ENGL 309C
Course Schedule
| Week | Module | Readings and Other Assigned Material | Activities and Assignments | End/Due Date | Weight (%) |
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Week 1 |
Module 1: Introduction |
Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition. Pages 3-24. (Textbook). |
Introduce Yourself |
Sunday, September 8, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Ungraded |
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Review Group Project topics |
Sunday, September 8, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Ungraded | |||
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Week 2 |
Module 2: Semiotics, Language, and Discourse (Saussure and Peirce) |
Groups for Discussions will be created by Technical Support |
Check after Friday, September 13, 2019 at 4:30 PM | ||
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Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition. Pages 297-299, 126-129. (Textbook). |
Reflection 1 |
Sunday, September 15, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Counts toward 15% | ||
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Chandler, Daniel. "Models of the Sign", Semiotics, The Basics. Routledge. Second Edition (2007). (PDF). |
Sign up for Group Project |
Sunday, September 15, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Ungraded | ||
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Week 3 |
Module 3: Semiotics, Language, and Discourse (Barthes and Derrida) |
Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition. Pages 126-130, 328-329. (Textbook). |
Discussion 1 |
Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Counts toward 15% |
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Barthes, Roland. "Myth Today", Mythologies. Hill and Wang, (1972). (PDF). | |||||
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Derrida, Jacques. "Structure, Sign, and Play", Writing and Difference, trans. Alan Bass. University of Chicago Press; Reprint, 1993 edition (February 15, 1980). (PDF). | |||||
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Week 4 |
Module 4: Traditional Rhetorics (Fish and Weaver) |
Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition. Pages 162-170. (Textbook). |
Reflection 2 |
Sunday, September 29, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Counts toward 15% |
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Fish, Stanley. "Rhetoric", The Stanley Fish Reader. Wiley-Blackwell (January 1999). (PDF). | |||||
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Weaver, Richard. "The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric", Readings in a Contemporary Rhetoric. Pages 130-145. (Textbook). | |||||
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Week 5 |
Module 5: Traditional Rhetorics (Kenneth Burke) |
Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition. Pages 171-188. (Textbook). |
Discussion 2 |
Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Counts toward 15% |
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Burke, Kenneth. "Dramatism", Readings in a Contemporary Rhetoric. Pages 160-170. (Textbook). |
Barthes "Myth Today" Group Project Presentation |
Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, September 30, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade | ||
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Burke, Kenneth. "Terministic Screens", Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. Berkeley, Cal. University of California Press, 1966. (PDF). |
Derrida Group Project Presentation |
Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, September 30, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade | ||
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Burke, Kenneth. "Definition of Man", Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. Berkeley, Cal. University of California Press, 1966. (PDF). | |||||
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Week 6 |
Module 6: Traditional Rhetorics (Toulmin) |
Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition. Pages 96-107. (Textbook). |
Discussion 3 |
Sunday, October 20, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Counts toward 15% |
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Toulmin, Stephen. "The Tyranny of Principles", Readings in a Contemporary Rhetoric. Pages 93-109. (Textbook). |
Fish Group Project Presentation |
Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, October 7, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday October 20, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade | ||
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Toulmin, Stephen. "Theory and Practice", Readings in a Contemporary Rhetoric. Pages 110-129. (Textbook). |
Weaver Group Project Presentation |
Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, October 7, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday October 20, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade | ||
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Week 7 |
Module 7: Traditional Rhetorics (Perelman) |
Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition. Pages 108-112. (Textbook). |
Reflection 3 |
Sunday, October 27, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Counts toward 15% |
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Perelman, Chaïm. "The New Rhetoric: A Theory of Practical Reasoning", Readings in a Contemporary Rhetoric. Pages 57-92. (Textbook). |
Burke Group Project Presentation |
Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, October 21, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, October 27, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade | ||
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Toulmin Group Project Presentation |
Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, October 21, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, October 27, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade | |||
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Week 8 |
Module 8: Cultural Rhetoric, Critical Rhetoric, and Power (Marx) |
Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition. Pages 291-316. (Textbook). |
Reflection 4 |
Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Counts toward 15% |
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Perelman Group Project Presentation |
Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, October 28, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade | |||
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Foucault Group Project Presentation |
Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, October 28, 2019 at11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade | |||
