EXAMINATION POLICIES

Exams

There will be two scheduled midterm examinations worth 100 points apiece, and a final exam worth 150 points. Each exam will consist in equal parts of multiple-choice and short answer/essay questions. The final exam is comprehensive, but roughly two-thirds of the questions will relate to the new material covered since the last midterm. All exams will emphasize the material covered during lectures and presented in the lecture notes, but there will be some exam questions (10%) drawn from the required readings as well.

Please bring to the exams both a pencil (for multiple choice bubble sheets) and a pen (for essays), as well as your photo ID. It is your responsibility to arrive at the exam on time. Students who arrive late will not be given additional time, and anyone arriving after other students have finished and left will not be permitted to take the exam.

Make-up Exams

Make-up examinations will be at the professor's discretion, and will only be given when there are documented excuses beyond your reasonable control:

• Illness - you must have a physician's note indicating that you were not in physical condition to take the exam at the scheduled time. A note from a family member is not acceptable
• Death or grave illness in your immediate family.
• Significant scheduling conflicts such as medical school interviews or athletic participation in NCAA sporting events. Voluntary activities such as running in a marathon do not excuse you from an exam.

In general, makeup exams will consist of a 1 hour oral questioning.

Extra-Credit Quizzes

Fifteen extra-credit points will be awarded for performance on three quizzes given during discussion section. Because quizzes are extra-credit, you may go to as many discussion sections as you wish during the week that quiz is given and take the quiz repeatedly. (Note that the questions will vary from section to section.) Only your final score will be counted for each quiz, regardless of whether it is your best score.

PLEASE NOTE: The quizzes in this course are optional, and taking them or missing them is entirely your responsibility. There will be no makeup quizzes given after the end of the scheduled week, regardless of the circumstances.

Scholastic Dishonesty

Forgive me for having to say this, but I will tenaciously prosecute anyone who is caught cheating in my class. I aim to protect the honest majority from the dishonest few, and the consequences of being caught cheating are severe. If you have doubts about what constitutes scholastic dishonesty or want to learn more about the University's policies on handling cases of scholastic dishonesty, check out the following website:

http://www.utexas.edu/depts/dos/sjs/academicintegrity.html

Be forewarned that we will photocopy selected portions of graded exams before they are returned to class. Please also be aware that it is cheating to use someone else's CLASSTALK response pad to obtain extra-credit points for a lecture they did not attend; if this happens, both the owner of the response pad and the person using it falsely will be charged.

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