Guide to Assignments and

Grading
GENERAL GUIDELINES
To receive full credit, all assignments must follow instructions and be
submitted on time. Assignment instructions are covered in class, in this
document, and/or in the Assignments module on Canvas.
Assignments not completed in class are submitted online. It is the
students responsibility to know how to submit work online correctly, and
to be able to do so prior to the deadline.
Assignments completed in class cannot be made up. All other
assignments may be turned in up to two weeks after the deadline.
Late assignments have points taken off depending on how late they
are: 1-2 days results in 1/3 grade off, 3-7 days results in 2/3 grade off,
7-14 days results in 1 full grade off.
All work must be your own. When you submit an assignment under your
name, you are certifying that all the work in that assignment was done by
you. If the assignment includes writing done by someone else, and it is not
in quotation marks and cited, you are stealing someone else's work and
presenting it as your own. This is called plagiarism, and it is a serious
violation of academic honesty. Plagiarism is not tolerated in this course
and will result in a failing grade. For help with using and citing sources,
see resources collected together at the Writing and Reading Center
online and at the OC Library. For more information about plagiarism, see
this useful guide.
GRADES
Exams and quizzes receive numerical scores (based on how many
questions you got right!). All other assignments receive letter grades.
Letter grades are translated into numerical scores for the purposes of
calculating your final grade.

You can track your grades in Canvas using the Grades function. The
Grades function can be found by clicking Grades in the left-hand
navigation column.
The grading scale for this course is standard: 100-90% (A), 89-80% (B),
79-70% (C), 69-60% (D), 59% and below (F).
EXAMS
There are exams after the first and second parts of the couse. The exams
are not cumulative, though the final may ask you to consider works from
the first part of the course. Exams are designed to test your
comprehension of basic terms and artworks covered in each unit, with a
focus on the reading from your textbook. Exams include short-answer
format questions(T/F, Multiple Choice, Fill in the Blank, etc.) as well as
short essay questions.
Exams require a blue book. You may use the same blue book for both
exams (though you may wish to have an extra one handy in case you run
out of space). Blue books are free at the OC Library or may be purchased
at the OC Bookstore. Blue books must be new, unused, and complete (no
torn-out pages).
MASTERPIECE PROJECT
The Masterpiece Project provides students the opportunity to learn about
a selected work of art or architecture in depth. Students may choose from
any work illustrated and discussed in the textbook (only chapters assigned
for this course). To complete the assignment, students produce an Art
Guide about their selected work and share it by posting on Canvas and
making an oral Presentation about it in class.
Art Guides may take any form so long as they use at least two media
(forms of communication); popular formats include PowerPoint
presentations, websites, and illustrated essays. Peer assessment provides
an opportunity for extra credit points for the most highly rated Art Guides.

Presentations are expected to take account of instructor feedback on Art

Guides. Presentations should be 5-10 minutes in length. Presentations are
graded on the quality of the delivery as well as content.
When researching your selected artwork or building, be aware that you are
responsible for the quality of the sources used. It is strongly
recommended that you only use published (in print) sources or online
sources created and maintained by educational, cultural, or government
organizations (these often have urls ending in .edu, .org., or .gov). You
must cite your use of sources using MLA style. For help with using and
citing sources, see resources at the Writing and Reading Center
online and at the OC Library.
ONLINE DISCUSSIONS
This course includes five online discussions in which students reflect on
topics and issues raised in course materials. All discussions require an
original post of not less than 250 words and two replies of not less than 50
words each. Replies must be substantive, which means they must
respond thoughtfully, adding ideas and extending the conversation.
Missing replies drop your grade by 1/3 each.
FIELD TRIP
This class includes a field trip to a museum in the Los Angeles area. The
field trip assignment includes a gallery activity on site at the museum as
well as a brief reflection exercise in the following class meeting. Students
are asked to share their experience at the museum with the class. The field
trip is required. If you have any concerns or issues with participation,
please see me as soon as possible.
UNIT ACTIVITIES
The first and second parts of the course (Units 1 and 2) include several
smaller assignments and quizzes.
QUIZZES assess comprehension of reading assignments scheduled for
that day. They use short-answer formats and are very brief (2-3 questions).

On Canvas, grades for quizzes and small assignments are grouped into a
cumulative score for the first and second parts of the course.