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      Politics 190
 

Winter Term, 2004 / Wednesday, B Hour / Northen Auditorium, Leyburn Library
Professor Grefe and Professor Strong

Course Outline

January 7 -- Introduction and Web Site "Tour"
January 14 -- Cyber-Research
January 21 -- Finding and Evaluating Books -- Annie and Library Catalogs
January 28 -- Research in Political Science -- Professor Strong
February 4 -- Periodical Bibliographies and Indexes
February 11 -- General Indexes
February 25 -- Specialized Indexes
March 3 -- U.S. Government Publications, Part 1
March 10 -- cancelled
March 17 -- U.S. Government Publications, Part 2
March 24 -- General Reference Sources
Guidelines

Final grades will be determined primarily by performance on weekly assignments. Completed assignments must be submitted as e-mail attachments before the next class meeting.

All late papers will be penalized one letter grade for each day late.

Attendance is taken into consideration in the formulation of final grades.
There will be no mechanism (extra-credit, make-up assignments, etc.) to raise final grades.










Page updated 10 March 2004
Comments and Questions: Dick Grefe
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