Humanities Department Academic Integrity Procedure
The Humanities Department requires instructors to check for academic integrity violations. Most instructors use www.turnitin.com. All written assignments of 500+ words will be checked for academic integrity violations. Additionally, all instructors will make the originality reports available prior to the due date, and students will be able to alter the paper until the due date. All written material must be the product of the student’s original work, created specifically for this class. Papers written for other classes (including previous attempts of this course) will not be accepted without the express permission of the instructor.
Upon Completion of the course students should be able to:
- To demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities.
- To understand those works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context.
- To respond critically to works in the arts and humanities.
- To develop an appreciation for the aesthetic principles that guide or govern the humanities and arts.
- To demonstrate knowledge of the influence of literature, philosophy, and/or the arts on intercultural experiences.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will:
- Identify key ideas, representative authors and works, significant historical or cultural events, and characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed in the literature of different periods or regions.
- Analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values within the social, political, cultural, or religious contexts of different literary periods.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the development of characteristic forms or styles of expression during different historical periods or in different regions.
- Articulate the aesthetic principles that guide the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities.
- Write research-based critical papers about the assigned readings in clear and grammatically correct prose, using various critical approaches to literature.
Course Requirements and Methods of Evaluation:
- Instructors will provide each student with a course syllabus and an outline of the course which includes departmental requirements and the specific requirements of the individual instructor.
- The requirements for the course include but are not limited to the following:
- All students must read one long work of literature
- All instructors must administer a mid-term and a final where there are essay and objective components
- All students must write the minimum of 2000 to 3000 words in which they complete at least one analysis of at least four pages (approx. 1500 words) using scholarly research. This portion of the required work must be at least 25% of the final grade.
Communication (COM), Critical Thinking (CT), Personal Responsibility (PR), Social Responsibility (SR)
ADA Statement:
Any student with a documented disability (e.g. learning, psychiatric, vision, hearing, etc.) may contact the Office on the Weatherford College Weatherford Campus to request reasonable accommodations. Phone: 817-598-6350 Office Location: Office Number 118 in the Student Services Building, upper floor. Physical Address: Weatherford College 225 College Park Drive Weatherford, TX.