• In this class, it is virtually impossible to master course material without being present and actively engaged during all class sessions. Attendance is absolutely required! 

• That said, there is no academic penalty for missing class. However, students who miss class frequently are unlikely to do well enough on assignments and exams to earn the C- required in this class to progress to HDF (445 or 455) and HDF 464. 

• Please be on time for all class meetings. Late arrivals are just plain inconsiderate - to me and your classmates. I will admit that I find late arrivals to be particularly irritating and ask that you make punctuality a priority in this course. 

• If an emergency prevents you from attending a class, I encourage you to be extra vigilent in completing reading for the week, carefully review any materials I email the class, review the slides posted in Canvas for the week, and bring any questions you have to office hours.

• I am not able to meet with students individually to review material missed due to class absences - it is just too time-consuming in light of my other responsibilities. 

• Attending class in HDF 375 means being logged into the class Teams meeting with your computer camera and on your full name appearing at the bottom of the screen. It means staying at your computer for the full length of class and being actively engaged for the entire class period. It means attending from a location from which you will be able to fully participate in a professional manner without distractions. You are not considered to be attending HDF 375  if you:

  • have your camera off

  • have only part of your face visible on camera

  • have walked away from your computer for more than a few minutes

  • are attempting to attend class using your phone rather than a computer

  • are having conversations or interactions with individuals outside of class - whether or not those individuals appear on screen

  • are attending class from bed

  • are attending to other responsibilities while trying to attend class

• Please do not request exceptions from the requirements listed in the preceding bullets and do not expect to remain in attendance if you cannot meet these requirements. 

• Students who are not meeting attendance requirements as listed below will be dropped from the class meeting - no warnings and no exceptions. 

• Students may not make up an in-class quiz outside of class time.

• For assignments completed outside of class and exams, I accept late work for 3 days following due dates/times with a 5% deduction for each day late starting one minute after the due date/time posted in Canvas. I do not accept late work after these 3 days.  

Students may not audio or video record this course without my express written permission or that of the Office Accessibility Resources & Services (OARS). If you have requested the use of assistive technology as an accommodation and completed the OARS Welcome Form, please let me know if you plan to record this course. Remember that authorized student-initiated recordings must be used only for your learning and education, while you are enrolled in this course. If you make a recording available to anyone, in any fashion, including posting online or through other media without my express written consent, the case will be forwarded to the Office of Students Rights & Responsibilities as a possible violation of the Student Code of Conduct.

• The purpose of college enrollment is to learn. This includes both learning about concepts specific to a field of study and learning how to write. 

• Examples of AI programs include Grammarly, Quillbot, Clickup, Audiopenai, Google Bard, ChatGPT, and numerous other programs. 

• Artificial Intelligence is a valuable tool when it helps you to learn. Unfortunately, it can also be used to avoid learning and to give yourself an advantage over classmates who are following instructor rules concerning the use of AI in a specific course. 

• In this class, I strongly encourage student use of AI for the purposes of studying - a practice that will increase your learning. 

• Written assignments in this class are an opportunity for you to demonstrate your learning of key course concepts and your ability to demonstrate this understanding in writing. Use of AI in any way (including outlining, writing, or editing) is not permitted on these assignments, as it results in submission of assignments that do not accurately indicate your understanding and writing abilities. In addition, using AI in any way in the preparation of these assignments gives you an unfair advantage over classmates who could have used AI, but instead chose to follow the rules and submit their own work.

• Students should refer to the UNCG Academic Integrity Policy in the UNCG Student Handbook and discuss this policy with me should they have any questions.  Students are expected to structure their behavior regarding this course with consideration of the principals stated in the Academic Integrity Policy.  Failure to abide by the UNCG Academic Integrity Policy will result in penalty up to and including possible course failure and referral to UNCG Student Affairs for disciplinary action. 

• In this class, work written, developed, created, inspired, or edited by Articficial Intelligence (AI) is not acceptable and will be considered plagiarism - Students who submit work written or edited using AI will fail the course and be referred to the Office of Student Rights & Responsibilities for an academic integrity violation. While I appreciate how interesting and exciting new AI developments are, they are unacceptable in graded academic coursework. This class is a place for learning and provides students opportunities to practice and improve writing skills. Using AI to complete assignments robs you of those opportunities. Examples of AI programs include Grammarly, Quillbot, Clickup, Audiopenai, Google Bard, ChatGPT, and a wide list of other programs. If you are using a computer program to write your work or to "clean up" your work, it is an academic integrity violation. 

• Plagiarism involves representing the work of another person as one’s own.  This includes: (a) representing the ideas of another as one’s own, (b) representing as one’s own a paper written by another person or AI, or (c) including within a paper sentences or phrases used verbatim from another source without enclosing the quoted words within quotation marks and indicating the source and page number of the quotes. Re-arranging the phrases or sentences of another in one’s own paper or substituting words in someone else's writing is plagiarism. It is essential when summarizing the findings from a research article that the words used are your own and not plagiarized from the original source. Plagiarism is a clear violation of the UNCG Academic Honor Policy.  

• Selling class notes for commercial gain or purchasing such class notes in this or any other course at UNCG is a violation of the University’s Copyright Policy and of the Student Code of Conduct. Sharing notes for studying purposes, or borrowing notes to make up for absences, without commercial gain, are not violations.