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Week 9 |
Module 9: Cultural Rhetoric, Critical Rhetoric, and Power (hooks and Foucault) |
Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition. Pages 263-290. (Textbook). |
Discussion 4 |
Sunday, November 10, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Counts toward 15% |
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hooks, bell. "Reflections on Race and Sex", Readings in a Contemporary Rhetoric. Pages 228-234. (Textbook). |
hooks Group Project Presentation |
Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, November 4, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, November 10, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade | ||
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hooks, bell. "Teaching Resistance," Readings in a Contemporary Rhetoric. Pages 243-249. (Textbook). |
Baudrillard and/or Eco Group Project Presentation |
Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, November 4, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, November 10, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade | ||
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Foucault, Michel. "History, Discourse and Discontinuity", Readings in a Contemporary Rhetoric. Pages 283-301. (Textbook). |
Submit your Research Essay Topic Statement |
Sunday, November 10, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Ungraded | ||
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Foucault, Michel. "The History of Sexuality", Readings in a Contemporary Rhetoric. Pages 302-318. (Textbook). | |||||
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Week 10 |
Module 10: Postmodernism (Baudrillard and Eco) |
Baudrillard, Jean. "A Marginal System: Collecting", Readings in a Contemporary Rhetoric. Pages 259-275. (Textbook). Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition. Pages 317- 328. (Textbook). |
Reflection 5 |
Sunday, November 17, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Counts toward 15% |
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Eco, Umberto. Travels in Hyperreality. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Reprint edition (2001). (PDF). |
McLuhan Group Project Presentation |
Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, November 11, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, November 17, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade | ||
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Barthes "Rhetoric of the Image" Group Project Presentation |
Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, November 11, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, November 17, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade | |||
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Week 11 |
Module 11: Media, Technology, and Advertising (McLuhan, Barthes, and McNair) |
Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition. Pages 113-137. (Textbook). |
Discussion 5 |
Sunday, November 24, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Counts toward 15% |
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McLuhan, Marshall. "The Medium is the Message". Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. The MIT Press; REV edition (Oct. 24 1994). (PDF). McLuhan, Marshall. "Media Hot and Cold". Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. The MIT Press; REV edition (Oct. 24 1994). (PDF). |
McNair Group Project Presentation |
Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, November 18, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, November 24, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade | ||
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Barthes, Roland. "Rhetoric of the Image", Image Music Text. Hill and Wang. (July 1, 1978). (PDF). |
Ellul and Loebs Group Project Presentation |
Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, November 18, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, November 24, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final | ||
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McNair, Brian "Party Political Communication 1: grade Advertising", An Introduction to Political Communication. 5th Edition, Routledge (2011). (PDF). | |||||
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Week 12 |
Module 12: Propaganda (Ellul and Hitler) |
Ellul, Jacques. "The Characteristics of Propaganda", Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes. Vintage (January 12, 1973). (PDF). |
Research Essay due |
Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 11:55 PM |
25% |
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Loebs, Bruce. "Hitler´s Rhetorical Theory", Relevant Rhetoric, Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2010. (PDF). | |||||
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Final Exam |
25% | ||||
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Course Description and Objectives
Description
In Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, we will survey the key authors, concepts, issues, and debates of contemporary rhetoric and place them in a practical context. The first half of the course will focus on the (arguably) five most important contemporary rhetoricians (Weaver, Richards, Burke, Toulmin, and Perelman), and the second part will concentrate on contemporary rhetoric at work in culture through power relations, discourse, sexuality, race, media, advertising, and propaganda. Recognizing with Kenneth Burke “how overwhelmingly much of what we mean by ‘reality’ has been built for us through nothing but our symbol systems,” we will examine theories of rhetoric to better understand the pervasiveness of rhetoric in our ways of knowing. The class will consist of lectures, presentations, discussion, and workshop exercises.
Objectives
In this course, you will learn to:
- Explain key rhetoric theories and theorists of the 20th century.
- Apply these theories to contemporary culture.
- Compare these theories, individual theorists, and movements.
This online course was developed by Gordon Slethaug, with instructional design and multimedia development support provided by the Centre for Extended Learning. Further media production was provided by Instructional Technologies and Multimedia Services.
About the Course Author
Gordon Slethaug, PHD, MA, BA
BIOGRAPHY
I
have
taught
at
universities
in
Canada,
China,
Denmark,
Hong
Kong,
and
the
United
States,
and
draw
from
these
experiences
in
my
teaching
and
writing.
At
the
University
of
Waterloo
(head
of
the
English
Department
and
Associate
Dean
of
Graduate
Programs
in
Arts)
until
1995,
I
then
taught
at
the
University
of
Hong
Kong
(Director
of
American
Studies
and
Lingnan
Professor)
from
1995
to
2008.
