Students have the right to issue a formal complaint about inadequate teaching. Complaints should be addressed to the Head of Department. Students have a right to elect a representative to attend Department meetings in matters that do not involve personnel issues. Studen ts are strictly obligated to not plagiarize or cheat in their academic work. The Department considers plagiarism to be a serious violation of academic ethics.
Plagiarism is involved when one uses, without acknowledgment, the ideas of others.
Plagiarism takes place not only when sentences are directly copied without acknowledgment and not within quotation marks, but also when an author's distinctive ideas are used without sufficient acknowledgment. Students have an obligation to attend, and contribute to, class. Students have an obligation to inform instructors ahead of time if, because of illness or other serious emergencies, they are unable to sit for exams or submit assignments. Students do not have a right to reschedule exams for their convenience. The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.