Course Withdrawal: Course Change Policy: Faculty members reserve the right to make discretionary changes to the course during the term. All significant changes will be provided to students in writing. Sample Rubric Assessment Task: Each student will make a 5-minute presentation on the changes in one community over the past 30 years. The student may focus the presentation in any way he or she wishes, but there needs to be a thesis of some sort, not just a chronological exposition. The presentation should include appropriate photographs, maps, graphs, and other visual aids for the audience. Excellent Competent Needs work Knowledge/ The presentation The presentation The presentation demonstrates a uses knowledge that uses little relevant understanding depth of historical is generally accurate or accurate (20%) understanding by with only minor information, not using relevant and inaccuracies and that even that which was accurate detail. is generally relevant presented in class or Research is to the student's in the assigned texts. thorough and goes thesis. Research is Little or no research beyond what was adequate but does is apparent. presented in class or not go much beyond in the assigned texts. what was presented in class or in the assigned text. Thinking/inquiry The presentation is The presentation The presentation (30%) centered around a shows an analytical shows no analytical thesis, which shows structure and a structure and no a highly developed central thesis, but central thesis. awareness of the analysis is not historiographic or always fully social issues and a developed or linked high level of to the thesis. conceptual ability.
Course Withdrawal: Course Change Policy: Faculty members reserve the right to make discretionary changes to the course during the term. All significant changes will be provided to students in writing. Sample Rubric Assessment Task: Each student will make a 5-minute presentation on the changes in one community over the past 30 years. The student may focus the presentation in any way he or she wishes, but there needs to be a thesis of some sort, not just a chronological exposition. The presentation should include appropriate photographs, maps, graphs, and other visual aids for the audience. Excellent Competent Needs work Knowledge/ understanding (20%) The presentation demonstrates a depth of historical understanding by using relevant and accurate detail. Research is thorough and goes beyond what was presented in class or in the assigned texts. The presentation uses knowledge that is generally accurate with only minor inaccuracies and that is generally relevant to the student's thesis. Research is adequate but does not go much beyond what was presented in class or in the assigned text. The presentation uses little relevant or accurate information, not even that which was presented in class or in the assigned texts. Little or no research is apparent. Thinking/inquiry (30%) The presentation is centered around a thesis, which shows a highly developed awareness of historiographic or social issues and a high level of conceptual ability. The presentation shows an analytical structure and a central thesis, but the analysis is not always fully developed or linked to the thesis. The presentation shows no analytical structure and no central thesis.
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