Makeups are possible in the event of a documented unexpected emergency in a student's life or through prior arrangement with the instructor when the student has advance knowledge of a compelling conflict in schedule, including religious obligations and observances. Makeups under these two circumstances will not be penalized. All other makeup requests are subject to denial or serious penalty.
The midterm and the final each comprises 30 percent of your final grade and contain a mixture of objective questions (e.g., true-false and multiple choice) and subjective essay questions. Both exams will also include map identifications. The final is not comprehensive. The midterm will be around the 14th of March, and you can count on at least a week's warning.
Each of the short reports counts for 10 percent of your overall grade and should be about 3-4 pages long, typewritten or word processed and very carefully edited. Writing mechanics count for a third of each report's grade.
The book report summarizes the main themes of a novel pertaining to California, relating it to the regional chapters in the Peters et al. book describing the setting of the novel. This report is due on the 7th of March.
The family history report should show how your family (or just you) came to be in California, the different places in California where you and yours have worked and lived, how your family has contributed to the state, and how you came to California State University, Long Beach. This report is due the 30th of March.
The imaginary family history will be just like your own family history report, except this time you will make up another student in class with you, who must be of a completely different ethnic background than yours. You will pretend to be this student and then write about how "your" family came to be in California, their experiences here, how they've contributed to California, and how "you" came to be at Cal State Long Beach. This report is due on the 27th of April.
The mapping exercise will involve your updating one of the demographic maps in Part IV of the Hornbeck text to reflect data from the 1990 Census, which you'll collect from the U.S. Census web site. This map and brief interpretation will be due on the 4th of May and is worth 10 percent of your overall grade.