The table below illustrates the max number of absences for English 102, 203, 204, 206, and 208:
The tables below illustrate the max number of absences for English 100A and 100B:
English 100A
Automatic Withdrawals and Failures Due to Absences:
If you miss more than the allowed number of absences by Week 10, your
instructor will send your name to the FAS Dean’s office to be withdrawn
from the course. If you are enrolled in 15 or more credit hours, you
will automatically be dropped from the course. If you are enrolled in
fewer than 15 credit hours, you will automatically earn a failing grade
of 40 for the course. If you miss more than the total number of allowed
absences in a given semester and you accumulate these absences after
Week 10, you will automatically earn a failing grade of 40 for the
course.
Excused Absences: If you must miss class
due to an illness and wish to be excused, you must provide your
instructor with a medical report and/or professional opinion issued by a
qualified AUB employee, AUBMC doctor, or University Health Services.
Students who seek excused absences for university-sanctioned events must
provide an official letter from the sponsoring organization notifying
your instructor of the absence at least one week before the event.
Students are expected to complete assignments on time, actively
participate in other class sessions, and to make up work missed as
agreed with the faculty member.
Schedule Conflicts:
Note that no common exams or labs are to be scheduled that conflict
with students enrolled in this class. You are responsible for
communicating with all parties involved prior to the date of the
conflict. Please note that any student who misses a class to take an
exam or attend a lab for another class is not excused and is responsible
for arranging for makeup work, should the instructor allow it.
Students
are allowed to register for a Communication Skills course a maximum of
three times, the third requiring permission of the student’s advisor and
the Department of English. Students withdrawn will be counted as having
registered for the course one time.
Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Policy:
In
all writing, ideas and words taken from any source should be
documented. Failure to credit ideas or material taken from sources
constitutes plagiarism, a violation of the University’s academic
regulations, and is subject to disciplinary action.
All writing
you do for any course at AUB, including Communication Skills courses,
must be your own and must be exclusively for that course, unless the
instructor stipulates differently. Please pay special attention to the
quotes, paraphrases, and documentation practices you use in your papers
(note: if you are referring to work previously submitted in any course,
then you must cite yourself).
Academic Honesty means applying the following standards to all submitted work:
- Documenting
all proprietary information that is received from sources, including
books, articles, websites, lectures, interviews, television, radio, and
etc.
- Putting quotation marks around the words that were originally written or spoken by someone other than oneself.
- Clearly indicating ideas by other authors, even if they are paraphrased (written in your own words) or summarized.
Plagiarism: Engaging in any of the following activities constitutes plagiarism:
- Submitting a paper written by another student
- Requesting or paying someone to complete an assignment for you
- Taking material from secondary sources without proper documentation
- Copying, word for word, someone else’s writing without putting that passage in quotation marks and identifying the source
- Taking someone else’s writing, changing some of the words, and not identifying the source
- Taking someone else’s ideas or organization of ideas, putting them into his/her words, and not identifying the source
- Having
someone else change your writing – a tutor, friend, or relative, for
instance – and creating the impression that this writing is your own
work.
- Purchasing or downloading papers or passages from the Web.
- Using
facts, data, graphs, charts, photographs, or other information without
acknowledging the source with a footnote or reference. Borrowed facts or
information obtained in one’s research or reading must be acknowledged
unless they are “common knowledge.” Students should check with their
teachers regarding what can be viewed as “common knowledge” within a
specific field or assignment, but often the student will have to make
the final judgment. When in doubt, footnotes or references should be
used.
Disciplinary Action: When
confronting plagiarism, all instructors in the Communication Skills
Program abide by the guidelines stipulated in AUB’s Student Code of
Conduct, which states:
“It is the responsibility of the faculty
to uphold university policies. Thus, the immediate responsibility for
dealing with instances of cheating, plagiarism, and other academic
violations rests with the faculty member. If a faculty member has good
reason to believe that a student has violated academic standards, it is
his or her responsibility to discipline the student expeditiously. A
faculty member who has good reason to believe that a student has
violated academic standards must give a grade of zero on the exam or
assignment where the violation occurred. When the instructor has taken
the initial disciplinary action, he or she should send a letter to the
office of the Dean of the Faculty or School, in which the incident
occurred, informing him/her of the incident and the initial action
he/she has taken. A copy of the letter will be placed in the student's
file, and another copy forwarded to the student's advisor for
follow-up.” (10)
Turnitin:
Turnitin is an online
plagiarism-detection tool accessible via Moodle that many faculty at AUB
use. Once your work is uploaded, it will be compared with an extensive
database of student and publicly accessible writing. When you upload an
assignment to Moodle, your assignment may also automatically be scanned
through Turnitin. If your instructor has authorized Turnitin to scan the
assignment on Moodle, you must comply or risk losing credit for the
assignment. If you have questions about how the software works or how
the Turnitin report has been used, please ask your instructor or set up
an appointment with the Director of Communication Skills.
Grievance Procedure:
If
at any time during the semester you have concerns about the course, an
assignment, or your instructor’s assessment of your work, you should
first set up a meeting to talk with your instructor about it. If need
be, you may request a meeting with the Director of Communication Skills.
The goal of any meeting with the Director will be to improve
communication between the student and course instructor, and to resolve
the issue in such a way that course learning outcomes are achieved.
Please note that the instructor for the course is the final
decision-maker for any issues that arise.