
Registered students earn academic credit at Penn State by completing the following assignments. Opportunities to demonstrate learning include the following, and grades will be based on percentages assigned to each of several components of the course as follows:
- Class participation: Individual participation via online discussion forums and comments on lesson pages. Students will be encouraged to post questions and answer each others' questions on the online forums. Class participation makes up 35% of your grade.
- Writing Assignments: Six short writing assignments involve responding to academic articles and researching a problem with students as a collaborative team. Writing assignments make up 25% of your grade.
- Term Project: The term project for this course involves multiple components that you'll create to develop a professional report or proposal. The term project is worth 40% of your course grade. The deliverables are:
- 1 Paragraph Abstract indicating which project option you choose and describing in general terms what you will cover
- Project Structural Outline (headings and several bullets under each heading for the main topics you'll cover)
- Full Draft of Term Project
- Revised Final Term Project
- Video Summary of Term Project