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Practicium
In History
History 24.387*
Winter 2002
[Printable Outline]
Coordinator:
Dominique Marshall
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Course Description:
This course consists
of work on a project in a museum or a public institution of historical
research in the Ottawa area conducted under the joint supervision of
one member of the History Department. The work will include documentary
and other research, reading, the writing of reports, and meetings with
the supervisor and the co-ordinator.
The specific projects
will be posted and registration will depend on available spaces and
student interviews. Students should be prepared to devote one day a
week to the project.
Prerequisite: Pass
or Honour history student with a third or fourth year standing and a
B+ or better G.P.A. in history courses or permission of the Department.
We are keen to provide
our best students with some valuable experience in public history. Students
will be doing this for course credit, not for pay, as this is not a
co-op program.
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2.
Textbook:
There are no textbooks
for this course.
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3.
Course Calendar:
The course consists
in 1 day of work per week for the 12 weeks of the semester. Students
will be in weekly contact with the Supervisor on the site and inform
the Co-ordinator in the department of History of their progress on a
monthly basis.
| Jan.
7-11 |
Week 1
Contact with the Coordinator and choice of a possible placement.
Interview
with the Supervisor, on the site of the placement. When the placement
is agreed by the supervisor and the student, the attached "Placement
Form" should be completed by the student, in consultation
with the supervisor(s) on the site of the work. (See attached
template)
Meeting with
the Department of History's Practicum Coordinator to complete
the form.
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| 2.
Jan. 14-18 |
Week 2
First full week of work.
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3-6.
Jan. 21-
Feb. 15 |
Weeks 3 to 6
The following 4 weeks will be as many weeks of work, so that the
student should work the equivalent of 4 days.
Students should
report on their progress to the departmental coordinator at least
once during this period, either by electronic mail of by visiting
during the office hours.
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| Feb.
18-22 |
Winter Break
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Feb.
25-
March 28 |
Weeks 7-11
The following 5 weeks will be as many weeks of work, so that the
student should work the equivalent of 5 days. Students
should report on their progress to the departmental coordinator
at least once during this period, either by electronic mail of
by visiting during the office hours.
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| April
1 to 4 |
Week 12
Students should devote this week to the writing of their report.
Prior
to this, they should schedule an individual meeting with the coordinator,
preferably on Tuesday April 2, between 11:30 and 2:30.
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| April
5 -9 |
Review Week.
The Practicum Report is due to the Coordinator by April 5.
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4.
Course Requirements:
At the beginning of the term, the "Placement Form" (attached)
should be completed; one copy of will be returned to the student, one
will remain with the Co-ordinator, one will be deposited in the student's
file.
The onsite project
will account for 75% of the final mark and is evaluated by the onsite
Supervisor, with the help of the "Evaluation Form" (attached).
In addition, there
will be a written Practicum Report worth 25% marked by the Co-ordinator
of the Department of History. When considerable written work is part
of the project this will serve both as the project and as the academic
component. The length of this paper is 8 to 10 pages and it will take
the form of an essay, a report, didactic text panels or an exhibition
brief, etc., depending on the project. The form of the report will vary
according to the nature of the work and the expectations of the onsite
Supervisor. It will be specified in the "Placement Form".
By April 4, students
are expected to submit two copies of the Practicum Report to the Co-ordinator.
One copy will be returned to the student, and the other will be placed
on file in the Department.
Departmental statement on plagiarism
All written work
required for this and every History course must be untainted by plagiarism.
The University Senate defines plagiarism as "to use and pass off
as one's own idea or product the work of another without expressly giving
credit to another." (Calendar, p. 49) The Department of History
interprets this statement as covering the following practices:
Copying from another person's work without indicating this through appropriate
use of quotation marks and citations in footnotes.
Lengthy and close paraphrasing of another person's work (i.e. extensive
copying interspersed with a few "different" phrases or sentences).
Submitting written work produced by someone else as if it were one's
own work (e.g. another student's term paper, a paper purchased from
a commercial term paper "factory", material downloaded via
the Internet, etc.).
In an academic environment plagiarism is a serious offence, and it is
not a matter that can be dealt with by an informal arrangement between
the student and the instructor. In all cases where plagiarism is suspected,
instructors are now required to notify their departmental Chair, and
the Chair in turn is required to report the matter to the Associate
Dean of the Faculty. The Associate Dean makes a formal investigation
and then decides on an appropriate sanction. Penalties can range from
a mark of zero for the plagiarised work, to a final grade of F for the
course, to suspension from all studies, to expulsion from the University.
(Students should also be aware that the Senate classifies as an instructional
offence the submission of "substantially the same piece of work
to two or more courses without the prior written permission of the instructors...involved.")
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5.
Other Matters
Students with
disabilities
Students with disabilities
requiring academic accommodations in this course are encouraged to contact
a coordinator at the Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities
to complete the necessary letters of accommodation. After registering
with the PMC, make an appointment to meet and discuss your needs with
me at least two weeks prior to the first in-class test or itv midterm
exam. This is necessary in order to ensure sufficient time to make the
necessary arrangements. Please note the deadline for submitting completed
forms to the Paul Menton Centre for formally scheduled exam accommodations
is March 8, 2002 for winter term courses.
Forms
Please find annexed
to the outline the templates for the Placement Form and the Evaluation
Form, which will be used at the beginning and at the end of the term
respectively.
Placement
Form (Link)
Evaluation Form (Link)
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