Course Requirements:

Written Assignments:

	Value per assignment
Written Assignments x 5	20%
Total	80%
Lowest graded assignment dropped.

In-class:

The remaining 20% of the class will be assigned for participation and attendance. For information regarding absences and participation, see below  for policy regarding participation and absence.

Office Hours: Office hours will be held at TEL 3029, between 10:00 AM and 11:00 AM on Tuesday. Meetings may also be made by appointment.

Late and Missed Assignments: All assignments are due in lecture at the beginning of class at 11:30 AM on the due date specified for that assignment. Assignments handed in at 11:35 AM are considered late. Late assignments will be penalized at 4% a day.

Remember that class starts at 11:30 AM, so that is your baseline for what constitutes a day. That is, assignments need to be in by 11:30 AM the next day or they are late again. Avoid all of this by planning ahead and handing everything in on time.

Please be advised that late assignments may take longer to return since these assignments take longer to obtain there is no guarantee when they will be marked and given back to you.

Students do not have the option of rewriting assignments to improve their grades. Students do not have the option of handing in additional assignments to improve their grade.

If you are too sick to hand in an assignment, you will need a detailed doctor’s note. This note must state why you were unable to write the exam or hand in the assignment on that day and the days/weeks leading up to it. For assignments be prepared to show the work that you have done leading up to the illness.

Special Needs and Concerns: Students with special needs or concerns that may affect their course work should make an appointment with Counselling & Disability Services to discuss any special need as soon as possible. You must also make arrangements with me regarding any accommodations regarding any aspect of the course. I will not grant accommodations retroactively.

E-Mail Guidelines and Office Hours: I am happy to answer questions or concerns during class and will also be available to provide individual guidance and advice during my office hours. Please note that you must give me at least 72 hours to respond to email messages. If you have not received a reply to your email after this time has elapsed, this may mean the message has been lost and you should resend it.

Please be aware of the limits of email. I will not respond to questions that require lengthy answers, but will recommend that you meet with me in person during office hours.

Grade Appeals: If you are dissatisfied with the explanation of the grade, please bring your concerns to the professor. Appeals of grades will only be considered if you can identify something specific about the assignment or exam that you feel did not receive the credit that it merits. [How hard you worked and the grades that you need to apply to grad school / law school / an MBA program, etc. are not relevant.]

Classroom Etiquette: Attendance at lectures is strongly recommended and is included in your final mark for the course. Of course, respectful and attentive behaviour is expected from those who do attend.

Punctuality is also important, as essential information will be announced at the beginning of class, and late entry to the class is disruptive and disrespectful.

Students that arrive later than 5 minutes from the beginning of the class period will be considered absent.

Course Website: All information that needs to be distributed to students will be sent through the course website, and to your “preferred” email address that is on record with the university. It is therefore very important to ensure that I have the correct email address for you and that you regularly check that account as well as the course website.

Messages that bounce back from accounts that are full will not be resent.

Plagiarism: The university policies concerning plagiarism apply in this course. Students are expected to take the Academic Integrity Tutorial and complete the Academic Integrity quiz. Proof of this must be supplied to me at the beginning of the second meeting of the course.

Assignments will be submitted through Turnitin.com and no sympathy will be shown to anyone found having engaged in plagiarism.

For your reference:

Assignment Grade Scale:

A+. 9. Exceptional Thorough knowledge of concepts and/or techniques and exceptional skill or great originality in the use of those concepts, techniques in satisfying the requirements of an assignment or course.

A. 8. Excellent Thorough knowledge of concepts and/or techniques with a high degree of skill and/or some elements of originality in satisfying the requirements of an assignment or course.

B+. 7. Very Good Thorough knowledge of concepts and/or techniques with a fairly high degree of skill in the use of those concepts, techniques in satisfying the requirements of an assignment or course.

B. 6. Good Good level of knowledge of concepts and/or techniques together with considerable skill in using them to satisfy the requirements of an assignment or course.

C+. 5. Competent Acceptable level of knowledge of concepts and/or techniques together with considerable skill in using them to satisfy the requirements of an assignment or course.

C. 4. Fairly Competent Acceptable level of knowledge of concepts and/or techniques together with some skill in using them to satisfy the requirements of an assignment or course.

D+. 3. Passing Slightly better than minimal knowledge of required concepts and/or techniques together with some ability to use them in satisfying the requirements of an assignment or course.

D. 2. Barely Passing Minimum knowledge of concepts and/or techniques needed to satisfy the requirements of an assignment or course.

E. 1. Marginally Failing

F. 0. Failing