FRST 100: Policies for this Course

Turnitin.com: All written assignments except the midterm and final exams must be submitted electronically by using Turnitin.com. The University of BC subscribes to this widely used program. Each assignment you submit will be compared to everything available on the Internet and all student assignments previously submitted from around the world, including other classes at UBC and former FRST 100 classes. Turnitin.com generates a report on each assignment in which anything copied from other sources (paragraphs, sentences, or parts of a sentence) is highlighted in color, and the source of the copied material is listed. We will be using these Turnitin.com reports to grade your assignments.
Short essays: Short essays submitted after the due date will be downgraded at the rate of 10% a mark per day for three (3) days (including weekends). After three days, late assignments will not be accepted.
Book Reviews: Book review summaries and book review evaluations submitted after the due date will be downgraded at the rate of half a mark per day (including weekends).
Midterm: No make-up midterm examination will be offered for this course unless you provide a note from a medical doctor. If such a note is provided, an opportunity to make up the missing 15% of the course may take the form of an alternative midterm exam, or another form of assignment, at the instructor’s discretion.
Final Exam: No make-up final examination will be offered for this course unless you provide a note from a medical doctor. The doctor’s note must certify that you were unable to attend the final examination because of medical reasons. A make-up exam will be offered at a date, time, and place to be determined between the instructor and any students who meet the medical-doctor’s note criterion.
Passing the course: You must pass the final exam to pass the course.
Plagiarism: Plagiarism will not be tolerated in any assignment. See the University of B.C.’s policies on this topic at: http://www.arts1.arts.ubc.ca/arts-one-program/ubc-plagiarism-policy.html.