Course Assignments for Upcoming Academic Year

Tentative Curriculum

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Canvas is the campus-wide learning management system that integrates digital tools and resources for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of educational courses and training programs. It is a cloud-based service where instructors and students interact, collaborate, teach, learn, and communicate through course sites developed by instructors. Access Canvas with your CruzID and Gold password at https://canvas.ucsc.edu. Learn more about Canvas and support for this service here.

The department will solicit scheduling preferences on a quarterly basis. We typically solicit schedules 2-3 weeks prior to the divisional submission deadline.

• Course Scheduling Calendar

Most classes must be scheduled during approved teaching time-blocks.

Exceptions are:

• graduate seminars
• senior seminars
• labs

Courses taught at non-standard times and on irregular day patterns should be kept to a minimum, and will receive the lowest priority in the classroom assignment process. Scheduled classes that cross into multiple time blocks should be arranged to have the least impact and affect the fewest time blocks. Not only do non-standard times affect the availability of rooms but they also affect the students who can enroll in those courses. Once non-standard classes are scheduled, they cannot be moved to accommodate higher enrollments or media needs.

Instructors should check class schedule proofs each quarter to ensure that class meeting times and locations meet their needs:

Class Schedule Proofs

Professor Publishing Services offers Professors and instructors custom course readers and lab manuals that are tailored to your course, both streamlining required readings and keeping down costs for your students.

http://copycenter.ucsc.edu

All Course Proposals/Course Revisions:

Required Documents:

1. Complete Course Proposal/Revision Form
2. General Education Supplemental Form - If applicable, you will be prompted to complete this when completing undergraduate supplemental form. Please see below for more information.
   
3. Syllabus

Senior Seminars: Senior Seminars must be approved for the Disciplinary Communication (DC) General Education requirement.

This requires completion of the Disciplinary Communication (DC) Curriculum Revision to Courses in an Approved Plan form (linked document will automatically download as Word file).

If you plan on having your course satisfy a General Education requirement, you will need to submit a supplemental form for the GE requirement you would like to satisfy. Please see the supplemental form for details on how courses can satisfy each GE requirement.

• Each course may only satisfy one GE requirement.
• Students only need to satisfy one course in each of the Perspective and Practice groups.
• Students are only required to compete 2 units for the Practice GE requirement.
• Some GE requirements are met by many courses offered across campus, while some GE requirements are supported by relatively few courses. The Registrar provides a list of courses that satisfy each GE requirement here.

GE Forms (Will download as Word documents):

Course Reserves, or Reserves, is a service provided for instructors and students in which a small number of course materials (books, handouts, lecture notes, DVDs, etc.) are made available for a large number of students for a limited loan checkout.

http://library.ucsc.edu/services/course-reserves

By considering the needs of all students in your course planning, you will save time and effort. More importantly, you will provide equal access for students, while ensuring both you and the University are in compliance with Federal and State Laws, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). When working with Disability Resource Center (DRC) students, it is important to recognize that accommodations are a student right to ensure educational equity.

Disability Statement to Students in Class
To receive requests for accommodations in a timely manner, incorporate the following paragraph in your course syllabus, website, and class announcements:

UC Santa Cruz is committed to creating an academic environment that supports its diverse student body. If you are a student with a disability who requires accommodations to achieve equal access in this course, please submit your Accommodation Authorization Letter from the Disability Resource Center (DRC) to me privately during my office hours or by appointment, preferably within the first two weeks of the quarter. At that time, I would also like us to discuss ways we can ensure your full participation in the course. I encourage all students who may benefit from learning more about DRC services to contact DRC by phone at 831-459-2089 or by email at drc@ucsc.edu.

Confidentiality Reminder
Disability-related information and affiliation with the DRC are confidential matters protected by FERPA guidelines. Please keep DRC letters confidential and do not identify DRC students or acknowledge individual requests for accommodations in public.

Textbooks/Electronic Access
A significant number of DRC students require course materials in alternate formats. Students with print disabilities require texts in Braille, large print, electronic and/or audio formats. Students who are Deaf or hard-of-hearing require closed-captioning on all course video content. Blind students require image descriptions. The DRC will support you in creating access to materials. The DRC needs at least two weeks to create these materials. The University, and in some cases individual instructors, are open to grievances and lawsuits under the ADA if DRC students are not provided timely and equal access to course materials.

