Attendance
Attendance is mandatory for both lecture and lab. Lab sessions are scheduled for three hours. You are expected to attend for the entire three hours. If you finish early, you are free to leave. However, if you choose to leave the lab early, you must hand in your lab assignment before you leave. If you stay the entire lab session, you may keep your lab work to complete or clean-up and turn it in to your instructor at the beginning of your next lab session.
Absenteeism
If you miss a lab because of sickness or some other approved, legitimate and verifiable excuse, you need to make special arrangements with your instructor to pick up and hand in late lab assignments. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE for contacting your instructor before or no later than one day after missing lab. There are NO make-up labs. So it is very important you be in touch with your instructor within a day of your absence.
Field Trip
You are REQUIRED to attend the field trip, as it is an integral part of lab. It is impossible to learn geology without looking at real rocks in the field.
Reading Assignments
It is very important that you complete assigned reading before the respective lab.
Late Lab Assignments
Lab assignments are due exactly one week after they are assigned, unless specifically announced otherwise by your lab instructor. Ten percent will be deducted form the grade awarded to your late lab work for each day it is late, up to one week. Lab work handed in more than one week late will be assigned a zero score. If you miss a lab, it is your responsibility to take care of making it up. Talk to the professor or a TA.
Lab Grade
Your lab grade will be based on your scores for lab quizzes, assignments, and the field trip. Your lab TA will discuss the details.
Cheating
DON'T DO IT!!! Cheating will result in a failing grade for this course. You are cheating if you represent work by other people as your own. We work in an honor system. If you are aware of cheating, please inform your instructor. Your report will be held strictly confidential.