ANCIENT GREEK MYTH

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CLASSICS 28: EXAMS Summer Sessions 2008

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There are two exams:

Mid-term: Monday 28 July- in class (one hour, 2.00 - 3.00: one hour regular class follows)
Final: Thursday 14 August - in class, full two hours

Mid-term: counted in towards the Final Grade if positive, ignored if negative. I.e. I do not do an automatic averaging out of mid-term and final for the exam component of your grade, but if your grade for either or both the questions on the mid-term is superior to your grade for either or both the first two questions of the Final, I will at least average in the mid-term grade(s). If you do better on the Final than on the mid-term (and approximately 80% of the class do), the mid-term will be ignored and not factored in at all.

Note 1: the mid-term has two questions, the final three. The mid-term overlaps the final on the first two questions of the final, but not the third, so mid-term credit applies only to the first two questions of the final.

Note 2: factoring in the mid-term means just that: everyone is required to take the final, and there is no option for substituting the mid-term.

Both exams without books or notes.

NOTES

1. The Mid-Term will consist in two questions:

(a) 'IDs': c.24 terms, names, concepts etc. from which to choose 3 for comment;

(b) two or three text-passages from primary sources: choose one for comment.

[The passages will mostly be drawn from texts on the assigned list but may also come from 'off-list' texts; in each case, though, the material will be mainstream and familiar. The object of the 'passages' question is not so much to quizz you on assigned reading as to give you an opportunity to discuss material that is central and important to a study of Greek Myth.]

2. The Final will consist in three questions:

(a) and (b) as on the Mid-Term, and

(c) c. 8 essay topics from which to choose one.

3. There will be choice on each of the exams. If you develop and pursue interests outside of, or away from, the main curriculum and reading schedule you will have plenty of opportunity to show off your knowledge, reading and thinking, and the work you have been doing. You will not be at a disadvantage for having read outside the 'assigned' texts! The intention of the exams is to give you the opportunity to show: what, and how widely, you have been reading; how thoughtfully you have been reading; how carefully you have been reading; how well you have thought about the underlying significance of the material and about how the 'language' of Greek Myth actually works.

4. The Final will cover course material from the whole six weeks (not just the material since the Mid-Term).

5. In both the Mid-Term and the Final each question will be graded separately - i.e. after the Mid-Term everyone will get their exams back with two grades on it, one for each question, and the Final will be recorded with three grades. It is important, therefore, to try to do justice to each of the questions, and I recommend that you try to allocate an equal amount of time and effort to each question.

6. Both exams will be done without reference to notes or books. Please use blue-books if at all possible, and do not forget to write your NAME and STUDENT ID on the outside of each blue-book used. (If you have to use individual sheets of paper instead of a blue-book, be sure to put your name and ID on the top of each sheet.)

7. No electronic devices of any kind are permitted during the exams. This includes: cell phones, PDAs, iPods, iPhones, CD players, laptops, blackberries, blueberries etc. etc. .... Any electronic devices in evidence during the exams will be confiscated till after the exam.

Please help us by writing as clearly as possible!

[Final Grades: Paper: c.35%, Exams: c.65%]

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