Quizzes will be announced the class period prior to the quiz. Absence for the announcement does not excuse you from the quiz. Work is not a valid excuse to make up a quiz or test. Keeping up to date, studying the texts and your class notes, and doing the homework are vital . Presenting the work of others as one's own, however, is called plagiarism .
Plagiarism is unacceptable in an environment devoted to learning .
The penalty for plagiarism ranges from failing the piece with the plagiarism, to lowering the course grade, to failing the course, to expulsion from the university.