I do not make notes available, so it is YOUR responsibility to obtain notes and assignments if you miss class. Your presence and participation in class can affect borderline grades at semester s end. The University has guidelines for proper academic behavior. Cheating is dishonesty of any kind with respect to examinations, course assignments, alteration of records, or illegal possession of examinations. It is the responsibility of the student not only to abstain from cheating, but, in addition, to avoid the appearance of cheating and to guard against making it possible for others to cheat.
Plagiarism is the offering of the work of someone else as one s own.
Honesty requires that any ideas or materials taken from another source for either written or oral use must be fully acknowledged. The language or ideas taken from another may range from isolated formulas, sentences, or paragraphs, to entire articles copied from books, periodicals, speeches, or the writings of other students. . . . Any student who fails to give credit for ideas or materials taken from another source is guilty of plagiarism. This is a proposed outline of lecture topics and discussions. We have about 17 days to cover an entire semester s work.