Collaboration

• In homework, you are allowed to consult the professor,  your other classmates, and/or any other individuals to obtain assistance in formulating a solution or debugging. If anyone other than the professor, has been consulted on any portion of the assignment, you are required to identify these individuals by name at the beginning of the assignment. While such consultation is allowed, it is important that the final written preparation of the assignment is done by yourself, using your own explanations. It is strictly forbidden to submit someone else's work as your own or to copy someone else's work (either verbatim or with slight notation changes). A good rule of thumb is "don't write down anything that you don't understand."
• In the exams, you may not consult with anyone other than the professor, who will only answer questions of clarification about the problem wording. You will be asked to sign an honor code in each exam indicating that the work is your own.

Grading discrepancies

• If a grading error is found in a homework, the student should bring it to my attention. If I agree that an error has been made, I will update the records.
• Students are responsible for reporting any grading errors within one week of when the respective homework or exam is returned.

Make-ups, Incompletes, etc.

• Make-up exams will be given only if you have a legitimate excuse, such as a serious illness as documented by a doctor's note. If you do not have a legitimate excuse, you will be given a grade of zero for the exam.
• Incompletes will not be given to students who wish to improve their grade by taking the course a subsequent semester. (An incomplete may be given for medical reasons where a doctor's note is provided.) Students will not be given an opportunity to improve their grade by doing "extra work".
• Homeworks are due at the beginning of class. No late homeworks will be accepted, unless there is a legitimate excuse and you have obtained permission in advance from the professor. No homework scores will be dropped.
• Students are responsible for being aware of the add and drop dates for the current semester. Forms will not be back-dated.

Academic Honesty
By staying enrolled in this class, you agree to abide by the University's Policy for Academic Honesty which appears in the Student Handbook under the section heading "Academic Honesty". If you have questions about the policy please contact me, your advisor, or another faculty member PRIOR to engaging in a "dishonest" act. Failure to abide and respect the Academic Honesty Policy will result in severe penalties as allowed by the University.  I want to point out to you the following expectation, which comes directly from the University's Statement of Student Responsibilities:

In order for an academic community to teach and support appropriate educational values, an environment of trust, cooperation and personal responsibility must be maintained. As members of this University community, students assume the responsibility to fulfill their academic obligations in a fair and honest manner. This responsibility includes avoiding such inappropriate activities as plagiarism, cheating or collusion. Students found responsible for one or more of these activities may face both academic sanctions (such as lowering a grade, failing of a course, etc.) and disciplinary sanctions (such as probation, suspension, expulsion).

It is the intent of Minnesota State University, Mankato to encourage a sense of integrity on the part of students in fulfilling their academic requirements. To give students a better understanding of behaviors that may constitute academic dishonesty, the following definitions are provided:

Plagiarism – Submission of an academic assignment as one's own work, which includes critical ideas or written narrative that are taken from another author without the proper citation. This does not apply only to direct quotes, but also to critical ideas that are paraphrased by the student.

Plagiarism includes but is not limited to:

• submitting the work of others as your own
• submitting others work as your own with only minor changes
• submitting others work as your own without adequate footnotes, quotations, and other reference forms
• multiple submission of the same work, written or oral, for more than one course without both instructor's permission, or making minor revisions on work which has received credit and submitting it again as new work.

Cheating — Use of unauthorized material or assistance to help fulfill academic assignments. This material could include unauthorized copies of test materials, calculators, crib sheets, help from another student, etc.

Collusion — Assistance to another student or among students in committing the act of cheating or plagiarism.