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Academic Honesty and Other Official UCI Policy

Disability

”Students with disabilities who believe they may need accommodations in this class are encouraged to contact the Disability Services Center at 949/824-7494 as soon as possible to better ensure that such accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion.”

Academic Honesty     

”Academic dishonesty is unacceptable and will not be tolerated at the University of California, Irvine.  Cheating, forgery, dishonest conduct, plagiarism, and collusion in dishonest activities erode the University's educational, research, and social roles.  They devalue the learning experience and its legitimacy not only for the perpetrators but for the entire community.  It is essential that all members of the academic community subscribe to the ideal of academic integrity and accept individual responsibility for their work. Please familiarize yourself with the UCI Policy on Academic Honesty. (See below for an excerpt.)

Add/Drop policy

Any student may add or drop a course in the School of Humanities up to the end of the second week of classes with the instructor's signature.  Requests to add or drop after the second week will be granted only for exceptional circumstances.

Letter Grades

All school and major requirements must be taken for letter grades.


These are the UCI official guidelines on academic honesty:


Students have responsibility for:

1.   Refraining from cheating and plagiarism.

2.   Refusing to aid or abet any form of academic dishonesty.

3.    Notifying professors and/or appropriate administrative officials about observed incidents of academic misconduct. The anonymity of a student reporting an incident of academic dishonesty will be protected.


WHAT IS ACADEMIC DISHONESTY?

Academic dishonesty applies equally to electronic media and print, and involves text, images, and ideas. It includes but is not limited to the following examples:

Cheating
1. Copying from others during an examination.
2. Communicating exam answers with other students during an examination.
3. Offering another person's work as one's own.
4. Taking an examination for another student or having someone take an examination for oneself.
5. Sharing answers for a take-home examination or assignment unless specifically authorized by the instructor.
6. Tampering with an examination after it has been corrected, then returning it for more credit.
7. Using unauthorized materials, prepared answers, written notes or information concealed in a blue book or elsewhere during an examination.
8. Allowing others to do the research and writing of an assigned paper (including use of the services of a commercial term-paper company).

Dishonest Conduct
1. Stealing or attempting to steal an examination or answer key from the instructor.
2. Changing or attempting to change academic records without proper sanction.
3. Submitting substantial portions of the same work for credit in more than one course without consulting all instructors involved.
4. Forging add/drop/change cards and other enrollment documents, or altering such documents after signatures have been obtained.
5. Intentionally disrupting the educational process in any manner.
6. Allowing another student to copy off of one's own work during a test.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is intellectual theft. It means use of the intellectual creations of another without proper attribution. Plagiarism may take two main forms, which are clearly related:
    1. To steal or pass off as one's own the ideas or words, images, or other creative works of another.
    2. To use a creative production without crediting the source, even if only minimal information is available to identify it for citation.
Credit must be given for every direct quotation, for paraphrasing or summarizing a work (in whole, or in part, in one's own words), and for information which is not common knowledge.
Collusion
Any student who knowingly or intentionally helps another student perform any of the above acts of cheating or plagiarism is subject to discipline for academic dishonesty. 


To read more about these guidelines, and the (rather severe) consequences of dishonest conduct, cheating, or plagiarism, please consult the following URL: http://www.editor.uci.edu/catalogue/appx/appx.2.htm#gen0 . It is strongly advised that all UCI students make themselves familiar with these rules.