-autobios.) in the
Discussion area of the Blackboard menu. That way, all students will see
that the glitch has been noted.
All best on this and whatever tests you are taking this term, yours,
Prof. Harvey
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