Course
Description | Course Calendar
Course Requirements | Bibliography
Course
Requirements
There
will be one final examination worth 40% of the final mark; and two
essays worth respectively 25% and 35% of the final mark.
Students
will write two essays of 5 to 6 pages each on two of the 11 themes
of the classes. The first essay should pertain to one of the themes
between 2 and 6, the other to one of the themes between 7 and 12.
Students will choose their theme on the first week. Students interested
in writing a long paper on other sources should consult with the instructor
during the first week of class.
On
the week of the lecture devoted to their theme, they should have a
draft of their paper ready. They will be asked specifically to contribute
well to the discussion on the documents that day.
The
essays will be due at the beginning of the lecture on the meeting
of the week following the date of the meeting devoted to the theme.
The
essays should make full use of the readings of the coursepack, of
the events and interpretations mentioned in class. In addition, they
should make use of at least one of the books on the history of human
rights mentioned in the bibliography. Students are encouraged to verify
with the instructor which reading would be the most appropriate.
Please
keep a copy of your assignments. Late papers will be penalised by
5% of the mark per day, unless students have provided a legitimate
reason for the delay.
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.")
top
