Missed sections are extremely difficult for the TA to reconstruct because instruments, materials, and artifacts are put back in storage after that week. Please make every effort to attend your section. Absences will be excused only for involuntary reasons, such as illness or family emergency. Your grade is based primarily on your mastery of the material presented in lectures, sections, and readings as demonstrated on the exams. A secondary component is your participation in class discussions and completion of the exercises.
Exams are mostly objective with some problems and short essay questions.
Missed exams may be made up only if you have a valid excuse for not taking it during the scheduled period. A missed exam is made up at the instructor's convenience within one week after the scheduled exam period. The workbook exercises are graded. Late exercises will be corrected but will receive no credit without a valid excuse for their tardiness. All students are expected to do their own work on the exercises, and except in cases of group activities, any evidence that you relied on someone else for answers will result in the loss of credit for the exercise for both persons.