MC
450-001:Handouts/Guide to
Assignments
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Grading
Scale: 90-100=A; 80-89=B; 70-79=C; 60-69=D; 59-00=F
Grades
will be based on an evaluation of class participation, group
product evaluations, and individual product and paper grades.
Course
grades will be determined as follows:
Class
Participation: 40%
Midterm: 20%
Final
Research Paper: 20%
Team
Project: 20%
Total: 100%
The
Final Research Paper will consist of a 7-10 page paper on
an aspect of the impact of the Internet. Topics will be individually
assigned by the instructor by the middle part of the term.
The
class will be broken up into 3-4 teams to complete a product
assigned by the instructor. The suggested products are: 1)
make the MCS newscast available via streaming video, 2) produce
streaming audio Webcasts of UM sporting events, and 3) create
a Mass Communication alumni/ current students portal on the
Internet, where pictures, videos, and other content may be
posted by current and former students.
Each
team will turn in regular progress reports, a major paper
outlining research, findings, and recommendations, and a demonstration
of the product by the end of the semester.
Papers
must conform to the APA style and be spell and grammar checked.
Any papers that do not meet these criteria will be returned
for no credit.
Students
at the University of Montevallo are expected to conduct themselves
in a manner consistent with the University's functions as
an institution of higher education. Inappropriate conduct,
which includes, but is not limited to academic dishonesty,
cheating, plagiarism, fabrication or falsification of information
in any academic exercise, or aiding and abetting such inappropriate
conduct, is subject to disciplinary action under the terms
of the Student Conduct Code.
Plagiarism
and Academic Dishonesty: To claim as one’s own the ideas
or words of another is plagiarism. Plagiarism is defined as
the following:
- using
the exact words of another person’s work/writing without
acknowledgment of your source through the use of quotation
marks and correct citation/documentation;
- rephrasing
a passage by another writer without giving proper credit;
- using
someone else’s facts or ideas without acknowledgement;
- using
a piece of writing for one course that was already used
in a previous course (or in courses in which you are simultaneously
enrolled) without express permission from both instructors
to do so; and
- presenting
fabricated or falsified citations or materials.
Please
consult with the instructor of this course if you are unsure
about how to document sources. Cheating on exams is also an
affront to the principle of academic honesty. At the very least,
an assignment on which plagiarism or cheating has occurred will
receive no credit, i.e., a "zero," and an Academic
Dishonesty Incident Form concerning the incident will be kept
on file in the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs.
A plagiarist/cheater is also subject to failure in the course
and/or appearance before the Justice Council. (Approved by Faculty
Senate, Spring 2000)
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