General Policies
Attendance: All classes will begin on time and you are expected to be on time and attend each entire session. City Colleges require faculty to take attendance and to keep records of attendance. Poor attendance normally results in poor grades. Please be aware that if a student is excessively absent, and is not actively pursing the course, the student will be dropped from the course at mid-term. Arriving late may result in missing a short quiz or other class activity. It is not possible to make up these short activities.
Make-Up Work: Make-up work is not practical or fair. For example, make-up exams are never the same as the original exams and are not fair to those who particpate on time. Sometimes emergencies do occur. The grading policy is designed so that allowances are made for missed work. For example, the lowest exam score is dropped from the grade. If quizzes are given then some will be dropped. One laboratory may be missed with no penalty. Students should plan to attend every single class.
Classroom Etiquette: Please set your cell phones to vibrate or turn them off during class. Please do not wear headsets during class. Please do not bring food into the classroom. If you must enter the classroom late, please enter as quietly as possible. Kindness and thoughtfulness is always appreciated!
Plagiarism: - Don't do it!
(Definition from Wikipedia - Plagiarism is the passing off of another person's work as if it were one's own, by claiming credit for something that was actually done by someone else. Deliberate plagiarism is an attempt to claim another person's work as one's own, usually by removing tell-tale evidence or changing words so the plagiarism is made harder to spot.
An unacknowledged use of words, information, research, or findings not one's own, taken from any source is plagiarism only if a person is claiming personal credit for originality. It is not plagiarism to use well-known 'common sense' facts (e.g.: "gravity causes things to fall downwards" or "World War II ended in 1945") without acknowledging a source, because readers understand the author is not claiming originality of commonly known facts.