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What you can expect from me:
I will provide you with a clear, organized course that is designed to ensure you meet our course outcomes in a meaningful manner.
I will provide a variety of assignments to ensure your learning needs are met.
I will be actively present in your learning.
I will provide a supportive and safe environment for you to share and discuss ideas with your peers.
I will reach out to you when I sense that you need support.
I will treat you with dignity and respect and be flexible to support your individual needs.
I won't be perfect but I will be authentic. I am human and will make mistakes at times. I will view mistakes as an opportunity to learn and grow.
I will challenge you so you can reach your goals and hopefully even exceed your own expectations.
What I expect from you:
What I expect from you:
You will show up! Strive to be an active participant in this course and not miss more than 4 classes. This ensures your success and is also inline with Saddleback's attendance policy. I don't want to drop you for missing too many classes!
You will do as much of our coursework as you can and aim to meet due dates to ensure your success.
You will commit at least 12 hours a week to our coursework.
You will check into Canvas and your email at least two times a week to ensure you haven't missed an important announcement or assignment
You will reach out if you need guidance or feel overwhelmed at any time and maintain an open line of communication with me so I understand how to support you.
You will strive to regularly contribute to collaborative activities to ensure other members of the community have ample opportunity to read/listen, reflect, and respond to your ideas.
You will treat me and your peers with dignity and respect.
You will do your best to have patience with technology. There will be hiccups, expect them. We will get through them together.
You will challenge yourself. Wherever you are in your writing and collegiate journey, challenge yourself to whatever that next step is. Maybe it's writing a full essay. Maybe it's submitting your work on time. Maybe it is stepping up in the complexity of your writing. Whatever it is, I'm here to support you and want to help you take that next step.
Authenticity & AI Usage
Authenticity & AI Usage
This course values authentic thought and voice. This means we want to hear your thoughts and we want to hear your voice, even if that means your grammar isn't perfect or you have an accent in your writing. That's ok! Grammar is a set of rules that will come with practice just as a kid learns the rules of baseball or how music cords work together. But we can't learn those rules if there is no authentic attempts to do so. Today, it is easy to succumb to AI and using a translator or Grammarly. I get it. It's easy. But it also isn't you. Maybe AI cleans up your general ideas, but the words are not yours. The words are only yours once you embrace them, learn them, and make them your own.
Your authentic voice is a powerful thing that sets you apart from everyone else. It is how you present your ideas to the world. And, there are a lot of things and people who want to truncate your voice or even silence it. So do not give it away so willingly to an AI machine or a grammar checker that rewrites your sentence to "fix" them. Pledge to bring your authentic self, ideas, ponderings, musing, words, broken sentences, bring it all to this class! You and this class will be better for it!
And besides, those AI machines use a ton of water and are bad for the environment! hahaha
What this ultimately means is any form of AI, translators, Grammerly, etc., are not to be used to generate ideas, write, or edit your work. You can use a basic grammar checker, but do not use it to change your sentence structure. Any use of these technologies are considered cheating and therefore that work will receive a zero and the offense will be reported to the school's disciplinary committee to ensure this is not a repeated behavior. I do reserve the right to go back to previous assignments and reevaluate them for AI use if necessary.
In the end, students use these technologies because they want a short-cut or they do not feel adequate in completing the work. But you are not in this class alone! We work together through discussion boards and peer editing. And I am here to help! Email me, come to office hours, reach out! I want you to succeed and it is my job to help you do so! jbudica@saddleback.edu or via Canvas inbox.
For your convenience, here is Saddleback College's Policy on other forms of plagiarism. Other forms of plagiarism include:
Extensive help from friends or family, including line editing (changing words for "better ones")
Copying "sections" or parts or others' work
Using previously submitted work from other classes or this one, unless permitted by the instructor
Submitting any work that is not your original words, thoughts, ideas, and sentence construction
Course Content & Trigger Warnings
Course Content & Trigger Warnings
Please note that this class will cover readings and discussions that include adult themes and issues. We may read, view, and discuss mature subject matter (relating to the arts, entertainment, sexuality, race, class, immigration, war, religion, politics, nature, science, crime, violence, etc., as well as a range of points of view on those issues). As challenging as those subjects may be, you are encouraged to remain in the class, to learn about diverse points of view, and to--tactfully and respectfully--contribute your point of view. If you would like to be warned about particular content, please inbox me, and I'll be happy to prepare you via trigger warnings. All participants will honor this boundary. Please note that hate speech is prohibited (definition: “any advocacy of national, racial, or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility, or violence”).
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