From
2004
to
2008,
I
was
awarded
a
four-year
grant
from
the
Lingnan
Foundation
(Yale
and
New
York
City)
to
bring
team
teaching,
interdisciplinary
methodology,
American
studies,
and
Englishlanguage
instruction
to
the
classroom
at
Sun
Yat-sen
University
in
Guangzhou
and
to
bridge
American
Studies
activities
and
research
between
the
University
of
Hong
Kong
and
Sun
Yat-sen
University,
and
I
have
written
widely
on
the
faculty
and
student
learning
transformation
that
occurred
as
a
result
of
this
project.
I
remain
an
Honorary
Professor
in
Arts
at
the
University
of
Hong
Kong.
From
2008
until
2012,
I
taught
American
culture
and
communication
subjects
at
the
University
of
Southern
Denmark,
where
I
had
earlier
been
awarded
a
Senior
Fulbright
Professorship.
These
included:
the
History
and
Culture
of
New
York
City;
the
Road
in
American
Culture;
Contemporary
American
literature;
Asian
American
Culture;
International
Teaching
and
Learning;
Intercultural
Communications;
Media
and
Communications;
Identity,
Culture,
and
Learning;
HRM,
Organizations
and
Communications;
and
Communications
and
Globalization.
My
current
teaching
and
writing
at
Waterloo
focuses
on
American
culture
(especially
film
adaptation),
rhetoric,
and
issues
of
internationalization.
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
2017.
Music
and
the
Road:
Essays
on
the
Interplay
of
Music
and
the
Popular
Culture
of
the
American
Road.
New
York
et
al:
Bloomsbury
Academic,
271pp.
2015.
Co-edited
with
Jane
Vinther,
International
Teaching
and
Learning
at
Universities:
Achieving
Equilibrium
with
Local
Culture
and
Pedagogy.
New
York:
Palgrave
Macmillan.
2015.
199pp.
2014.
Adaptation
Theory
and
Criticism:
Postmodern
Literature
and
Cinema
in
the
USA.
New
York:
Bloomsbury
Press.
275pp.
2012.
Co-edited
with
Stacilee
Ford.
Hit
the
Road,
Jack:
the
History
and
Culture
of
the
Road
in
America.
Montreal:
McGill-Queens
University
Press.
329pp.
2010.
Co-edited
with
Janette
Ryan,
International
Education
and
the
Chinese
Learner.
Hong
Kong:
University
of
Hong
Kong
Press.
210pp.
2007.
Teaching
Abroad:
The
Cross-Cultural
Classroom
and
International
Education.
Hong
Kong:
University
of
Hong
Kong
Press,
2007
and
Seattle:
University
of
Washington
Press.
220pp.
2000.
Beautiful
Chaos:
Chaos
Theory
and
Metachaotics
in
Recent
American
Fiction.
Albany:
State
University
Press
of
New
York.
235pp.
1994.
Co-edited
with
Michael
Larsen,
Doubles
and
Doubling
in
the
Contemporary
Arts.,
special
double
issue
of
the
Journal
of
the
Fantastic
in
the
Arts.
1.
6.2-3.
184pp.
1993.
The
Play
of
the
Double
in
Postmodern
American
Fiction.
Carbondale:
Southern
Illinois
University
Press.
234pp.
1990.
With
Stanley
Fogel.
Understanding
John
Barth.
Columbus:
University
of
South
Carolina
Press.
241pp.
ARTICLES
AND
CHAPTERS
2012:
"Mapping
the
Trope:
A
Historical
and
Cultural
Journey"
and
"Postmodern
Masculinities
in
Recent
Buddy
and
Solo
Road
Films,"
Hit
the
Road,
Jack:
the
History
and
Culture
of
the
Road.
Eds.
Gordon
E.
Slethaug
and
Stacilee
Ford.
120pp.
2010.
"Cross-Cultural
Team-Teaching
in
China:
A
Retrospective
View."
In
Understanding
China's
Education
Reform:
Creating
Cross
Cultural
Knowledge,
Pedagogies
and
Dialogue.
Ed.
Janette
Ryan.
London:
Routeldge.
22pp.
2010.
"Something
Happened
While
Nobody
was
Looking:
The
Growth
of
International
Education
and
the
Chinese
Learner."
In
International
Education
and
the
Chinese
Learner.
Eds.
Janette
Ryan
and
Gordon
Slethaug.
Hong
Kong:
University
of
Hong
Kong
Press.
15-36.
2009.
"Spike
Lee,
Martin
Luther
King,
Malcolm
X:
The
Politics
of
Domination
and
Difference."
In
I
sing
the
Body
Politic:
History
as
Prophecy
in
Contemporary
American
Literature.
Ed.
Peter
Swirski.
Montreal:
McGill-Queens
U
Press.
113-148.
2008.
