Missed exams – Students must make every effort to be in attendance during regularly scheduled exam periods. Make up exams will be given on a very limited basis. Vacations, etc. that are scheduled after the first date of class are not legitimate excuses for missed exams. Illness must be documented with a physician’s letter written on the physician’s stationary.

Late Papers – Short papers must be turned in at the beginning of class on Tuesday, beginning with the Jan. 17 class. Late papers will not be accepted. No exceptions to this policy will be made. Only one paper may be turned in during any given week. The final paper must be turned in by the last day of class (Thursday, March 11). Any late papers will be penalized one letter grade for each business day they are late.

Make – ups – Make up exams will be provided only for students with excused absences (see above). Make up exams will differ from regularly scheduled exams in format, and to some degree in content.

Academic Dishonesty – Following is the University policy on academic honesty. This principle is very important and will be upheld rigorously in this course.

"The principle of honesty must be upheld if the integrity of scholarship is to be maintained by an academic community. The University expects that both faculty and students will honor this principle and in so doing protect the validity of University grading. This means that all academic work will be done by the student to whom it is assigned, without unauthorized aid of any kind. Instructors, for their part, will exercise care in planning and supervising academic work, so that honest effort will be encouraged."

Academic Dishonesty defined:

1. Cheating such as using "crib notes" or copying answers from another student during the exam, modifying a graded exam and returning it for a new grade, or submitting the same paper or assignment for two or more different courses unless authorized by the Instructors concerned.
2. Plagiarism such as using the writings or ideas of another person, either in whole or in part, without proper attribution to the author of the source. You must use your own words when discussing any research that you review (e.g., for the papers). It is unacceptable to copy information from other sources (e.g., web pages, published papers, papers that review other papers) without giving proper citations. Anything that you copy directly from other sources must be in quotes, with the page number from the original source given in the citation. Any ideas that you take from another source must be cited as being from that other source (e.g., Carver, 2005).
3. Collusion such as engaging in unauthorized collaboration on homework assignments or take home exams, completing for another student any part or the whole of an assignment or exam, or procuring, providing or accepting materials that contain questions or answers to an exam or assignment to be given at a subsequent time.

Students who engage in academic dishonesty will be given zero credit for any and all assignments on which such dishonesty occurs.