Attendance is expected

Attendance is expected.

Attendance Policy

Students are required to attend all classes, laboratories and clinical sessions for which they are registered. Students are graded according to course objectives and requirements established and distributed by instructors. While attendance alone cannot be used as a criteria for academic evaluation in any courses, the instructors have the prerogative to give or decline opportunities for making up work missed due to absence. Excessive absence may result in lowering of a student's grade. It is defined as, with the exception of medically-excused absence and religious holidays, more than three cuts in classes that meet three times each week or more than two cuts in those that meet twice per week.

Instructors should be notified of extracurricular absences prior to missing classes.

The application of this policy is left to the individual instructors who at the beginning of each semester will announce the specific requirements of the course.

Athletic events involving UCC student athletes are a legitimate reason to miss class. Faculty members are encouraged to assist the students in making up missed classroom assignments. An instructor may use the quality of class participation in determining student grades, if that has been specified as a requirement of the course at the beginning of the term. If you are subject to extended absences (3 or more consecutive days) due to illness, death in the family, or legal commitment, you are required to notify the academic department secretary.

Cheating Policy

Students are expected to uphold the school's standard of conduct relating to academic honesty. Students assume full responsibility for the content and integrity of the academic work they submit. The guiding principle of academic integrity shall be that a student's submitted work, examinations, reports, and projects must be that of the student's own work. Students shall be guilty of violating the honor code if they:

1. Represent the work of others as theirs
2. Use or obtain unauthorized assistance in any academic work.
3. Give unauthorized assistance to other students.
4. Modify, without instructor approval, an examination, paper, record, or report for the purpose of obtaining additional credit.
5. Misrepresent the content of submitted work.

The penalty for violating the honor code is severe. Any student violating the honor code is subject to receive a failing grade for the course and may be subject to disciplinary action as described in the Student Handbook. If a student is unclear about whether a particular situation may constitute an honor code violation, the student should meet with the instructor to discuss the situation.

For this class, it is permissible to assist classmates in general discussions of techniques. General advice and interaction are encouraged. Each person, however, must develop his or her own solutions to the assigned homework and laboratory exercises. Students may not "work together" on graded assignments. Such collaboration constitutes cheating, unless it is a grouped assignment. A student may not use or copy (by any means) another's work (or portions of it) and represent it as his/her own. If you need help on an assignment, contact your instructor, not other classmates.