Course Syllabus

ABOUT THIS COURSE

  • Course Description & Prerequisites: (Include catalog course description & prerequisites )
  • Class times: (List Days / (Start to End) Times)
  • Office hours: (List Days / (Start to End) Times)
    • List holidays or other days, such as non-contact days, on which classes will not be held.
  • (New) Include an image and/or statement that recognizes and celebrates diversity and inclusion. (Review the Canvas for Faculty's Syllabus Review Guide on Equity and Inclusion - The Canvas Faculty resource is linked in your Canvas course navigation menu)

About your Instructor

  • (Include a brief introduction and/or teaching philosophy, and (new) invite students to contact you via the Canvas Inbox - this way all interactions are documented automatically, and everyone can reply via their selected email or Canvas).

Materials and Textbooks

  • Required textbooks: (Texts should be current; within five years in most cases. Include a .jpg, .png, or .gif image file, if possible.)
  • Required tools/supplies: (For example calculators, scrubs, etc.)
  • Supplemental resources: (Additional texts and resources that are considered supplemental.)

Course Modality

This course is _______.

RTC: Four Instructional Modalities 

  1. Face-to-Face/Web-Enhanced: Based on the state’s response to COVID-19:  Online instruction will replace face to face instructional time.
  2. Hybrid:  A combination of face-to-face meetings and online instruction. Based on the state’s response to COVID-19.
    • Hybrid = online instruction will replace face to face instructional time 
    • Hybrid A/B = A/B Split – hands-on portion delayed to return to campus time
  3. Flex: Class exists fully online and fully face to face and students have a choice of how to attend on any given day.  Based on Washington state’s response to COVID19: Online instruction will replace face-to-face instructional time.  
  4. Online: 100% online. (This modality of an online class will not change.) 

More Help for Your Success!

  1. LRCC (student technology resources, tutoring, etc), and Emergency Resources (jobs, food, childcare, etc), are both listed in the HELP (icon/button), at the bottom of your Canvas account's navigation menu. RTC's Mental Health Support is also listed here, https://rtc.edu/behavioral-health

  2. Campus-wide policies and resources for students are found in the Student Resources

  3. Canvas Help:
    1. Email eLearning@rtc.edu
    2. Live Chat https://sites.google.com/view/rtc-elearning 

Land Acknowledgement

We acknowledge that RTC sits uninvited on the ancestral land of the Puget Salish people, including the Duwamish, Suquamish , Snoqualmie, Tulalip, and  Muckleshoot nations. We are grateful to the original inhabitants of this land, upon which we gather and dialogue.

We also acknowledge our increasingly virtual world, in which RTC’s work is done across multiple indigenous lands, in some cases, away from Puget Salish territories.  We thank the original caretakers of our local lands and waters, who are still here.

Beyond acknowledgment, we each have an obligation to learn about and support our local tribes. Find out how on the Student Resources course navigation menu tab, which includes scholarships for Indigenous students.

Note: If you know you will be absent from course activities due to reasons of faith or conscience, you may request reasonable accommodations so that your grades will not be affected. There is no penalty if you do this. Such requests must be made within the first two weeks of the course. You must let your instructor know and follow the procedure provided in RTC's Student Rights and Responsibilities on the Student Resources, located in every RTC Canvas course navigation menu.

COURSE OUTCOMES

What you will take away

  • (List what students will learn by taking this course. Course outcomes can be found at the RTC website.)

You will meet these outcomes by

  • (Include an explanation of how outcomes will be met.  For example, “Small group discussions will be used to collaborate on important points; your final presentation will be used to evaluate your understanding of how to_____”)
  • (Explain how the course will utilize Canvas beyond the grade book. “Expect occasional updates and announcements from me via Canvas” or “You will take weekly quizzes in Canvas,” etc.)

TIPS for SUCCESS

  • Clearly state conditions for student success; “To be successful in this course, you….”

COURSE GRADING

  • Distribution of Grades: (Describe how students will be graded (for example, research paper 30%, tests 20% etc). Set up your course assignment group weights)
  • Class Policies: List class attendance/participation, late work, expectation, etc.

All campus-wide policies & resources for students are in our Student Resources course navigation's tab/link

RTC GRADING SCALE

GPA

Overall Rating

Performance Indicators  -  This student:

4.0

95 - 100%

Excellent Performance
  • demonstrates consistent mastery of learning outcomes for the course;
  • demonstrates ability to interpret, integrate, and apply learning outcomes beyond the context of the course through application of critical and creative thinking skills;
  • completes work assignments that consistently exceed requirements;
  • demonstrates consistent leadership in class-participation activities.

3.9

93 - 94%

3.8

92-91%

3.7

90%

3.6

89%

3.5

88%

Above-Average Performance
  • demonstrates a high level of competence in learning outcomes for the course;
  • demonstrates ability to interpret, integrate, and apply learning outcomes within the context of the course through application of critical and creative thinking skills;
  • completes work assignments that consistently meet requirements;
  • contributes regularly to class-participation activities

3.4

87%

3.3

86%

3.2

85%

3.1

84%

3.0

83%

2.9

82%

2.8

81%

2.7

80%

2.6

79%

2.5

78%

Average Performance
  • demonstrates an adequate level of competence in learning outcomes for the course;
  • demonstrates competent ability to interpret, integrate, and apply learning outcomes within the context of the course;
  • completes work assignments that satisfy minimum requirements for the course;
  • satisfies minimum requirements for class-participation activities

2.4

77%

2.3

76%

2.2

75%

2.1

74%

2.0

73%

1.9

72%

Minimum Performance
  • demonstrates minimum competence in some learning outcomes for the course;
  • completes work assignments that usually meet minimum requirements;
  • contributes inconsistently or infrequently to class-participation activities.

1.8

71%

1.7

70%

1.6

69%

1.5

68%

1.4

67%

1.3

66%

1.2

65%

1.1

64%

1.0

63% -61%
below

61%

Unsatisfactory Performance
  • cannot demonstrate competence in many or fundamental outcomes for the course;
  • submits work assignments that frequently do not meet minimum requirements, or does not complete the assigned work;
  • does not satisfy minimum requirements for attendance or contribution to class activities.