You will have to make up any in-class work you miss or your grade will be affected. Assignments are due at the beginning of class, or by the deadline indicated on the assignment. If you do not hand in all the assignments, you will not pass the course. Over the semester, there will be opportunities for extra credit. They can have audiovisual components, but the engagement with ideas characteristic of critical responses should be expressed primarily in writing.
All grades are final and non-negotiable.
Changes will be made only in the case of computation errors. Unless the assignment explicitly is a group project, all work in this class will be your own. All information in any report or paper must have proper attribution of its source, whether it is a quote, a paraphrase, an idea, a concept, a statistic or anything else you got from any source whatsoever other than your own immediate knowledge. It is your responsibility to be aware of and abide by the rules governing plagiarism, cheating, and academic dishonesty, which can be found in the Student Handbook. Additionally, willful damage to books, videos, or any other library or departmental material used in the preparation of assignments will result in an F for the assignment and other disciplinary action.