Attendance

• Please be on time.   Attendance will be taken each morning, during  the first 15 minutes of the morning "large group" session (from 9:00 - 9:15 AM).  Please indicate your presence on the daily roster sheet that will circulate through the room.  
   
• Please do not expect to sign-in on the large-group sheet if you arrive after 9:30 AM. 
   
• Please do not mark in attendance any friends or students you "know" or assume are coming - it is each person's individual responsibility to sign in every day.
   
• Attendance will also be taken during the "small group" discussion with your assigned tutor (from 10:30 - 11:45 AM).  Just as with the large group session, missing or arriving late to small group will affect your overall class grades.
   
• Chabot class attendance rules will apply. Four consecutive absences from either large or small group means that you may be dropped from one of the four core classes; six total semester absences also may mean being dropped from one class.  More absences may result in you being dropped from additional classes. 

Missing Class & Late Work

If you must miss class, we still expect you to contribute, and to respect the due dates for the class papers. We expect you to communicate with your tutor about your absences, by email or phone.

• If you miss 50% of more of the large group meetings reviewing a work, OR miss 50% or more of the small-group discussions about a work, you will not be able to submit a paper about the work, and your overall class grades will be affected.
   
• You must participate to receive credit for the courses in ISLS - you cannot read and write about a work alone, and turn in a paper after missing classes.
   
• Work submitted late will not earn an excellent mark (an "A" grade). Work submitted more than one class session late will negatively affect your grade.  You must talk with your tutor regarding late work; papers that "arrive" substantially after the deadlines will not receive credit.
   

Participating & Original Work

• Please take care of bodily needs (food, phone calls, etc.) before class. Turn off all cell phones and pagers before entering class. If your cell phone goes off, beeps, or in any way disrupts the class, you will be asked to leave the class.
   
• Please respect the rights of others to learn in a pleasant, non-distracting and non-threatening learning environment. Avoid side conversations during class discussions.
   
• You are expected to do your own work. Passing off the work of somebody else as your own, or including that work without appropriate citation and bibliographic entry in a paper constitutes plagiarism, which could result in punishment by the college and a grade of "F" in this class.
   

Grading

• ISLS is a holistic experience; grades are determined after evaluating all of your work throughout the term.  While we don't typically assign letter grades on each draft or final paper, we do encourage you to talk with your tutor often and discuss your progress. 
   
• If you have questions about your grades at any time in ISLS, we will meet with you as a team by appointment at a mutually agreeable time. All discussions about grade changes will be done with all of the faculty present.

Assignments

The scheduled assignments for Autumn Semester 2005 include formal papers as well as in-class essays and/or homework addressing the readings. 

• For in-class papers, you are expected to structure your work as a formal essay, with a clear introduction, thesis, body, and conclusion.
   
• For traditional papers, you are expected to hand in both a formal draft (typed, spell-checked, double-spaced, with quotes and citations) and a final paper for the works by the deadlines below. 
   
• Remember that meeting the draft deadline does influence your overall ISLS assessment, as does active participation.  Timely submission of homework and attendance at small group to work on in-class essays is expected.

The scheduled assignments for Spring Semester 2006 include papers on