"Class,
Ethnicity,
Race,
and
Economic
Opportunity:
the
Idea
of
Order
in
Scorsese's
Gangs
of
New
York
and
Spike
Lee's
Do
the
Right
Thing."
Journal
of
American
Studies.
(Korea)
40:1:
149-183.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
-
2004-08 Lingnan Foundation grant
-
2003-04 Senior Fulbright Professor
-
2002 University of Hong Kong, Outstanding Teacher award
CURRENT
RESEARCH
I
am
keenly
interested
in
globalization,
semiotics
and
advertising,
contemporary
American
film
and
literature,
international
teaching
and
learning,
and
cross-cultural
learning
and
have
written
widely
in
these
areas.
I
have
a
lifetime
achievement
of
10
books
and
editions;
some
65
articles
and
chapters
in
books,
and
hundreds
of
conference
papers
and
invited
presentations.
Materials and Resources
Textbooks
REQUIRED
- Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition, Waveland Press Inc, March 2018.
- Karen A. Foss, Sonja K. Foss, Robert Trapp. Readings in Contemporary Rhetoric. Waveland Press Inc, August 2001.
RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
- English Literature and English Rhetoric, and Professional Writing
- The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
- eReference Items for English
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Resources
- Library services for co-op students on work term and extended learning students
Grade Breakdown
| Activities and Assignments | Weight(%) |
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| Introduce Yourself | Ungraded |
| Discussions | 15% (5x3%) |
| Reflections | 15% (5x3%) |
| Group Project | 20% |
| Research Essay | 25% |
| Final Examination | 25% |
| Total | Weight 100% |
Course and Department Policies
Policies
Assignments are due as noted on the Course Schedule. Unless prior arrangements are made, late assignments will lose 10% per late day.
Academic Integrity
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University Policies
Submission Times
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Accommodation Due to Illness
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Otherwise:
MISSED ASSIGNMENTS/TESTS/QUIZZES
Contact the instructor as soon as you realize there will be a problem, and preferably within 48 hours, but no more than 72 hours, have a medical practitioner complete a Verification of Illness Form.
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Further information regarding Management of Requests for Accommodation Due to Illness can be found on the Accommodation due to illness page.
MISSED FINAL EXAMINATIONS
If this course has a final exam and if you are unable to write a final examination due to illness, seek medical treatment and have a medical practitioner complete a Verification of Illness Form. Email a scanned copy to the Centre for Extended Learning (CEL) at extendedlearning@uwaterloo.ca within 48 hours of your missed exam. Make sure you include your name, student ID number, and the exam(s) missed. You will be REQUIRED to hand in the original completed form before you write the make-up examination.
After your completed Verification of Illness Form has been received and processed, you will be emailed your alternate exam date and time. This can take up to 2 business days. If you are within 150 km of Waterloo you should be prepared to write in Waterloo on the additional CEL exam dates. If you live outside the 150 km radius, CEL will work with you to make suitable arrangements.
Further information about Examination Accommodation Due to Illness regulations is available in the Undergraduate Calendar.
Academic Integrity
In order to maintain a culture of academic integrity, members of the University of Waterloocommunity are expected to promote honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility. If you have not already completed the online tutorial regarding academic integrity you should do so as soon as possible. Undergraduate students should see the Academic Integrity Tutorial and graduate students should see the Graduate Students and Academic Integrity website.
Proper citations are part of academic integrity. Citations in CEL course materials usually follow CEL style, which is based on APA style. Your course may follow a different style. If you are uncertain which style to use for an assignment, please confirm with your instructor or TA.
For further information on academic integrity, please visit the Office of Academic Integrity.
Turnitin
Turnitin.com: Text matching software (Turnitin®) may be used to screen assignments in this course. Turnitin® is used to verify that all materials and sources in assignments are documented. Students’ submissions are stored on a U.S. server, therefore students must be given an alternative (e.g., scaffolded assignment or annotated bibliography), if they are concerned about their privacy and/or security. Students will be given due notice, in the first week of the term and/or at the time assignment details are provided, about arrangements and alternatives for the use of Turnitin® in this course. It is the responsibility of the student to notify the instructor if they, in the first week of term or at the time assignment details are provided, wish to submit the alternate assignment.
Turnitin® at Waterloo
Discipline
A student is expected to know what constitutes academic integrity to avoid committing an academic offence, and to take responsibility for his/her actions. A student who is unsure whether an action constitutes an offence, or who needs help in learning how to avoid offences (e.g., plagiarism, cheating) or about “rules” for group work/collaboration, should seek guidance from the course instructor, academic advisor, or the undergraduate Associate Dean. For information on categories of offences and types of penalties, students should refer to Policy 71 - Student Discipline. For typical penalties, check Guidelines for the Assessment of Penalties.
