Instructor:  Cameron Walker, Ph.D.           

Email:  cwalker@fullerton.edu (preferred); camwalker@aol.com

Emails will be promptly answered within 48 hours unless otherwise notified. This is the preferred method of contact as I will only rarely be on campus.

Office:  McCarthy Hall 477E                  

Phone: 714-278-3393

Blackboard website: http://fullerton.blackboard.com

Office Hours:  I will reply as quickly as possible, usually within a few hours.

REQUIRED TEXT: 

Images of the Past, by T. Douglas Price & Gary M. Feinman, 2008, McGraw-Hill.

ADDITIONAL READINGS:  will be posted on Blackboard.

Computer Requirements

Since this is an online course, the use of a computer and the Internet is required. You will be utilizing Blackboard for several different components of the course: your grades, quizzes, participation in discussion boards and chats, and correspondence with the instructor.

To access the Blackboard system:Login to the Blackboard system. This system is easy to use but you must carefully follow directions to access it successfully. PLEASE READ THIS FIRST!

·         Go to your student portal page at https://my.fullerton.edu.

·         On your portal you can find your blackboard username and password. Click on Blackboard and login to the course.

If you have any problems or questions please call the Help Desk at 278-7777. Do not call me or the Department, we will be unable to help. If you are unfamiliar with Blackboard tools, there are several tutorials that are offered through Blackboard and I encourage you to utilize them.

Also required for this course are the following computer programs: MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat Reader which may be downloaded for free.

ALL POSTS AND EMAILS MUST BE SIGNED WITH YOUR REAL NAME. I WILL NOT RESPOND OTHERWISE.  If you do not have a professional email (ex. cwalker@fullerton.edu) and are instead using your “fun” email address (ex. funkpunky77@gmail.com), I suggest you get a professional email from one of the following sites that are FREE: fullerton.edu provides your student account, yahoo.com, hotmail.com, AOL, etc.

“Netiquette”

Remember, although this is an online environment, it is still in an educational and classroom format. Treat your postings, chats, and discussions in a professional and educational manner. It is not appropriate to discuss extracurricular activities that are irrelevant to course and content and class discussions. If you do feel the need to have such discussions, please utilize another internet resource such as AIM, AOL, Yahoo, etc. Disruptive behavior online will not be tolerated. Do not use all capital letters in your posts. Do not make personal comments, and check your spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Your postings on Blackboard are NOT private discussions and I will be monitoring them for content and for grading purposes.

Basic Rules for Postings and Discussions:

• BE polite

• BE sure to identify yourself

• BE sure to identify quoted material

• BE sure to send messages to the most appropriate list

• NO long posts - 50 line limit

• NO obscene language

• NO religious or sexual solicitation

• NO personal attacks on list members

• NO long ASCII graphics

• NO long quotations

• NO cross-postings

Please refer to and download for future reference http://nursing.wsu.edu/current/netiquette.pdf  for more information about the importance of netiquette in your discussion postings.

Course Requirements and Grading:

There are 5 components for student participation for each of the 6 modules:

1.    Exercise 1 - at 4-5 sentences each

2.    Exercise 2 - at 4-5 sentences each

3.    Response postings to Instructor Questions (2 questions for each module) at 4-5 sentences each

4.    Original posting to comment on chapter material at 4-5 sentences each

5.    Response postings to student discussion (at least one for each module) at 4-5 sentences each

Additionally the course requires:

6.    1 (4 – 5 page) response essay on 3 assigned readings posted on Blackboard.

7.    Final exam (there are no quizzes or midterm).

Submitting Your Assignments:

Your assignments (exercises and essays) are to be submitted on Blackboard under the Discussion Board. Please notify me if/when you submit a hard copy assignment to my hardcopy mailbox, which is located on the 4^th floor of McCarthy Hall in the Anthropology Department.

Discussion Postings and Participation (further information):

You are expected to participate in class discussions following Netiquette Guidelines. You will receive points for postings and participation in online discussion sessions.

Discussion points and grading are as follows:

10 points = 5 points x 2 responses for Instructor Discussion Questions

10 points = 5 points x 2 responses for quality of responses for

Instructor Discussion Questions

        10 points = 5 Points X 2 - Online Exercises (2 for each Module)

        10 points = New Posting in Module                                     

        10 points = Response Posting in each Module

        50 points total per Module Topic (corresponds to assigned text chapters)    

6 Module Topics x 50 points each = 300 points

(Up to 10 points for Quality of Postings at the discretion of the instructor) 

Online Exam:

You will have a final Exam worth 100 points. Your exam will consist of multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, true/false and short answer questions that will demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of the materials and weekly discussions.  It will open book and timed for 1 hour and 50 minutes.

