FAS FALL 2009-2010 FINAL EXAM REQUEST FORM

FAS Exams Office | 20 Garden Street Rooms 8 and 9 | Cambridge, MA 02138 | 617.495.1542 | fasexams@fas.harvard.edu

Required Information:

Course: (i.e. GOV 10)
Catalog Number: (The four- or five-digit number below the course title in     Courses of Instruction)
Course Head:
Department:

Instructions:

  1. Fill out required information on left.
  2. Select an exam category below.
  3. If you intend to hold a standard Registrar-scheduled exams:
    • Complete the section immediately below: "Options for Courses Holding a Registrar-Scheduled Exam".
    • Complete the related subsection entitled Exam Preferences and Technical Needs.
  4. If you intend to assign your students a substitution in lieu of a standard Registrar-scheduled exam:
    • Scroll down to the section entitled "Options for Courses Not Holding a Registrar-Scheduled Exam".
  5. After completing the appropriate section, click the "Submit" button at the bottom of the page.

Contact the Exams Office at fasexams@fas.harvard.edu with any questions.


Options for Courses Holding Registrar-Scheduled Exams:


Select a category below. All exams scheduled by the Registrar’s Office are three (3) hours in length. If you opt to hold a Registrar-scheduled exam (Category A, B, or D), you must also complete the Exam Preferences and Technical Needs section below.

Standard Three-Hour Exam for All Students Enrolled / No Substitutions

Three-hour exam is scheduled by the FAS Exams Office for all enrolled students.

All substitutions must be completed by Dec. 11, 2009, the last day of Reading Period. No work may be submitted after this date.

D. Optional Exam Substitution for Certain Students / Standard Exam for All Other Students 

Substitutions can be offered only to a grouping of students in the course that are based on an academic or pedagogical rationale. This category may not be used to offer individual students an exam substitution.  All exam substitutions must be completed by the last day of Reading Period. Requests for this category must be reviewed and approved by the FAS Registrar. If the request is approved, the instructor must provide a list of the exempted students to the Exams Office no later than December 1, 2009. Describe/indicate:

The academic grouping of students to whom you will offer a substitution:
The nature of the exam substitution you intend to offer:
Due date of this substitution (no later than Dec. 11, 2009):
How it is more appropriate academically for this group of students than the standard three-hour exam:

Final Examination Preferences and Technical Needs

Important Notes:
The details you provide below will be used for notification, planning, and room scheduling purposes only. If the exam requires media equipment, it is the responsibility of the course instructor to contact the appropriate media group to request and book the equipment. The Exams Office will not make these arrangements. The Exams Office will provide bluebooks for pick-up at designated locations.

As H1N1, previously known as swine flu, seems to be transmitted easily and rapidly through residential communities, there is a possibility that Harvard may contend with major student absences at the end of the term. You may be called upon to prepare, for students who become ill, a makeup exam to be administered before Winter Recess. In addition, it may be prudent to identify a substitution to a regular proctored exam should we need to move in that direction.


1.  Teaching Fellows and Faculty Assistant

Head TF Name Email Phone
TF Name Email Phone
Faculty Ass't Email Phone

2.  Blue Books

How many Blue books will your exam require per student:

3.  Aural/Oral Component

Does your exam have an Aural/Oral component?

Yes

No

4.  Audiovisual Equipment

Indicate below any audiovisual equipment you will need.

None Data Projector
Cassette Player VCR
CD Player DVD Player
Microphone PC - Will you use your own laptop?
(1) Slide Projector (2) Slide Projector Mac - Will you use your own Mac laptop? Yes No
(1) Screen (2) Screen Other media:

5.  Jointly-Offered and Cross-Listed Courses

Is the course jointly-offered with another school?     Yes No
Jointly-offered with which school?
Which school will hold the final examination?
Please indicate the total enrollment for the course:

Is the course cross-listed with another FAS department?   Yes No
Cross-listed with which department?


Options for Courses Not Holding Registrar-Scheduled Exams :


No Exam for Any Student / All Students Assigned Exam Sub Instead (Lower Enrollment Courses Eligible)

Open only to courses that meet one of the criteria below; receives automatic approval.

All substitutions must be completed by Dec. 11, 2009, the last day of Reading Period.

Check one of the criteria below:

No Exam for Any Student / ALL Students Assigned Exam Substitution Instead

Open to courses that do not meet one of the criteria for Cateogy C1 above but would like to administer an exam substitution nonetheless. All substitutions must be completed by the last day of Reading Period.


Requests for this category must be reviewed and approved by the FAS Registrar. Describe/indicate:

The nature of the exam substitution you intend to offer:
Due date of this substitution (no later than Dec. 11, 2009):
How it is more appropriate academically than the standard three-hour exam:

FAS Exams Office | 20 Garden Street Rooms 8 and 9 | Cambridge, MA 02138 | 617.495.1542 | fasexams@fas.harvard.edu