The Sacred Journey

ISEM 101

Assignment 1: Assessing Your Growth - Exams

As a neophyte in a rite of passage and on a pilgrimage, it is important to periodically assess your growth.  To accomplish this you will take three exams, covering lecture presentations, events, videos, and textbook readings. These exams will be essay in nature and not "objective," asking true-false or multiple-choice questions. In each exam, a series of short and long essay questions will be posed.  You will be asked to select and respond to a limited number of these questions.  Each of the three exams are cumulative, as questions are draw upon materials considered and discussed in previous sections of the course.  Exams must be taken at their assigned times and dates. In the event of a documented emergency, a make-up essay exam must be take within one week of returning to class.  The student must notify the instructor prior to an absence from an exam date (by phone or e-mail, or in person).

Grading criteria, for 50% of your total grade:

 

• accurately presents the material requested in the questions.
• completely covers the breadth of issues posed in the questions.
• refers to and integrates appropriate case examples from the textbooks, videos, class presentations to illustrate concepts developed in the essay response.
• makes theoretical and/or ethnographic connections with related cultural expressions.
• reflects on the implications of the issues posed in the questions as they relate to the student's own experiences.
• written in a legible and well-organize style with concepts and illustrative examples clearly articulated.

Please note that a Study Guide has been prepared to assist you in your preparations for the exams.