Everyone will be expected to complete the following REQUIREMENTS:
Reading assignments. We can only have interesting and exciting discussions if you do ALL of the reading in advance.
(20%)--Three days (72 hours) prior to each class, each of you who are not presenting that week will be required to submit (on Pitzer's Sakai Web Site), at least two questions you thought of while doing the readings. Among the purposes of these questions is to help the student who will be leading the discussion 3 days later to prepare for that task. The quality of these questions will be evaluated--by both me and the discussion leader--for their ability to spark discussion as well as for the extent to which they offer evidence that ALL of the readings were actually completed.
(30%)--Several (the exact number will depend on enrollment) turns as discussion leader. Being the discussion leader will entail finding and assigning--in collaboration with a co-presenter--two or three articles on your chosen topic (20 - 25 pages maximum). These articles must be approved by me, and can be review chapters from edited books or empirical articles from research journals (examples of acceptable journals include, but are not limited to: Child Development, Developmental Science, Infant Behavior and Development, Infancy, Developmental Psychobiology, Developmental Review, and Developmental Psychology). Either way, plan to have an electronic copy (in PDF file-format) to me by 12:00 p.m. one week before your team's presentations will begin. In addition, be prepared to tell your classmates on the Wednesday before your team's presentations what they will need to know as they read the material you're assigning. Your grade on this section will be jointly determined as a function of both your presentation and your chosen assignments.
(Please note: I will consider any collection of 4 or more consecutive, unquoted words taken from another source to be plagiarism. Any paper containing any plagiarized content will receive an automatic grade of F.)
(20%)--Class attendance and participation.