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Wymagania i	-czytanie lektur
forma zaliczenia:	- obecność na wykładach
	- egzamin ustny
	Credit requirements:
	-reading
	- attendance
	- orał exam

BA Seminar

COURSE DESCRIPTION

dr Grzegorz Welizarowicz American Studies Program Office: Room 3.21 E-mail: [e-mail]

The seminar is dedicated to developing individual research projects of students woiking towards their BA thesis in the American Studies Program.

Areas of interest include American literaturę, culture. history, society. American politics, etc.

Students will be introduced to the techniąues of writing and the rules of citation.

A list of topics will be proposed but individual interests will be encouraged.

Keeping a steady development of the research and writing throughout the whole year is of utmost importance therefore deadlines for mid-term and the term papers have been set. (See below)

Keeping the deadlines is of utmost importance! Late papers will be deducted two points per day. Failure to keep a deadline might result in jeopardizing chances for course completion.

Weekly attendance at the seminar and weekly reports on the projecfs progress are obligatoiy. Failure to attend seminars and keep deadlines may result in the expulsion from the seminar.

Students are expected to have completed their dissertations by June 01, 2012.

GRADES AND EVALUATION

Long orał project - for each class a differcnt student (or students) will be asked to prepare a class presentation on a their project. Outlines of the presentation must be distributed among other students on the day of the presentation.

Shoit and longer writing assignments including two mid-term papers and two term papers.

-    MID-TERM WINTER SEMESTER PAPER due NOYEMBER 25.2012.

-    WINTER SEMESTER FINAŁ PAPER duc JANUARY 20. 2012.

-    MID-TERM SUMMER SEMESTER PAPER due APRIL 05. 2012.

-    SUMMER SEMESTER PAPER due MAY 25.2012.

ALL PAPERS HAVE TO CONFORM TO THE FOLLOWING STANDARDS:

Font 12, Times New Roman, double spaccd, do not justify texts.

writing skills reference book:

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th edition or later. Modem Language Association.