Expectations

As your instructor, I will:

• Prepare for every class and not let my problems and daily challenges interfere with your opportunities for learning.

• Balance the demands that this course places on your time with my high expectations for your mastery of the valuable ideas to be learned.

• Give you direct and timely feedback on the progress you are making in the course. Exams, quizzes, assignments, and problem sets will be returned to you within one week. Please keep all of these returned items in case we need to resolve issues relating to grading later in the semester.

• Make myself available to you outside of class if you need additional help or would simply like to continue discussing specific course ideas.

• Respect your privacy and your personal positions on issues even as I persistently encourage you to actively participate in our class discussions.

• Use examples and analogies that you can relate to based upon your life experiences.

• Make connections between new ideas we are learning and ideas that you have already learned in the course.

• Remind you of the progress we have made in the course and point out the directions we are going.

• Try to make each class as interesting as possible while recognizing that learning can be an uncomfortable and disquieting experience.

• Recognize that your values, background, and life experience may be very different from mine.

• Start and end class on time.

Conversely, as a member of this class, I expect you to:

• Attend every class unless you are ill or have an extraordinary reason to miss.

• Be on time for class and stay until the class is over; if you must leave early, I appreciate it when you let me know in advance.

• Be respectful of me and your fellow classmates by listening carefully to what is being said in class and refraining from unwarranted criticism, ridicule, or other degrading or distracting behaviors, including carrying on private conversations.

• Prepare for each class by doing the assigned reading and homework.

• Let me know if something I do or say interferes with your learning.

• Be patient when someone else takes extra time to master an idea or to argue a point.

• Help me create a productive, encouraging, lively classroom atmosphere where the common enemy is ignorance, not our different opinions.

• Remain attentive during class and not sleep, engage in private conversations or in other behavior that is distracting to your fellow students.

• Carry your share of the load by working as a team with other members of “your” country.

MTU complies with all federal and state laws and regulations regarding discrimination, including the Americans with Disability Act of 1990 (ADA). If you have a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for equal access to education or services at MTU, please call Dr. Gloria Melton, Associate Dean of Students (2212). For other concerns about discrimination, you may contact your advisor, department head, or the Affirmative Action Office (3310).