LATN 112-02 Spring 2001

OFFICE: DI-107—Dickson, 1st floor, lefthand hallway on leaving elevator.

HOURS: M 11:00-11:30; W 8:00-9:00; 11:00-11:30; or just drop by anytime, or call to make an app't if you don't find me.

PHONE: (973) 655-7078 (OFFICE)
(973) 655-4419 (SEC'Y)

Current students: Call me at home using the number supplied in class.

E-MAIL: husseins@mail.montclair.edu

REQUIRED TEXTS—

Ecce Romani Parts IA & IB, Longman, 2nd ed.

EVALUATION—

30% for regularly scheduled bi-weekly quizzes

20% for homework (online computer exercises)

20% for classwork, including attendance, participation

30% for Final Exam

ATTENDANCE & ASSIGNMENTS—
Regular attendance and preparation for class are essential in an elementary language course.

QUIZZES—
You can expect to have a quiz every other week. One quiz grade will be dropped. Students may 'retake' quizzes, but this must be done outside of class—during instructor's office hours, or at another time if this can be scheduled. The instructor will normally be available most of the day on one day a week for this purpose.

Makeup quizzes will be similar, but not identical, to the original. Quizzes may be retaken up to twice during the two weeks following the original quiz, unless a student has achieved a grade of A or A- on the quiz or a makeup. The final, recorded grade for each quiz will be an average of the original quiz and all retakes. This means that if you miss a quiz and then retake it and get an A, your final grade for that quiz will be 2.0, or (0.0+4.0)/2

E-MAIL ADDRESS—
REQUIRED. If you do not have another email account, sign up for an ALPHA ID. You may also wish to take advantage of the MSU-ISP, a free internet account that gives you access to many restricted online databases from home. It takes about three minutes to activate or reactivate an Alpha account. Go to any lab, telnet to ALPHA.montclair.edu. You can use any telnet program (QVT, Better Telnet, NCSA Telnet, etc.), or telnet from Netscape.

When you get to ALPHA, sign in as STUDENT. At the menu, choose (1). There are complete, detailed directions at the following link:

http://www.is.montclair.edu/Alpha/Creating.Accounts.html

WEBCT—
Your instructor has already entered you into our WebCT module, and will tell you what ID and password to use the first time you log in. If you were in this section last semester, you may (or may not) find that you have a new identity. Go to your MyWebCT page and choose “Add Course.”

If you are new to WebCT, you will have to go to the Course Listing the first time you log in. Get directions below

http://blake.montclair.edu/~husseins/sbhWebCTdirections.html

or follow the “WEBCT INFO” link at the end of your professor’s page:

http://blake.montclair.edu/~husseins/sbhWebCTdirections.html

COMPUTER DRILLS & WEBCT—
Some translation exercises will be available on disks or in the Language Lab (Dickson 178), but most of the drills are on-line, in the WebCT module. See above.

WebCT drills can be done over again as many times as the student wishes. The grading is set up so that only your best attempt on each drill will count. You must get your average one set of drills up to a certain point before the next set will become available.

You will do best in the course if you repeat most of the drills until you can do each one without consulting the book or another source.

DEPARTMENT POLICY—
It is the policy of the Department of Classics and General Humanities that to pass a course a student must meet all the requirements of that course satisfactorily. Students who attend class regularly, are consistently prepared, and learn to ask for help at the first sign of trouble, almost always progress well in this course.