Concordia University Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics     CLAS 240 / HIS 223 Greek History from the Bronze Age to Alexander
	Professor: Alain Cadotte Office location: H-663 Email: [email protected] Office Hours: Mon 16:00 - 17:45

Announcements:

·        (April 3, 2007) information about the FINAL EXAM is now available.

·        (February 27, 2007) Thanks to the anger of the gods (i.e. the power failure), some of you were not able to hand me their essays. Remember that you can hand your paper to the secretary at the CMLL departement (H-663), but do not forget your electronic copy. In those special circonstances, to be sure that nobody will suffer from an unfair situation, lateness will be penalized only after the next class (this Thursday).

·        (February 08, 2007) FAQ - Having been asked many times the same questions, I thought it would be helpful to add some precisions about the mid-term essay :

o       What must be the exact length of the essay? 5-6 pages in 1 ½ line spacing, (font size: 11 or 12).

o       How many texts from the sourcebook are required? At least 10.

o       Is it permitted to use other sources than Crawford and Dunstan? Of course! But you are not forced to do so.

o       How must I refer to the texts in Crawford? You must precise the reference of the ancient text and also the number of the text in the sourcebook; e.g.: the text # 121 in Crawford should be referred to this way: Plutarch, Aristeides 7 (Crawford # 121).

·       (January 19, 2007): On a very interesting website (METIS QTVR), you can see panoramic views of Mycenae, Pylos, Troy, Tiryns, Lefkandi and many other famous Greek sites.

·        (January 11, 2007): Explanations about the mid-term essay are now available.

Textbooks:

·        W. E. Dunstan, Ancient Greece, Hartcourt College Publishers, 2000, 530 p.

·        M. Crawford & D. Whitehead, Archaic and Classical Greece. A Selection of Ancient Sources in Translation, Cambridge University Press, 2002 (1983), 634 p.

Course Description: This course offers a political, social, economic and cultural history of Greece from the Minoan-Mycenaean period in the second millennium to the end of Classical Greek civilization in the fourth century B.C., with special emphasis placed upon Athens.

Evaluation:

·        Essay of 5-6 pages (50%).

·        Final exam (50%).

Late essays and other practical works will be penalized by reduction of one grade point (e.g. From A+ to A) for each day of lateness. Those are calculated from 5:00 p.m. of the day the essay was due. So the first reduction takes place if the essay is not submitted by the end of the lecture on the day the essay was due. No essay or outline will be accepted more than one week after the day it was due. No one will be excused from a lateness penalty because of computer problems. Students using computers are advised to save to a floppy disk in order to avoid the problems associated with “crashes”. Medical or excuses for other emergencies will be granted only if proper documentation is provided. All students should keep copies of the essays they submit in case they are misplaced. Papers submitted only in electronic form will not be graded.

Acceptable essays will clearly indicate which of the assigned topics the students is attempting to answer and must be written in grammatically correct and properly structured English, i.e. in grammatically well formed sentences organized in paragraphs which are parts of a clearly developing argument. Words must be correctly spelled according to English, Canadian or American conventions. All quotations or borrowed material must be acknowledged in footnotes or endnotes correctly conforming to some accepted system of conventions for academic writing. Unacceptable essays will receive no grade and will be returned to the student marked unacceptable. Students submitting plagiarized work or who are detected cheating on assignments will be subject to university discipline. Unacceptable essays may be rewritten and resubmitted once, normally within two weeks of their return to the student.

Schedule of Topics and Readings:

Deadlines

·        February 27: Essay

·        April 13-29: Final Exam

Intellectual Honesty: Papers must be submitted by the end of class on the day they are due in two formats: (1) In class: a word-processed paper hard copy. This is the copy that will be read, commented on, and corrected by the professor before being returned to the student. (2) An electronic text file (preferably in MSWord) to be sent to the instructor’s email address. These electronic texts must be identical in content to the submitted hard copies. They may be submitted to Turnitin.com to verify their originality.

Concordia University defines plagiarism as: "The presentation of the work of another person as one's own or without proper acknowledgment" (Concordia Undergraduate Calendar 2003-2004, page 65). The term Plagiarism comes from the Latin for kidnapper (plagiarius). The "work of another person" can mean:

• An entire work by an author. 
• Ideas taken from a source. 
• Exact words taken from a source--from just a few words to entire passages. 
• The organization or structure of a source’s explanation or argument.
• Information that is not common knowledge taken from a source.

You may never submit an entire work written by someone else. If you use any of the other items listed above, you must include proper acknowledgement. By "proper acknowledgement", we mean:

• When you use ideas or facts taken from a source, you must include a citation. 
• When you take the structure or organization of an argument from a source, you must give credit to and cite the source for the argument. 
• When you use a source’s exact words, you must include BOTH quotation marks around the entire quoted portion AND a citation.

Academic Appeals: Students are urged to take all questions of final grades to the class instructor. In the event that the matter cannot be resolved at that level, students should consult the chair of the Department. For further appeal, students are advised to contact the Associate Dean of Student Affairs.

Statement on Students with Disabilities: Students with permanent or temporary disabilities who would like to discuss classroom or examination accommodations are asked to come and see the instructor as soon as possible. For further information on Concordia’s policies on student accessibility and resources for students in need of accommodation, go to the Office for Students with Disabilities (OSD): http://supportservices.concordia.ca/disabilities/.