Appeals
A
decision
made
or
penalty
imposed
under
Policy
70
-
Student
Petitions
and
Grievances,
(other
than
a
petition)
or
Policy
71
-
Student
Discipline,
may
be
appealed
if
there
is
a
ground.
A
student
who
believes
he/she
has
a
ground
for
an
appeal
should
refer
to
Policy
72
-
Student
Appeals.
Greivance
A
student
who
believes
that
a
decision
affecting
some
aspect
of
his/her
university
life
has
been
unfair
or
unreasonable
may
have
grounds
for
initiating
a
grievance.
Read
Policy
70
-
Student
Petitions
and
Grievances,
Section
4.
When
in
doubt
please
be
certain
to
contact
the
department’s
administrative
assistant
who
will
provide
further
assistance.
Final Grades
In
accordance
with
Policy
46
-
Information
Management,
Appendix
A
-
Access
to
and
Release
of
Student
Information,
the
Centre
for
Extended
Learning
does
not
release
final
examination
grades
or
final
course
grades
to
students.
Students
must
go
to
Quest
to
see
all
final
grades.
Any
grades
posted
in
Waterloo
LEARN
are
unofficial.
Accessability Services
AccessAbility
Services,
located
in
Needles
Hall,
collaborates
with
all
academic
departments
to
arrange
appropriate
accommodations
for
students
with
disabilities
without
compromising
the
academic
integrity
of
the
curriculum.
If
you
require
academic
accommodation
to
lessen
the
impact
of
your
disability,
please
register
with
AccessAbility
Services
at
the
beginning
of
each
academic
term
and
for
each
course.
Accessability Statement
The
Centre
for
Extended
Learning
strives
to
meet
the
needs
of
all
our
online
learners.
Our
ongoing
efforts
to
become
aligned
with
the
Accessibility
for
Ontarians
with
Disabilities
Act
(AODA)
are
guided
by
University
of
Waterloo
accessibility
Legislation
and
policy
and
the
World
Wide
Web
Consortium's
(W3C)
Web
Content
Accessibility
Guidelines
(WCAG)
2.0.
The
majority
of
our
online
courses
are
currently
delivered
via
the
Desire2Learn
Learning
Environment.
Learn
more
about
Desire2Learn’s
Accessibility
Standards
Compliance.
Use of Computing and Network Resources
Please see the Guidelines on Use of Waterloo Computing and Network Resources.
Copyright Information
UWaterloo’s
Web
Pages
All
rights,
including
copyright,
images,
slides,
audio,
and
video
components,
of
the
content
of
this
course
are
owned
by
the
course
author,
unless
otherwise
stated.
These
web
pages
are
owned
or
controlled
by
the
University
of
Waterloo,
Centre
for
Extended
Learning.
By
accessing
the
web
pages,
you
agree
that
you
may
only
download
the
content
for
your
own
personal,
non-commercial
use.
You
are
not
permitted
to
copy,
broadcast,
download,
store
(in
any
medium),
transmit,
show
or
play
in
public,
adapt,
or
change
in
any
way
the
content
of
these
web
pages
for
any
other
purpose
whatsoever
without
the
prior
written
permission
of
the
course
author
and
the
University
of
Waterloo,
Centre
for
Extended
Learning.
Other
Sources
Respect
the
copyright
of
others
and
abide
by
all
copyright
notices
and
regulations
when
using
the
computing
facilities
provided
for
your
course
of
study
by
the
University
of
Waterloo.
No
material
on
the
Internet
or
World
Wide
Web
may
be
reproduced
or
distributed
in
any
material
form
or
in
any
medium,
without
permission
from
copyright
holders
or
their
assignees.
To
support
your
course
of
study,
the
University
of
Waterloo
has
provided
hypertext
links
to
relevant
websites,
resources,
and
services
on
the
web.
These
resources
must
be
used
in
accordance
with
any
registration
requirements
or
conditions
which
may
be
specified.
You
must
be
aware
that
in
providing
such
hypertext
links,
the
University
of
Waterloo
has
not
authorized
any
acts
(including
reproduction
or
distribution)
which,
if
undertaken
without
permission
of
copyright
owners
or
their
assignees,
may
be
infringement
of
copyright.
Permission
for
such
acts
can
only
be
granted
by
copyright
owners
or
their
assignees.
If
there
are
any
questions
about
this
notice,
please
contact
the
University
of
Waterloo,
Centre
for
Extended
Learning,
Waterloo,
Ontario,
Canada,
N2L
3G1
or
extendedlearning@uwaterloo.ca.