No student will be allowed to make up any exam or quiz or submit any late assignment who has not followed this procedure. Obviously, extraordinary extenuating circumstances will not be overlooked. Any make-up of exams and quizzes and any delayed submission of a written assignment must be resolved as soon as possible, usually within a week after the original date. Students are expected to arrive on time for each class, which will begin promptly on the half-hour. Although there may be good reason for being late on very rare occasions, repeated tardiness, and the attendant disruption, will not be allowed.
All assignments are to be prepared for the dates indicated in the course calendar.
All written work is to be done in ink. Although this course does not presuppose any previous work in Linguistics, the work-load expectations necessitate some comments. This course requires a good deal of sustained, concentrated effort, and it assumes a serious commitment to the study of Sociolinguistics on the part of each student. In general, students should expect to spend about two hours in outside preparation for each hour of class time. Since this course meets for three hours per week, an additional six hours per week on course-related outside preparation is normally expected.