HIS 218 Final Exam

Your exam will consist of an evaluation of a popular historical website. (You will have a choice of websites.) Your evaluation will consist of two parts, a design evaluation and a content assessment. Your evaluation, which should be more than one page but less than two pages (double-spaced), should be a critical, but fair, well-written, clearly-organized commentary with sentences that "flow:"

For the design evaluation, consider the criteria that we covered in unit 4 (Building a Web Culture (Style Design Standards and HTML 5)). For example, you might wish to consider:

For the content assessment, you might want to use Wikipedia (Explanation of Using Wikipedia) or Encyclopedia Britannica (How to Access Britannica). There are several issues that you will want to assess:

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You have 2 hours to complete the exam.

Famous quote, from Professor Evans, that you should remember: There are no multiple choice exams in life.

Finally, you must pass the two exams in the course with a combined score of at least 150 points out of the possible 250. If you fail to achieve that score, then you will fail the course. You may not take a required midterm or final exam late.