Course Syllabus

Dr. Jones Phone #: 624-1138 Email: umn.indiana.jones@umn.edu Office hours:  9-11 AM Monday, Wednesday, Thursday Learn more about Dr. Jones

Course Information

• DEPT 1001: Course Name
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Course Goals and Objectives

This course addresses the application of social science theory and methods to behavioral research in Ancient Egypt; we will explore the key roles and figures, government and economics and foreign policy. Methods used in this course include analysis of observation, quizzes, videos, assignments and no final!

Based on your knowledge from this course you should be able to do the following:

• Demonstrate an increased understanding of key roles and figures, government and economics and foreign policy in Ancient Egypt.
• Apply social science theories to the study Ancient Egypt.
• Apply various behavioral analysis techniques to Ancient Egypt.
• Develop a final paper of your analysis of Ancient Egypt.

Required and Recommended Materials 

• No books! Everything is in the Canvas course.

• Varied articles available through Canvas site.

Communication

Please send emails and messages to the professor through Canvas. Student emails sent to the professor’s umn.edu address, regardless of origin, will not be opened. Messages sent through the Canvas Inbox (Send a Message) feature will be answered within 24 hours during the week and within 48 hours on weekends.

Students are required to customize their Canvas notifications preferences to receive immediate ("notify me right away") of messages and announcements through the third-party provider of choice (e.g. email, SMS/text). Students are required to log into the course regularly (more than twice a week) and check Announcements and the Canvas Inbox upon logging in to stay on top of developments in the course as they occur. 

Information about Canvas notifications and communication is available in the "Getting Started" module.

Assignments and Exams 

Course readings and video

While these are ungraded assignments, you are expected to read and review these course materials. 

Online reading quizzes

Quizzes will consist of 5 to 10 questions.  The quiz due dates are announced in the course calendar. Quizzes must be completed by 11:55 pm on the due date. You may retake each quiz ONCE in order to improve your score. Because questions will be pulled from a question pool, your questions on your second attempt may not be exactly the same as those on your first attempt. However, your highest score will be recorded as your final grade, so it is to your advantage to make both attempts. You CANNOT collaborate with other students on quizzes or exams. You may, however, use any of the material provided in the course.

Discussions

Discussions allow us to exchange insights and viewpoints throughout the course, just as ideas would be discussed in a face-to-face class. These are designed to help students learn, remember, critically analyze, and apply the course material. The goal is that these are informative, but also challenging, interesting, and enjoyable. For discussion forums, you are required to post your own response to the question as well as respond to at least one other student’s post. For some of the assignments you are assigned to smaller group to facilitate a sense of community 

Peer reviews

Students will be assigned a peer review partner. To ensure sufficient time for review and subsequent edits, submit your assignment in the timeframe indicated.

Written assignments

A Day in the Life Assignment

This assignment will help you to understand the history of daily lives during Ancient Egypt and some of the most famous figures. This assignment can be used as a basis for your final assignment paper. You will obtain and review 4-7 articles about the life in Ancient Egypt and put them in your paper also. This will be in the addition of reading the pages that I have already made in this Canvas course. Typically one or two paragraphs set up the review (topic background, why it is important); the next paragraphs describe the life of Ancient Egypt (brief description of each study’s methods and significant findings); the final paragraphs synthesize the knowledge gained from the articles reviewed (plus limitations or gaps). In the last paragraph make sure you tie which time period you would want to live in. The assignment should be 350 to 500 words. 

Ancient Egypt: Bringing it All Together Assignment

The major assignment is a final paper for you to talk about what you have learned throughout this course and to further think about topics and answer the questions that have been listed in the assignment page. While you may choose a separate question from that which you picked before, it will be in your best interest to talk about the one you are most comfortable with for this assignment.  As we would like this assignment to have application for you outside of this course, you will be preparing a outline for the paper.

To keep you on pace, a couple of mini-assignments related to the paper will be due throughout the semester. 

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