Academic Dishonesty

You are responsible for understanding what constitutes academic dishonesty. For information on this topic, consult page 53 of the Undergraduate Catalogue and the University of Illinois at Chicago policy on Academic Honesty at:   http://www.vcsa.uic.edu/MainSite/departments/dean_of_students/Our+Services/Student+Judicial+Affairs.htm

In the German Basic Language Program – as in any class – each student must work completely alone on anything (homework, exams, quizzes, and compositions) turned in for a grade. Therefore, the following cases would be included under academic dishonesty.

These are NOT the only examples: if you are ever in doubt if something is plagiarism or cheating, please ask your instructor before turning in that work.

• Working with one or more other students on homework that is to be turned in for a grade, unless specifically directed to work in groups by the instructor. We encourage you to study with others, but not to produce any work submitted for a grade under the direction of others (including internet resources or resources of any other kind).

• Obtaining help on specific homework from a tutor. Tutors can help with general questions and problems, but they should not correct individual activities that are to be completed for a grade.

• Copying another student’s homework, copying homework from other resources like the internet, copying your homework from the answer key. Cheating in the first case applies both to the copier and the person who allows his/her work to be copied.

• Passing information about the content of a test/exam (oral, written, or quiz) to another student.

• Using an online translation service to write a composition. No online translating or writing programs are to be used to complete any assignment to be turned in for credit. Use of online dictionaries is allowed but discouraged because these dictionaries are incomplete and inaccurate. Online dictionaries may only be used to look up individual words. Online language sources are notoriously unreliable! These sources should be best used as instant verifications of gender, spelling, or general meaning aspects of words.

• These are NOT the only examples: if you are ever in doubt if something is plagiarism or cheating, please ask your instructor before turning in that work.