Attendance & Late Work

Attendance

You are expected to attend all class meetings. Attendance is not a component of your grade, but missing class will mean missing both content and critical course information. Being absent from class does not excuse you from the responsibility of knowing what was covered in your absence, including any announcements or changes to the syllabus.

The engagement grade is not an attendance grade. Do not come to class if you are ill. It is much more important that you care for your mental and physical health and the health of those around you than it is to check the “came to class” box. It is not necessary to let us know about absences, but if you will miss (or have missed) more than one class in a row you should contact your section TA to check in.

Late Work

You can turn in any work for assessment at any time during the quarter. You have a full quarter to plan ahead, budget your time, and submit work to count towards the 70 points of standards-based assessments (30 final project + 40 mini-projects) and assignment engagement points (10 final project + 10 mini-projects). If you are proactive you can earn all 90 of those points in the first few weeks (though I wouldn’t recommend it). You have a tremendous amount of flexibility here in terms of which assignments you choose to complete, when you choose to complete them, how many times you want to submit your final project for iterative grading, and just generally how you approach this class.

This class has exactly two deadlines:

  1. Assessment mini-projects must be submitted on or before Wednesday of 9th week
  2. Final drafts of research projects must be submitted on or before Wednesday of finals (10th) week

Given how much control you have in this class, these deadlines are absolutely firm. Extensions will not be granted outside of truly exceptional circumstances. As a result, there is no such thing as “late work.”