Students have the responsibility to prepare, attend and engage in this course. Unlike other courses, this is a professional course, and attendance is a profesional value. Showing up is what is expected of any professional. Absence for any reason is likely to hurt your grade.
Absences
There are no excused or unexcused absences. There are simply absences. The decision to attend class is the student’s, not the professor’s. Consequently, students should not request in any form to be excused from class. Students are NOT expected to inform the professor if they are going to be absent.
Attendance and grades
Absence from three lectures means that the student will not receive any attendance points for the lecture. This amounts to 10 percent of the overall grade for the course. (What this means is that you can pass the course but cannot make an A.) Four absences means that attendance and Test 1 scores will be eliminated. (Again, you can still pass the course. You probably won’t make higher than a C.) Five absences means that all of the lecture points will be eliminated, meaning that you will probably make less than a C for the final grade for the course.
Clickers
Attendance is taken by the University’s clicker system, and attendance points are accumulated by this system. It is the student’s responsibility to have a clicker and to bring it to class. If a student believes clicker points should be added or adjusted, the student must email the professor to make that request within one hour of the end of the lecture.
Academic dishonesty
A student who leaves the impression of having attended the lecture when he or she has not is a form of academic dishonesty. This includes (but is not limited to) coming to the beginning of lecture and leaving as soon as the news quiz questions are done; emailing the professor to say the student attended when he or she did not; having someone else use student’s clicker in class when the student was not there. Academic dishonesty can have severe consequences for a student’s standing as a journalism major and as a student at the University of Tennessee.
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