Attendance and Make-up Work

Attendance is not taken in this class and does not count toward your grade as a stand-alone component of your final grade. However, missing class meetings for this course will result in lower grades. So will coming late or leaving early. Your grades will be lower because you will miss information, not because attendance counts.

There are no excused absences.

If you missed it, you missed it. The material covered during class will not be reviewed or repeated.

There are group project meetings and discussions during class. If you miss these, there is no way to make them up. Please do not ask me to replay the class for you in a private performance.

If you know in advance you will miss a class, the best practice is to inform me as soon as possible so that I can make accommodations, if appropriate. For example, with sufficient warning, I could give you the handouts ahead of time. You could also ask another student to take notes for you. I will be happy to give you the handouts after the fact, but if you don't have the handouts in advance, you will probably find you are not able to complete an assignment by the deadline.

Any work handed in after the deadline is graded as zero.

There will be regular quizzes on the assigned texts, so please do complete the reading. There are no makeup quizzes, with one exception: If you tell me at least one week in advance that you cannot attend class on a day when a quiz is scheduled, I will usually agree to give you a makeup quiz.

If you have any questions about the policies described on this page, I expect you to ask me for clarification.

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Grading

Honesty Policy

Students with Disabilities