NO MAKE-UP EXAMS WILL BE GIVEN FOR THE FINAL EXAM.

Essays/Reaction Piece:

• Students will be required to read 3 articles that are posted online by the instructor and to write a typed, double-spaced, 4 – 5 page essay with a references cited page. 

• 1 essay @ 100 Points - essay readings will be available on the first day of the Intercession class (Dec. 17)

• You should draw upon information from course materials to analyze the significance of the articles in relation to the readings and exercises.

• You may submit the essays electronically via Blackboard and/or drop a hard copy off in my Anthropology Department mailbox on the 4^th floor of McCarthy Hall.

• Grammar and punctuation count toward the grade.

• Essays will have 5 points deducted for each day they are late.

Your essays will be graded as follows:

45 Points - Discussion of the archaeological relevance of the three articles. 

15 Points - What kind of impact (emotional, psychological, spiritual) has reading the articles had for your understanding of archaeology?

30 Points - Citations throughout your paper in AAA format and a Works Cited Page.  Please cite your paraphrased information as well as direct quotes.

                   WHEN IN DOUBT, CITE!!

10 Points - The essay will be at least 4-5 pages, left justification, double spaced, 12 pt font. Points will be deducted for improper formatting, grammatical and spelling errors.

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100 points total

Academic Honesty:Academic dishonesty, as referred to in UPS 300.021, “includes but is not limited to cheating on examinations or assignments, unauthorized collaboration, plagiarism, falsification/fabrication of university documents, any act designed to give unfair academic advantage to the student (such as, but not limited to, submission of essentially the same written assignment for two courses without the prior permission of the instructor), assisting or allowing any of these acts, or the attempt to commit such acts.”

Plagiarism, dishonesty, or cheating will result in an automatic F in the class and University Policy Guidelines will be followed.

Course Grading:

Participation/Discussions (6 modules at 50 points each)  = 300 points

          Essay at 100 points                                                    = 100 points

Anthropology 103 Web Class Schedule

Dates and activities may change at the instructor’s discretion.

• Blackboard assigned readings are found in the text.  It is your responsibility to read the materials and turn in assignments before the due date.

• Remember: You are required to post at least 1 NEW discussion for each Module Topic, and respond to at least 1 of your classmate’s postings in each Module Topic.

COURSE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: 

This course surveys the major topics of anthropological archaeology.  The primary goals are to understand how archaeologists use artifacts to learn about human behavior, and to learn about the great variety of human cultures that existed in the past.  With this in mind, we will concentrate on 1) reviewing the methods and techniques of archaeology; 2) learning how to interpret behavior from artifacts; 3) reconstructing past human lifeways; and 4) explaining the cultural developments that are visible in the archaeological record. 

GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENT: 

Introduction to Archaeology serves as a General Education Requirement.  According to our university, GE courses fulfilling category III.C.2 draw upon, integrate, apply, and extend knowledge and skills learned in III.C courses.  The italicized sentences indicate how this course meets the university’s GE goals (quotes below from UPS 411.201: pp 12 – 13).

a)    To understand broad, unifying themes in the social sciences from a cross-disciplinary perspective:  Introduction to Archaeology combines anthropological theory with topics of interest to other social science disciplines (such as economics and sociology) to gain a better understanding of humans both past and present.

b)   To solve complex problems that require social scientific reasoning:  Introduction to Archaeology combines the use of the scientific method with social science theory to address complex social problems (such as why did social classes develop?)

c)    To relate significant social problems to the social sciences and other disciplines:  Introduction to Archaeology seeks to explain the variation found among human societies, and addresses some of the reasons why many cultures/societies are similar, or different.  Topics considered include ethnicity, social status, subsistence and the environment.

d)   When deemed appropriate, to apply disciplinary concepts from the social sciences in a variety of settings, such as community-based learning sites and activities:  Archaeology is a material culture based course, and students may conduct activities in the classroom, outdoors, and off campus.

UPS 411.201 requires all GE classes to include a writing assignment.  “Writing assignments…should involve the organization and expression of complex data or ideas and careful and timely evaluations of writing so that deficiencies are identified and suggestions for improvement and/or for means of remediation are offered.  Assessments of the student’s writing competence shall be used in determining the final course grade” (UPS 411.201:1).  The assigned essays fulfill this requirement because you will organize and express complex data and ideas related to your growing understanding of the foundations of anthropological archaeology.

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