Be sure to:

1. Finalize your syllabus and select textbooks and readings well before the start of a quarter. Submit required book lists to the Bay Tree Bookstore, as off-campus locations are not always accessible.
2. Provide clean copies of articles for course readers, library or ERes holdings, and eCommons postings (e.g. not crooked and free of underlining and/or notes in the margins).
3. Select video content (DVDs, YouTube videos, etc.) that has closed captioning. Best practice dictates turning captions on, regardless of having a Deaf or hard-of-hearing student in class.
4. Make course content accessible (websites, PowerPoints, PDFs, etc.). For support, visit the Faculty Instructional Technology Center at McHenry Library (http://its.ucsc.edu/fitc/). Should you not want help, instructions are found here.

The DRC Testing Center is available to support many of your exam accommodations. The following accommodations are supported by the testing center. Exam accommodations that are not listed here will be supported by the instructor.

• Exams: 2.0x Time
• Exams: 2.5x Time
• Exams: Private Room
• Exams: Scribe
• Exams: Reader
• Exams: Dragon Speech-to-Text Software
• Exams: Kurzweil Text-to-Speech Software
• Exams: Short Breaks without time penalty
• Exams: Taken in Two Sessions
• Exams: Alternate test date
• Exams: Alternate test time
• Exams: Laptop
• Exams: CCTV Use
• Exams: Modified Lighting

• DRC Testing Center Workflow
• Flyer-Exam Booking-How does this work-QR
• Accommodate How To Guides for Faculty
• Accommodate How To Guides for Students

Instructors must arrange or administer exams for students who have testing accommodations not supported by the DRC Testing Center. In Anthropology, instructors are responsible for implementing exam accommodations. Contact the Anthropology Office Assistant if you would like assistance in scheduling space for exams or finding proctors by submittingthis form. Staff (including work study students) are not available to handle or proctor exams. DRC handles summer exams.

The Office Assistant can solicit availability from the Social Sciences Division proctor pool managed by Psychology. However, the instructor is responsible for making arrangements and coordinating the exam once a proctor is assigned.

Universal Design
Universal Design for Instruction (UDI) is an approach to curriculum that minimizes barriers and maximizes learning to meet the needs of all students. UDI relies on three principles: (1) using a variety of mediums for instruction, including audio (e.g. lecture), visual (e.g. video), kinesthetic (e.g. acting out a scene), etc.; (2) providing multiple forms of assessment, such as papers, presentations, projects, debates, etc.; and (3) utilizing different ways to engage and motivate students. When designing your course, consider how both classroom and curricular design may pose barriers for your students. When possible, implement UDI practices to increase student success. Information about UDI and its application in postsecondary settings can be found here:

DRC Resources
For additional information, please view the faculty and staff link on the DRC website. DRC service coordinators are available to consult faculty and staff on disability-related questions, including DRC referrals and inclusive design.The DRC is also available for presentations on a variety of topics, including UDI, stigma and bias, disability identity, working with DRC students, and more.

FITC, located in the renovated McHenry library, offers instructors, graduate students and support staff services and assistance for using the campus Learning Managment System, Canvas, and for using technology to achieve instructional goals. FITC staff and student consultants provide technical assistance by phone, by appointment, or during drop-in hours at the FITC (1330 McHenry Library, on the first floor). The FITC also includes two active learning Instructional Studios that can be reserved for a single class session or an entire quarter, a faculty lab, and media recording and editing studios. Learn more about the FITC here.

• FITC Media Recording and Editing Studios: The FITC has a full-size video studio, a Learning Glass, and individual studios for media creation and editing. Contact the FITC by email (fitc@ucsc.edu) or phone (459-5506) for a tour and to learn more.
• More Faculty Web Services: ITS provides a range of options for hosting information and websites. Review the options currently available here.

