Quizzes may occur at the beginning or ending of any class, or both. If you will have to leave class early for an unavoidable reason, always inform the teacher or the TA ahead of time, or your quiz will not be counted. (Valid excuses include illnesses, family emergencies, etc., but not just being busy.) You are responsible for contacting the teaching assistant immediately upon your return to make up the quiz when you have an excused absence make-ups for absences which occurred for a longer time in the past will not be allowed.

If you have a valid excuse for not coming to class, talk to me or the TA so that you can make up the quiz later. For that reasonвЂ“and because such behavior is disruptive and rudeвЂ“students are not allowed to come to class just to take the quiz and leave. The quizzes are also a method of measuring class participation, including attendance. Anyone failing or not taking more than 20 of the quizzes will receive in вЂњFвЂќ in the course. The traditional standard of a minimum of two hours of homework outside of class for each hour in class should be adequate for most students, but a quick skimming will definitely not be adequate for this class.Д«ecause the quizzes are the most accurate gauge of your participation in the class, you must pass a minimum number of them. Some of these topics will be covered in more detail in lecture others you are expected to learn from your reading alone. Students who are exceptionally curious and ambitious for high grades will also want to read the optional readings and prepare answers to the questions linked to them. The answers to the remaining questions you are expected to be able to use in writing answers on the three large examinations. For purposes of the daily quizzes, you should have memorized answers to the five questions for that dayвЂ™s assignment which are marked with an asterisk before coming to class. They should make studying the text much easier. There may seem to be a lot to learn, but these questions are in fact intended to help you narrow your focus down to the issues and facts which your professor feels are most important. These will be simple, short-answer questions for the most part, normally selected from the questions listed with that dayвЂ™s reading assignment. Together they count as much as one of the large exams (each is worth a little more than half a point). No one religion is privileged: all are studied as valuable ways to understand the human experience.Д«ecause this course covers far too much varied material to make it reasonable to base grades entirely on the large exams, there will be daily quizzes which will also test your memory of the reading material. We study the great world religions not to convert anyone to or from any of them but to provide the basic information that is necessary to understand both our human past and present. Whereas in modern secular society religion tends to be compartmentalized as a largely private sphere set apart from normal concerns, in ancient times religion was often the organizing principle which gave shape to social patterns, the arts, government, law, the economy, and practically every other aspect of life. Some students are surprised to find that the course deals very heavily with religion. You will be asked to memorize very few dates but you will be expected to trace and compare concepts across various civilizations. We will be emphasizing cultural themes and patterns rather than events and chronologies. This means that the literature, architecture, art, and music portions are not merely supplementary, but an essential part of the core of the course. WSU has specified that this course should be granted credit half as a social science course and half as a humanities and arts course. Please note that this is not a traditional history course. Although students are allowed to take 111 without having taken 110 first, it is greatly to your benefit to follow the logical sequence.

It is a two-semester course of which 110 is the first semester. World Civilizations is designed to achieve several goals: 1) familiarize students with basic facts of geography, history, and culture that every educated person needs to know to be an informed citizen of the world, 2) provide a foundation for later courses in many fields which assume such general knowledge, 3) illustrate the rich variety of ways that human beings have found of living in civilizations and 4) stimulate your curiosity to learn more. World History to 1800 (4th edition) (supplementary text)

Reading About the World, Volume 1 (3rd edition) (core text) Paul Brians is retired and this course is no longer offered by WSU. Note: This syllabus is presented here as a historical document only.

World civilization 2 online