Departmental Copying Policy

Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Spanish Language Curriculum

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Departmental Copying Policy

Prompted by the university’s and, in particular, our department’s projected financial cut-backs, we will need to reduce copying of pedagogical materials to an absolute minimum, e.g. to ZERO!

As a direct consequence, starting the Fall quarter of 2004 (there is no photocopying in the Spanish & Portuguese Department during Summer Sessions), we will no longer be able to provide our Spanish-language students with any handouts, no matter how pedagogically sound and worthwhile they may be.

Based on years of experience, handouts generally consist of information falling into at least seven different categories:

1. printed web pages of cultural content for reading activities

2. copies of pages from the "yellow book"

3. worksheets (usually from other text books)

4. "summary" pages of grammatical content, created by an instructor

5. reading material from other sources to enhance contextualization

6. lyrics from songs for cultural/grammar activities

7. rote drill-type games for verb conjugations

It goes without saying, of course, that quizzes (up to a maximum of seven pages per student, per quarter), tests, and final exams still need to be copied on paper, and the department will allow for those copies to be made using your assigned departmental copy code during any quarter in which you are functioning as a TA or Instructor.

At the beginning of the quarter, the Language Curriculum Director will advise you of the projected number of "allowed" photocopies for your course. Absolutely no personal copying will be permitted!

Photocopying privileges have always been limited to instructional materials. However, in spite of an informal "honor" system, there has been a necessity to bill TAs and Instructors for "over-copying" in the past. Therefore, you need to be aware that you will be responsible for any copies made above your allowed limit (as determined by me at the end of each quarter as usual), at a rate of $0.25 per copy. You will be invoiced at the end of the quarter, if necessary.

In the face of this new obligation to exercise extreme restraint with respect to photocopying, there will still be many different ways to allow your students to enjoy the benefit of the wonderful handouts you are used to create/copy for them.

Depending on the type of handout you want to produce, you can:

1. create Quia! activities, quizzes and sessions (the department will continue to pay our annual subscription fee)

2. put handouts on your webpage and ask students to print out the respective pages and bring them to class

3. create "___.pdf" files

4. create MS Word files

5. create MS PowerPoint files (or over-heads)

6. etc.

Please, be aware that the School of Humanities constantly offers workshops that teach you how to produce those types of files/pages should you not already know how to do it on your own, as well as workshops on getting the most out of our high-tech classrooms in Humanities Hall.

Let’s show that we can be responsible and

share in the burden of the State-imposed cut-backs!

Where there’s a Will, -there’s a Way!

Department of Spanish & Portuguese Spanish Language Curriculum

always changing ... ... always up-to-date!

Departmental Copying Policy

Let’s show that we can be responsible and

share in the burden of the State-imposed cut-backs!

Where there’s a Will, -there’s a Way!

Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Spanish Language Curriculum