{"id":35,"date":"2013-05-19T03:36:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T03:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2016-03-28T09:41:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T14:41:13","slug":"requirements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/requirements","title":{"rendered":"Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<em>Note: All due dates appear in the course &#8220;Reading Schedule&#8221; at left<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In-Class Quizzes<\/span> (x3): 15%\u00a0 (5% each)<\/strong>\u00a0 Short (15 min.) assessments combining multiple-choice and &#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221;-style questions drawn from required readings and lectures.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Comparative Paper<\/span>: 15% <\/strong>A short (5-7 page) original essay comparing and contrasting soldiers&#8217; memoirs in WWII and the Vietnam conflict. Full instructions can be found by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/files\/2016\/03\/Essay_2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Course Exams (x2)<\/span>: 40% (20% each)<\/strong>\u00a0A two-part written exam consisting of a Short-Answer Identification section (40%) and an Essay question (60%).<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Final Exam<\/span>: 30%.<\/strong> A <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>cumulative<\/em><\/span> exam &#8211; designed to test students&#8217; knowledge and understanding of US Military History from America&#8217;s founding to the present, the course final will be weighted toward subjects\/topics<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>addressed during the last third of the semester. The Final will be similar in format to previously administered exams (see above).<\/p>\n<p><strong>[For a description of Prof. Palmer&#8217;s grading scale\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/teaching-2\/general-policies-guidelines\/the-grading-scale\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Note: All due dates appear in the course &#8220;Reading Schedule&#8221; at left) In-Class Quizzes (x3): 15%\u00a0 (5% each)\u00a0 Short (15 min.) assessments combining multiple-choice and &#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221;-style questions drawn from required readings and lectures. Comparative Paper: 15% A short (5-7 page)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6FjHf-z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":60,"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}