SPRING 2026
Writing Assignment 3: Primary Source Analysis
- Mon, Feb 2, 9am: Draft Due
- Mon, Feb 16, 9am: Revision Due
Writing Assignment 4: Research Paper
- Mon, Feb 23, 9am: Topic Due
- Mon, Mar 16, 9am: D-Draft Due
- Mon, Mar 30, 9am: C-Draft Due
- Mon, Apr 20, 9am: B-Draft Due
- Mon, May 4, 9am: Paper Due
Commentary 3
- Mon, Mar 2, 9am: Draft Due
Commentary 4
- Mon, Apr 27, 9am: Draft Due
Spring Portfolio
- Sat, May 9-Wed, May 13: Portfolio Meeting
- Wed, May 13, 5pm: Final Portfolio Due
AI POLICY
Do not use generative AI tools for this course–not for summarizing readings, not for writing questions or responses, not for writing assignments.
We are going to start the course without any AI, because we want to be involved in the messy work of being humans approaching the ideas of other humans. Our thinking necessitates that we do our own reading and writing, even when we get it “wrong.”
If and when there is an appropriate use of AI for this course, it will be very clear to you and announced as such within an assignment. Otherwise, your default should be to not use it for anything course-related.
ASSESSMENT BREAKDOWN
Grade 1: Portfolio (More detailed breakdown of the fall portfolio below)
Fall portfolio: 40%
Spring portfolio: 60%
Grade 2: Fall
Paper 1: 20%
Paper 2: 30%
*Participation, including low-stakes assignments (Moodle posts, campus commentaries):
Section 1: 25%
Section 2: 25%
Grade 3: Spring
Paper 3: 10% (or 15%)
Paper 4 (research): 40% (or 35%)
*Participation, including low-stakes assignments (Moodle posts, campus commentaries):
Section 1: 25%
Section 2: 25%
Deatailed breakdown of Fall Portfolio (40% of portfolio grade) breakdown:·
- A draft “about” page with directions for your readers and an acknowledgements/rights section (5 pts.)
- include references & examples from each unit & at least 6 plenary lectures or presentations
- include at least two images of pages from your black Humanities notebook (or your similar writing space; we hope it’s your Humanities notebook) with notes about the humanities and the Humanities
- Your Key Terms Journal (20 pts.)
- Revised Paper 1 (5 pts.)
- Revised Paper 2 (5 pts.)
- Two campus commentaries; polished based on feedback. (15 pts.)
- A revised and expanded version of one of your submitted notecards or reading annotations from each unit (5 pts.)
- Something new (creative, reflective, analytical, exegetical, hermeneutic, discursive, performative) by you that is a text; connect this to your experience in our course. (10 pts.)
- Something new by you that is not a text (image or images, audio, video, performance, etc.); connect this to your experience in our course (10 pts.)
- Conversation/portfolio review (20 pts.)