ENVS100/L Ecology & Society - Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Fall 2007 Profs. Jeff Bury, Greg Gilbert, and Erika Zavaleta

Academic integrity

When a student enrolls at UCSC he or she automatically agrees to abide by University policies.  The student policy and regulations handbook is available at http://www2.ucsc.edu/judicial/handbook.shtml.   Academic integrity and scholarship are core values of the UCSC community; plagiarism and cheating contradict these values, and so are very serious academic offenses. We have a zero tolerance policy for plagiarism and cheating. No credit will be given for an assignment where a breach of academic integrity is established, and we will follow the established UCSC process for violations of academic integrity (http://www.ucsc.edu/academics/academic_integrity/undergraduate_students/). If you have any questions about UCSC policy please consult your professors and the course reader.  In addition, UCSC has an excellent Information Literacy Tutorial at  http://nettrail.ucsc.edu, that includes a clear discussion of plagiarism and the ethics of information use and citing.

For additional clear descriptions and discussion of what constitutes plagiarism, please see the following web pages from the Learning Center.

http://www.plagiarism.org/learning_center/what_is_plagiarism.html

http://www.plagiarism.org/learning_center/plagiarism_faq.html