PSY 491/492 Exam Information

EXAM EXPECTATIONS:
Since this is a "W” designated course, along with the content, your grades will be determined by your writing. Therefore it is imperative that you take great care in producing a scholarly written document that follows some of these suggested guidelines.

1. You must use an accepted scholarly writing style. If you plan to go into psychology you should use APA style. If you are planning any other post-graduate activity then any scholarly style would be acceptable, i.e., Chicago Manual of Style, Strunk and White, Terrabiar5, etc. If you have any questions on style, check with me before writing.
2. Your papers should be well developed and organized in terms of content and the logical development of the material.
3. You should keep a dictionary, thesaurus and the terms and glossaries handed out in class to insure the proper use of terms and words and their proper spelling.
4. You must proof and edit your paper carefully to insure that silly and easily corrected errors don't get by you.
5. If you have serious problems in writing the writing lab is available from the English Dept.
6. Your paper's content must demonstrate an understanding of the material and the ability to articulate that information in a readable way.
7. You must be able to demonstrate your knowledge of and ability to use the concepts developed in class and tie them to the material we are studying.
8. Before each exam, we will devote a class to pulling together the material for the upcoming exam and develop a generic outline that each of you can then use as the starting point for your individual papers.
9. I will give detailed feedback on each exam to allow for corrective measures as appropriate to insure that the next exam will correct those errors and allow for steady improvement across the semester.

Exam Schedule

The following material is for Fall 2004

Exam One: Describe the rise of Nazism using the basic constructs of the course as discussed in class and in the text.

Exam Two: Using the same basic constructs, and all resources we have used, describe the Holocaust and discuss the perpetrators.

Exam Three: Pulling everything together, discuss the liberation of the camps, the impact on survivors and a final profile of the perpetrators.

The following is for future classes.

Exam One: Describe and discuss the Nature of Prejudice and the Nature of Movements and the Basic Constructs and develop a model that integrates these concepts and helps us understand how they might explain movements of genocide and movements of civil and human rights.

Exam Two: Applying your model from the first exam, describe the development of the Continuum of Destruction and the Genocide called the Holocaust. 

Exam Three: Again using the model from the first exam, describe the development of a Continuum of Change that produced the Civil rights Movement and discuss strategies for combating prejudice and teaching tolerance. 

Since this is a "W" designated course it is imperative that your papers be written in a scholarly manner. Use APA style if you plan to continue in Psychology or any scholarly style if not. We will discuss the exam format before the first exam.