This class is designed to be a community-based learning venture: engaging in lectures, section and peer review with your fellow classmates is as important as doing the reading and completing the assignments. Therefore maintaining regular attendance is required to pass the course. The TAs will take attendance in both lecture and section. If a student has more than three unexcused absences in lecture or section, they cannot receive a passing grade in the course. If there is a serious illness or other unforeseen event that during the semester that results in more than three absences, please notify your TA in order to seek a qualified exemption to the attendance policy.
Excused Absences
If you have any COVID symptoms, or have tested positive for COVID within 7 days of the class, you should notify your TA and then stay home and isolate until you have a negative COVID test. In order for this absence to be excused, you will need to do the following for each component of the course missed:
For lecture absence: view the recording of lecture available on the Canvas platform (ask you TA for help if you have trouble finding the recordings) and email your TA a one paragraph summary of the lecture, including answering any questions the lecturing faculty posed to the class.
For section absence:
Schedule a virtual one on one session with a tutor in the Writing Center and use that session to make progress on the essay assignment you are working on at the time. Once you have completed this, send your TA an email describing what you discussed in the session and which tutor you met with.
Services for Students with Disabilities
CalArts will provide reasonable accommodations to students with disabilities who have registered with the Student Affairs office. Registration with the Office of Student Affairs is on a voluntary, self-identifying basis. Services are available only after a student has presented certified, current documentation of the disability from an appropriate medical or educational specialist, and this documentation has been reviewed and accepted as complete. Please go to http://calarts.edu/student-services/disabilities for extensive information on services for students with disabilities.
Accessibility of Readings and Videos
All required course reading and videos will be made available in formats accessible to vision and hearing impaired students. Please do not hesitate to contact your TA or instructor if you encounter course materials that are not accessible.