Robert Sirabian
Office: 425 Collins Classroom Center
Office Phone: 346-4333
Email: rsirabia@uwsp.edu

Office Hrs:  TBA
                                              

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Course Objective

Texts
 

Sports in Literature, 2nd. ed.,  Bruce Emra (anthology)
In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle, Madeline Blais
Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand

Texts can be purchased at the university bookstore

Requirements/Grading Policy
  

You should be prepared to discuss all of the reading assignments for the days they are scheduled in class.  It is useful to mark key passages or scenes that point to central concerns or ideas in the works that are read.  Readings not in the above texts will be available online or given as handouts.  It is the student's responsibility to read online assignments and obtain handouts.  

Assignments due on a given day must be submitted during the class period.  Having an assignment finished but not printed out and ready to hand in is late.  Late assignments will be accepted one day after the original due date, but will lose one letter grade or the point equivalent.  After that, no credit will be given.  Assignments due electronically must be received by the day and time specified or the above late will policy will also apply.  For any special circumstances, please contact the instructor ahead of time.  Also, no incompletes will given in the course. 

There will be weekly writing assignments, quizzes, and two examinations (a midterm and a final).  Grades will be determined using the percentages below; they are not based simply on effort or my subjective opinion. The weight of these is as follows:  
 

*To be determined by the following point scale:  A=100-90, B=89-80, C=79-70, D=69-60.  Please save all written work until after grades are received.  It is the student's responsibility to produce assignments handed back if questions about grades arise.

Attendance
  

Regular attendance is your responsibility and is essential for success in the course.  As stated in the UWSP Course Catalog, you cannot "cut" classes.  Any student who misses two weeks of class (six days for three-days-a-week classes; four days for classes meeting twice a week) may fail the course.  Students are responsible for all work missed due to excused absences; therefore, it is the student's responsibility to determine work that needs to be completed and to follow up with all logistical requirements. Note:  It may not always be possible to makeup missed quizzes.  Please refrain from looking at cell phones

during class; also use the washroom or drinking fountain before or after class, not during class.

Plagiarism (from the Latin "to kidnap")
  

You will be expected to do your own work throughout the course.  Intentionally or unintentionally passing off the ideas, words, or sentences of others (e.g., published authors or other students) as your own is plagiarism, which will result in failing the plagiarized assignment or the course.  Please review the University policy regarding plagiarism. 

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Dr. Sirabian
Office: 425 Collins Classroom Center
Office Phone: 346-4333
Email: rsirabia@uwsp.edu

Office Hours: TBA

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Assignments may be modified as necessary.  Weekly assignments are not all listed here; they will be given in class/by email.  It will be useful to read the biographical introductions for each author we study. 

Readings will be assigned from our textbook and passed out (Handouts).  Handouts are marked on the syllabus; all other readings are from our textbook.  SL=Sports in Literature

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