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POL 101 Tutorials: 12-3

In order to facilitate small group discussions, weekly tutorials are held for POL-101 students. These sessions allow students to discuss readings from the Tutorial Reader and to ask questions about the lecture material.

Tutorials start in Week 2 - Monday, September 10th to Friday, September 14th

Participation Marks include 10 points for general participation in tutorials and 5 points for attendance. Students may miss one tutorial, but each subsequent absence results in one point deduction from the 5 attendance marks. All exceptions must be approved by the instructor. Failure to bring a draft of your introduction to the tutorial in Week 9 will result in one point off from your tutorial participation marks.

If English is an additional language for you, and you feel a bit shy about speaking in tutorials, consider attending the English conversation groups provided by SFU's Learning Commons
 

Guidelines for Tutorial Participation Marks

The following guidelines for the participation marks, which will be awarded using the following scale as a guildeline. This points described on the scale below represent relative placements, and actual grades will be placed anywhere on the 0-10 scale that the TA feels is appropriate.

• 0/10 A student will get zero if they never voluntarily contributed to the classes discussions, and even asked a direct question they were unable to say anything that indicated they had read or understood the tutorial readings.
• 3/10 A student should get a mark in this range if they never voluntarily contributed to class discussions, but were able to say something if asked direct questions. However, their responses would not have indicated much familiarity or understanding of the material.
• 5/10 Students should get a pass, 5/10, if they occasionally contributed voluntarily to class discussions. Or, they only spoke when asked direct questions, but they then gave very good answers which indicated they had read and understood the material.
• 6.5/10 A student with 6.5 indicates “acceptable” performance, which means they voluntarily contributed more than just occasionally. They may have sometimes not read or understood the readings, and other times have clearly read and understood.
• 8/10 A student who contributed frequently and made useful contributions most of the time.
• 9/10 Students who participated constructively and actively each class; they would help answer the questions or misunderstandings of others students. They would have always read and understood the tutorial readings.
• 10/10 Only the truly exceptional student who could teach the class should get 10.

Yellow highlight denotes sections which might still have room for new students

simon fraser university - - political science department

This class is taught by Andrew Heard

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