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The lowest of the five exam scores will be dropped without prejudice and will not count towards your final grade. There will be absolutely no make-up exams, no matter how good your reason for missing the exam; dropping the lowest score will cover the situation where an exam is missed for a legitimate reason. Dropping your worst exam score is a crucial protection for you; do not waste this protection frivolously! The remaining four exams, including the final exam, all have equal weight. Each will contribute 20% of your final grade.

Homework and observing projects: There will be about 10 homework assignments. Together they will contribute 20% of your final grade. The homework score may not be dropped and replaced by a fifth exam.

The letter grade will be assigned on the following absolute scale:

In past years the average course grade has been mid- to low B.

Cheating, Plagiarizing, and Other Miss-Behavior: The penalty for cheating on an exam is a score of zero for the exam and the zero will be included as one of the four exam scores used to calculate your final grade.

Students are strongly encouraged to discuss homework and projects with each other, but all work you turn in for grades must be your own work in your own words. You may not copy from each other and must even avoid agreeing on specific wording for answers. The penalty for a first offense is a warning. The penalty for a second offense is a score of zero for all involved homeworks. Note that the copies and the homework from which they were copied will all receive zeros. This means you are responsible for preventing your homework from being copied.

Behavior that disrupts the learning experience of other students may, in principle, be penalized by lowering your final grade, but, in truth, this penalty has never had to be assessed.

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