POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

1. Professionalism: students are required to adopt a professional attitude toward class conduct and fellow students. Please be on time and leave when the class is over. Please do not engage in discussions that are unrelated to class material and distract your fellow students. Cell phones and pagers should be turned off and calls should be taken after class is over except in cases of extreme emergency such as imminent mortality or imprisonment.
2. Work should be done on time. Late or missed work will be penalized by being lowered a whole grade for each day. Missed in-class assignments cannot be made up because they are part of the attendance/participation grade which requires that you attend class.
3. Attendance is mandatory and not an option. Students who do not regularly attend class will be dropped or receive an F.
4. You are expected to keep up with the reading assignments and participate in class discussions. Consistent failure to keep up with the readings will seriously compromise your ability to succeed in the course.
5. If you have any suggestions, questions, problems, or concerns, feel free to talk with me after class or during my office hours. I will be available at other times by appointment. My office is at Olney 101b.
6. Plagiarism, cheating, and other forms of academic dishonesty are serious violations of personal and educational integrity and will result in automatic failure of the course.
7. Grading Policy: This will be a reading, thinking, and writing intensive class. The grade of “A” will only be given to excellent work that shows that you understand and can work with the question in your own voice. Answers should be accurate, clear, consistent, complete, and involve a thoughtful response to both the readings and class-discussion.
8. If you have a disability that presents a difficulty for you in this class or are experiencing problems that are interfering with your work in this class, please discuss this with me immediately and we will attempt to come up with an appropriate solution.