There are three assignments (exercises and essays) to be completed during the course.
All written assignments are expected to conform to standard conventions of presentation and style. You should purchase a good style manual, such as:
Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations.
It will help you to prepare footnotes and a bibliography for your assignment; copies are available in the York Bookstore. But whatever style system you use, be sure to use it correctly and consistently.
Assignment Deadlines
Assignment 1 - Monday, October 29, 2001
Assignment 2 - Monday, January 21, 2002
Assignment 3 - Monday, March 18, 2002.
All assignments must be given personally to a T.A. in N424 Ross by 4:00 p.m. of the deadline.
Keep a copy of your assignment and of your "rough" work. All assignments must be your own individual work. Collaboration with other students is not permitted, and plagiarism will be severely penalized.
For further information, please see the Senate Policy on Academic Honesty.
Late Assignments
Deadlines for assignments are extended only for unforeseen circumstances at the course director’s discretion. Penalties for late submission of assignments will be assessed at the rate of a half letter grade per day unless medical or compassionate grounds for lateness are demonstrated to the Course Director and corroborated by detailed letters from a physician or advisor (these letters will be verified by phone with the signers). You must speak to the Course Director to avoid the penalty. Do not just submit your assignment with a note attached.
Please note: Late assignments must be submitted before non-late assignments are returned. Submit late assignments only to the receptionist in the Department of Geography Main Office, N430 Ross. Never leave an assignment under or upon an office door.
Disputes
Assignment grades may be discussed with the marker no later than two weeks after the return of the assignments. In impasse cases only see the lecturer who set the assignment. The lecturer may refer the work to another marker, whose grade (which may be lower, higher, or the same as the original grade) will be considered final and unappealable. In such cases the student must supply:
(1) the original graded assignment;
(2) a fresh unmarked copy of the original assignment; and
(3) a rationale supporting the request for reappraisal. Note that reappraisals are not granted automatically.
