Program Requirements

For full credit, students will demonstrate excellent attendance and full participation in all program activities. Everyone will complete essay responses to readings, a Fall Annotated Bibliography, and a Winter research-based magazine article on a related historical topic. In the Spring, a creative/expressive project relating to fall and winter themes will be completed. Your portfolio, at the end of each quarter, will include all your work: essay responses, reflective writing, lecture notes, project drafts and final copies, self-evaluation and faculty evaluation.

A Note About Plagiarism

We will follow the college policy as stated in The Evergreen State College Student Advising Handbook regarding academic honesty. The Handbook states:

"Academic Honesty -- Academic honesty is a necessity in a learning community. It makes coherent discourse possible and is a necessary condition for all sharing, dialogue and evaluation. All forms of academic dishonesty including cheating, fabricating, facilitating academic dishonesty and plagiarism are violations of the Social Contract (see page 15). Cheating is defined as using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information or study aids in any academic exercise. Fabrication is defined as faking data, footnotes or other evidence. Plagiarism is defined as representing the works or ideas of another as one's own in any academic exercise. It includes, but is not limited to, copying materials directly, failure to cite sources of arguments and data and failure to explicitly acknowledge joint work or authorship of assignments.

Your academic program often provides a covenant that sets out the roles and responsibilities of the members of your learning community. It may include possible penalties and procedures for appeal to the deans. Penalties for violation of the standards of academic honesty may be severe, such as expulsion from programs or even the college."