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What you personally accomplished during the semester, as judged by your instructor, is the correct measure for your final grade.

As a college student, part of your final grade is your ability to seek out, read, and process information that is offered. The strong student will do just that and will be more accurate, more prompt and more complete on all of their work.

You do not have to agree with the textbook or with my thoughts, but you do need to have a "learned opinion." As an example, you might say that Durkheim saw society as cooperation (that's showing the learned part), but that, in your experience, you have seldom seen cooperation (your opinion). It would then be well if you would give an example of your opinion so that the class can discuss it openly.  

College is not high school and universities are even tougher. At each school that I teach, I have been instructed to teach as if I was at the flagship school --the University of Utah. Since I teach there every semester, I am comfortable with that mandate.

Other classes you may take may operate differently and that is the instructor's prerogative.

I am not only teaching the material, but also teaching you to deal on a University level and on the level that your employer will insist upon. I am also expecting high ethical standards from you. If successful, these goals will help you time and time again throughout your life and will not end with the final grade --whatever it may be.