Professor Availability
The professor will be available via e-mail to students.
About the Assignments
Unit Assignments
In each unit, you will complete a reflective journal assignment and an Internet research assignment. Please follow the directions in each unit for instructions for completion.
Final Project
You will write a six to eight page Final Project over a topic covered in this course. Your topics will be provided by your professor. You can use references and links that you found in the units as your cited references. If you would prefer to write about a different topic, please obtain approval from your instructor.
Assignments, Grading, and Due Dates
The faculty member will inform students of time lines and due dates.
Due Dates for Work - Timeline
This course may not follow the four-week timeline. Each student will receive an e-mail from the instructor with details on the deadlines and due dates for the course. The assigned work for each unit is due no later than the last day of that unit. The final project is due no later than the last day of the course.
Grading Rubric
The course is letter graded, based on a 100-percent scale, with credit distributed as follows:
Internet Research Assignments 400 Points Reflective Journals 400 Points Course Spanning Task Topic 10 Points Outline 15 Points Draft 25 Points Final Paper 350 Points Total 1200 Points
Grading Procedures
Students will submit assignments to the appropriate dropbox at http://learn.ou.edu/. Assignments will be graded, with comments, and returned to the student. Privacy will be maintained and student grades will not be publicly posted. This course is letter graded.
Remember that it is your responsibility to maintain ongoing communication with your faculty member(s). If you need to miss a class (on-site) or if you are going to be delayed in submitting assignments (online), you should contact your faculty members to let them know your situation. Faculty members are not obligated to initiate contact with you before assigning final grades. If you have several absences (on-site classes) or outstanding or late assignments, your grade may be seriously impacted.
Incomplete (“I”) Policy
For sufficiently extenuating circumstances a student may receive a grade of “I” and receive an extension to complete. To receive a grade of “I” the student must satisfactorily complete a minimum of one-half of the course work, have a legitimate reason for not being able to complete the work during the normal time frame, request from the instructor a desire to receive an Incomplete grade via submitting a request for an “I” and a plan to the instructor about how and when the work will be completed. If the student receives a grade of “I” the instructor will indicate to the student, and to the Office of Academic Records via the official OU grade sheet, what must be done to complete the course and set a time limit appropriate to the circumstances, however, the time allowed may not exceed one calendar year. If the course has an associated Web site and the Web site has changed before the student starts work on the Incomplete, the student will contact the faculty member and the faculty member will develop comparable assignments based on the current Web site. If books have changed in the course, the faculty member should be willing to develop assignments based on the books that the student has so the student will not have to buy new books. If by the end of the year, no change in grade has been submitted, the grade of “I” will become permanent on the student’s record. If the student wants to re-enroll in the course they may, and they will need to pay full tuition and fees for the enrollment. History tells us that the longer an Incomplete goes unfinished the less likely it will ever be completed at all. The College recommends that the student remedy their incomplete grade before the start of the next semester.
If you have submitted no work, or less than half of the course assignments, you should not expect to receive a grade of “I” You will receive either an “AW” or a failing grade. Students will make arrangements with the instructor to complete coursework. Work submitted within four weeks of the final course date will be accepted without negative consequences to the grade; work submitted to remove the “I” after four weeks will have consequences to be determined by the professor. Grades of “I” must be completed within one academic year.
The University of Oklahoma Student Academic Integrity
http://integrity.ou.edu/students_guide.html
1.1 BASIC PRINCIPLE OF HONESTY
Honesty is a fundamental precept in all academic activities, and those privileged to be members of a university community have a special obligation to observe the highest standards of honesty and a right to expect the same standards of all others. Academic misconduct in any form is inimical to the purposes and functions of the university and therefore is unacceptable and rigorously proscribed.
1.2 DEFINITIONS
1.2.1 Academic Misconduct. Any act that improperly affects the evaluation of a student's academic performance or achievement. The following terms illustrate but do not delimit or define academic misconduct.
- Cheating: the use of unauthorized materials, methods, or information in any academic exercise, including improper collaboration;
- Plagiarism: the representation of the words or ideas of another as one's own, including:
- direct quotation without both attribution and indication that material is being directly quoted, e.g. quotation marks;
- paraphrase without attribution;
- paraphrase with or without attribution where the wording of the original remains substantially intact and is represented as the author's own;
- expression in one's own words, but without attribution, of ideas, arguments, lines of reasoning, facts, processes, or other products of the intellect where such material is learned from the work of another and is not part of the general fund of common academic knowledge;
- Fabrication: the falsification or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise;
- Fraud: the falsification, forgery, or misrepresentation of academic work, including the resubmission of work performed for one class for credit in another class without the informed permission of the second instructor; or the falsification, forgery or misrepresentations of other academic records or documents, including admissions materials and transcripts; or the communication of false or misleading statements to obtain academic advantage or to avoid academic penalty;
- Destruction, misappropriation or unauthorized possession of university property or property of another;
- Bribery or intimidation;
- Assisting others in any act proscribed by this code; or
- Attempting to engage in such acts.
Accommodation for Special Needs
The College of Liberal Studies is committed to making its activities as accessible as possible. The college and the university provide a range of special services for those with disabilities. Any student in this course who has a disability that may prevent her or him from fully demonstrating her or his abilities should contact Frank Rodriquez , Coordinator of Undergraduate Programs, as soon as possible to discuss accommodations necessary to ensure full participation and to facilitate this educational opportunity.
Liberal Studies General Policy
Liberal Studies’ policy is to order books in paperback, if available. Courses, dates and instructors are subject to change. Please check with the office. Students should retain a copy of any assignments that are submitted for the course. The Disability Resource Center can also be found online at http://drc.ou.edu/.
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