Grading and Evaluations
Final Grades will be calculated as follows:
2 papers -- 15% each
2 exams -- 15% each
1 small research project -- 17.5%
Class participation -- 15% (includes brief presentation on readings that will be graded P/F)
Quizzes -- 7.5%

Remember: 

* More than 2 absences in the semester will affect your grade. 
* Only excused absences qualify for makeup work.
* Late work will not be accepted.  Makeup exams will not * be provided. 
* Exceptions to this policy are provided only in cases of true emergencies.
* If you experience an emergency, contact the professor ASAP to make alternative arrangements.
* Click here to review my zero-tolerance policy on plagiarism and cheating.

Image credit:  Metropolitan Museum, New York; Book of the Dead; a papyrus showing the weighing of the heart ceremony in which the gods weigh the deceased’s heart to determine whether s/he merits an afterlife.


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