Standard Course Policies
Douglas Ulmer
Department of Mathematics
University of Arizona

• Academic integrity: Students must rigorously adhere to the University's code of academic integrity. The key sentence is this: “Integrity is expected of every student in all academic work. The guiding principle of academic integrity is that a student's submitted work must be the student's own.” Violations of this principle will be dealt as harshly as University policy permits.
• Attendance: Students are expected to attend every scheduled class, and to be familiar with the University class attendance policy as it appears in the General Catalog. It is the student's responsibility to keep informed of any announcements, syllabus adjustments or policy changes made during scheduled classes. Students who are excessively absent may be "administratively dropped" from the course. "Excessively" means 2 days in a row or any 3 days during the semester.
• Homework: Homework is an essential component of the course and will be assigned and collected regularly, approximately weekly. For full credit, homework must be turned in at the beginning of class on the day it is due. Late homework will be accepted for grading until the beginning of the next class meeting, but will earn only 70% credit. Homework turned in later may be graded but will earn no points. The single lowest homework score will be thrown out before calculating the final homework score.
• Exams: Exam dates will be announced at the beginning of the semester. Exams cannot be given at any other time. If a test is missed for a valid reason, the score for that test will be replaced with the score on the corresponding part of the final exam. (The meanings of "valid" and "corresponding part" will be determined by the instructor.) A second missed test or project, or a missed final exam, will result in a score of 0. There will be no exceptions to this policy.
• Grades: Course grades will be determined by scores on exams, projects, class participation, and homework, with weights announced at the beginning of the semester. Grades will be based on the percentage of possible points earned, and will be no lower than these: 90-100%: A, 80%-90%: B, 70%-80%: C, 60%-70%: D, below 60%: E.
• W's and I's: Students withdrawing from the course before the drop date will receive the grade W if they are passing at the time. Students will be considered to be passing at the time of withdraw if they have scored at least 50% on the work completed at that time.
  The grade of I will be awarded only if all of these conditions are met:
  1. The student has completed all but a small portion of the required work.
  2. The student has scored at least 50% on the work completed.
  3. The student has a valid reason for not completing the course on time.
  4. The student agrees to make up the material in a short period of time.
  5. The student asks for the incomplete before the final exam.