ENVS100/L
Ecology & Society - Environmental
Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Fall 2007 Profs. Jeff Bury, Greg Gilbert, and Erika Zavaleta
1. You must pass the lab section in order to pass the lecture, and vice versa.
2. Late written assignments will be docked 1 point from the final course lecture and lab grades (out of 100 points possible, each) per calendar day late (5 points maximum deduction per assignment). This includes getting first drafts of the written assignments to your peer reviewers. Assignments are due at 12:00 p.m. at the start of lecture; assignments received after 12:00 p.m. will be docked for one day late. Late homework will be deducted from the lab final grade only.
3. 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.
4. Appeals for re-grading of any assignment must be in writing to one of the professors only (NOT the TAs), and must be received no sooner than 12 hours and no later than one week after the assignment was returned.
5. Extra credit: Extra effort, such as active, constructive participation in lecture, attendance at TA or professor office hours, consultation with writing tutors, or significant improvement over the quarter, can, at the discretion of the instructors, be considered reason for increasing the final course grade up to 4 points (a 1/3-grade change, e.g., B to B+) above the straight numerical score.
6. Optional revision of assignment #1 or #2.
If you would like to revise either Assignment #1 OR Assignment #2 (not both) based on the feedback received from your TA or instructor (as well as your own sense of what needs improvement), we encourage you to do so. The optional revision is due to the TA or professor who read your paper no later than the start of lecture on Tuesday, 27 November. Only hard copies will be accepted, and no optional revisions will be accepted after 12:00 on the 27th. Feel free to submit a revision earlier in the quarter.
Your optional revision package must include the following:
1. Cover letter discussing the final changes you made, the reasons behind these changes, and any issues or questions you'd like your reader to consider in reading the newly revised version.
2. The copy of the previous draft that includes all TA or instructor comments.
3. A copy of the initial draft with all peer-editor comments.
A strong revision – one that includes all of the above components and embodies significant improvements over the previous draft – can improve your final lecture grade by up 4 points (1/3-grade changes, e.g., B to B+).