Students
with Disabilities:
To
request academic accommodations due to a disability, please
contact Disabled Student Services: 448 Schmitz,
206-543-8924 (V/TTY). If you have a letter from DSS
indicating that you have a disability which requires
academic accommodations, please present the letter to me so
we can discuss the accommodations you might need in the
class.
Academic accommodations due to disability will not be made
unless the student has a letter from DSS specifying the
type and nature of accommodations needed.
TA
Concerns (only for classes with
TAs):
“If
you have any concerns about a course or the TA, please see
the TA about these issues as soon as possible. If you are
not comfortable talking with the TA or not satisfied with
the response that you receive, you may contact the
instructor of the course.
If you are still not satisfied with the response that you
receive, you may contact Joseph Janes, the Associate Dean
for Academics in 370 Mary Gates Hall, by phone at (206)
616-0987 or by e-mail at
jwj@u.washington.edu.
You may also
contact the Graduate School at G-1 Communications Building,
by phone at (206) 543-5900.
Grading
Criteria:
General grading information for the University of
Washington is available at:
http://www.washington.edu/students/gencat/front/Grading_Sys.html
The iSchool has adopted its own criteria for grading
graduate courses. The grading criteria used by the iSchool
is available at:
http://www.ischool.washington.edu/resources/academic/grading.aspx
The UW undergraduate grading guidelines, used by the
iSchool and available at
http://depts.washington.edu/grading/practices/guidelin.htm,
may be used in this class.
Academic
Conduct:
The following
paragraphs discussing academic integrity, copyright and
privacy outline matters governing academic conduct in the
iSchool and the University of Washington.
Academic
Integrity:
The essence of
academic life revolves around respect not only for the
ideas of others, but also their rights to those ideas and
their promulgation. It is therefore essential that all of
us engaged in the life of the mind take the utmost care
that the ideas and expressions of ideas of other people
always be appropriately handled, and, where necessary,
cited. For writing assignments, when ideas or
materials of others are used, they must be cited. The
format is not that important–as long as the source
material can be located and the citation verified,
it’s OK. What is important is that the material be
cited. In any situation, if you have a question,
please feel free to ask. Such attention to ideas and
acknowledgment of their sources is central not only to
academic life, but life in general.
Please acquaint yourself with the University of
Washington's resources on
academic honesty (http://depts.washington.edu/grading/issue1/honesty.htm).
Students are encouraged to take drafts of their writing
assignments to the Writing Center for assistance with using
citations ethically and effectively. Information on
scheduling an appointment can be found at:
http://www.uwtc.washington.edu/resources/eiwc/
Copyright:
All of the
expressions of ideas in this class that are fixed in any
tangible medium such as digital and physical documents are
protected by copyright law as embodied in title 17 of the
United States Code. These expressions include the work
product of both: (1) your student colleagues (e.g., any
assignments published here in the course environment or
statements committed to text in a discussion forum); and,
(2) your instructors (e.g., the syllabus, assignments,
reading lists, and lectures). Within the constraints
of "fair use", you may copy these copyrighted expressions
for your personal intellectual use in support of your
education here in the iSchool. Such fair use by you
does not include further distribution by any means of
copying, performance or presentation beyond the circle of
your close acquaintances, student colleagues in this class
and your family. If you have any questions regarding
whether a use to which you wish to put one of these
expressions violates the creator's copyright interests,
please feel free to ask the Student Services Office for
guidance.
Privacy:
To support an
academic environment of rigorous discussion and open
expression of personal thoughts and feelings, we, as
members of the academic community, must be committed to the
inviolate right of privacy of our student and instructor
colleagues. As a result, we must forego sharing
personally identifiable information about any member of our
community including information about the ideas they
express, their families, life styles and their political
and social affiliations. If you have any questions
regarding whether a disclosure you wish to make regarding
anyone in this course or in the iSchool community violates
that person's privacy interests, please feel free to ask
the instructor for guidance.
Knowing violations of these principles of academic conduct,
privacy or copyright may result in University disciplinary
action under the Student Code of Conduct.
Student
Code of Conduct:
Good
student conduct is important for maintaining a healthy
course environment. Please familiarize yourself with
the University of Washington's Student Code of Conduct
at:
http://www.washington.edu/students/handbook/conduct.html