The new Policy on Academic Misconduct for Undergraduates, available at https://www.ue.ucsc.edu/academic_misconduct, simplifies many aspects of the process for faculty, students, and administrators. The policy is the result of an extensive multi-year collaboration among the Council of Provosts, Campus Counsel, the Division of Undergraduate Education, and has been endorsed by the Committee on Educational Policy (CEP), and approved by Chancellor Blumenthal. While similar in structure to the prior policy, it includes several important changes:

• It eliminates the deferred grade (DG) notation, thus disentangling the academic sanction (faculty member’s decision) from the disciplinary sanction (provost’s decision).
  • Faculty should assign grades at the normal time. Grades should take into account the academic sanction the professor is assigning for the Academic Misconduct case. Grade changes may still take place at the discretion of the faculty member and at the conclusion of the disciplinary process.
• It transforms the tribunal process into an examination of the written record in most cases.
  • Hearings will only be held when the written record does not provide sufficient information for the tribunal to reach a decision.
• It includes a table of disciplinary sanctions based on case history.
  • The table codifies the consistent treatment of cases that the Council of Provosts has developed over the past several years.

It includes expected time frames.

• Instructors should notify students within 10 working days of discovery; meet with the student within 10 working days of that notification; and submit the report form to the college provost within 5 working days of that meeting.

If you have any questions about this new policy, please do not hesitate to contact the student’s college provost or VPDUE Richard Hughey if you have any questions.

UC Santa Cruz uses the following grade notations: (see Grading Chart):

A: Excellent
B: Good
C: Fair
D: Poor
F: Fail
P: Passing
NP: Not passing
I: Incomplete
IP: In progress
W: Withdrawal

The grades of A, B, C, and D may be modified by a plus (+) or a minus (-). You will not receive credit for graduation in any course in which you receive a final grade of F or NP. The grades I and IP are temporary grades used in special circumstances. The final notation W indicates that you officially withdrew from the course before completing it.

A grade of C or better is required to satisfy general education requirements, major requirements and course pre-requisites. The new C- grade should therefore only be used to describe work that falls just below this standard. Because C- grades will not satisfy pre-requisites, GE requirements, or major requirements, students may repeat courses in which they receive a grade of C- or below. Please note that C- grades should only be given for work that would earn the grade of D under the prior grading system.

If a student selects the P/NP grading option, he or she must do C quality work or better in order to Pass; work of C- or lower quality would earn a No Pass grade. P grades will continue to satisfy course pre-requisites; GE requirements and major requirements. Under the new grading system, students will continue to receive credit toward the 180 credits needed to graduate for grades from A+ to D- or P, but not F or NP.

Narrative Evaluations\\ Instructors may include a narrative evaluation through the Narrative Evaluation System. This may be especially useful for P/NP (undergraduate) or S/U (graduate) grades. More information about the NES can be found here: https://registrar.ucsc.edu/faqs/faculty/evaluations/index.html

Grade Changes\\ Grades may be changed and Incomplete grades removed online through the AIS grade roster. Click on the Change Grades link, select the new grade and the grade change reason, enter the date the coursework was complete, and click submit. Once a grade has been changed, “Success” will appear in the status column. The grade change is immediately available to students and permanently recorded in AIS.

Please note that the “Date Completed” field should reflect the last day that the student submitted coursework, not the date that the coursework was graded. For Incomplete grades, undergraduate students have one academic quarter to submit the coursework; graduate students have three academic quarters. Coursework for any other grade change, including the resolution of DG grades, must have been submitted by the last day of the quarter in which the class was taken.

Information Technology Services provides a Scantron test scoring service to the UCSC campus. Please contact the Department Manager if you would like to arrange for Scantron test scoring.

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) will become mandatory for key UCSC services. These include but are not limited to UCPath, Google Apps (including email), MyUCSC, Canvas and CruzPay. MFA adds a second layer of protection to your UCSC accounts in addition to your username and password. This extra layer prevents anyone but you from logging in to your account, even if they know your password.

Checks are delivered on the first of the month (or the first business day after). It is against UC policy to mail paychecks or hold them longer than 5 business days. We will not forward paychecks by mail, and we will return any unclaimed paychecks to Payroll after 5 business days.

