Homework will due ten minutes before class on Tuesdays. No late submissions will be accepted for credit since we will discuss the homework answers in class. 

All homework must be typed.

Project submissions will all be due on Friday. For each 24 hours after Friday that the assignment or project submission is turned in late 10% will be subtracted from the final grade of the assignment. 

Projects will not be accepted if they are more than a week late. 

I teach using active learning because “students in classes with traditional lecturing were 1.5 times more likely to fail than were students in classes with active learning” (Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. Freeman, Eddy, McDonough, Smith, Okoroafor, Jordt, and Wenderoth, 2014). In order for you to benefit from this teaching style you have to be present in class.

If you don’t come you will miss the learning that happened in that class period and the participation points available during the class period. Similarly if you are on social media or doing work for other classes in my class you are not participating and therefore will get no points for the day.

According to the Judicial Procedures for Academic Misconduct in To the Point “plagiarism is the act of appropriating and using the words, ideas, symbols, images, or other works of original expression of others as one’s own without giving credit to the person who created the work.”

Any violation of academic integrity will result in an automatic zero for that assignment and will be reported to Academic Services. Severe violations of academic integrity or a second offense will result in a more severe penalty up to, and including, an automatic F in the course, as allowed by the Judicial Procedures for Academic Misconduct.