You are highly encouraged to register for Direct Deposit. There are several benefits to Direct Deposit:

• you get paid earlier (typically at least 1 day prior to pay date)
• saves paper
• saves staff time
  

Direct deposit is simple to set-up. You may find instructions at: https://financial.ucsc.edu/pages/payroll_employeeguide.aspx#paidSetup

Copying/Scanning
Self-service copying/scanning is available 24/7 for anyone who has access to the copier/mailroom and has a Pharos account. Ricoh copying instructions can be found here.

Copyright Law Information: Copyright law forbids photocopying of copyrighted materials without written permission. Permission request forms can be obtained from the Faculty Services Office or the Campus Copy Center. It is against copyright laws to copy entire books. For coursework, one copy of an article or a book chapter may be made. A limited number of copies may be made to put on reserve in the library. It is not permissible to make copies for distribution to students, since the University does not pay for text material for students.

Fax Machine
Receiving Faxes: Incoming faxes should be sent to (831) 459-5900. The fax machine is checked periodically, and incoming faxes will be placed in mail boxes of the recipient.

Sending Faxes: There is no charge for outgoing faxes. Operation is the same as any campus phone. Dial 6 to get an off-campus line.

Mailroom Support

• Faculty mailboxes for both campus and USPS mail
• Postage and mailing supplies for university-related correspondence

This office does not supply:

• Postage for expedited mail/student papers
• Postage and envelopes for letters of recommendation for undergraduates

Recycling

• Paper/cardboard
  
• Toner cartridges
  

Supplies Provided

These files are MS Word .doc. You can use them as they are, save them as MS Word templates, or upload into Google Drive.

If you would like to order keys for yourself or a student employee, contact Kayla Ott (kzott@ucsc.edu) prior to coming to the department office. Kayla will notify you when keys are ready for pickup.

There are two networked printers located in 318 Social Sciences 1. Both printers can be used for color prints.

• http://anthprfs1.ucsc.edu/home/index.html#hashHome
• http://anth-fac-serv.ucsc.edu/home/index.html#hashHome

1. Navigate to printer web pages (see links above).
2. Download printer driver (see link on bottom of printer web page).
3. Open the driver and follow the prompts.

• Detailed Instructions for Macs

Check the schedule for availability of work study students (office assistant). For large requests, please drop off your books and/or documents to be copied/scanned at least three days in advance.

If you have any tasks that you need the office assistant to complete, such as scanning or copying, please either complete the Google Form or simply add a task to the task list in the red basket in the Faculty Services mailbox (let me know if you need help locating the basket). I will make sure these tasks get relayed to our work study students. You can also email the work study students at anthwork@ucsc.edu.

Kirk Lange is the supervisor of the Office Assistant.

Please upload your syllabi every quarter here:

Anthropology Instructor Syllabus Upload

If courses are over-enrolled, the department will provide reader/grader support at a maximum of 1 hour per student enrolled in the course. For example, if you have 60 students enrolled in a course, the department will allocate up to 60 hours for the entire quarter. Please see contact the Department Manager if you would like to request reader/grader support.

The department policy for allocating TAs is 70 students for one TA; 90 students for two TAs. In some cases, the department may allocated TAs for lab courses that have less than 70 students if there are scheduled lab sections (if resources are available) and writing-intensive courses (such as theory courses).

• Please see the Anthropology TA Workload Policy.

Textbooks may be ordered through the Bay Tree Bookstore.

Please note that the Department of Anthropology does not offer desk copy support.

Instructors are responsible for ordering desk copies. Some vendors may direct faculty to the department for ordering desk copy, but Anthropology is not staffed to support these type of services.

The only in-house, departmental writing support initiative of its kind at UCSC, the Writing Assistant Program was founded in 2010 to train a cadre of strong writers to serve as a peer- to-peer support system for student writing. The writing assistants work closely with their fellow anthropology majors at every stage of the writing process, from brainstorming ideas for an assigned essay to polishing the punctuation and grammar of a major research paper. Writing Assistants are available on a first come, first serve basis during Drop-In hours. The Anthropology Writing Center is located in 235 Social Sciences 1, and Drop-In hours may be found here.