Policies

• Academic Integrity.
  As with other aspects of professionalism in this course, you are expected to abide by the proper standards of professional ethics and personal conduct. This includes the usual Computer Science Department standards on acknowledgment of joint work and other aspects of the Departmental Statement on Academic Integrity. Cases of academic dishonesty will be reported to the Office of Student Ethics, a branch of the Office of the Dean of Students.

  For professional persective on this same issue, see the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, the IEEE Code of Ethics, and the Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice from both the ACM and the IEEE-CS.

• Grade of `R'
  Under normal circumstances, each student in either P465 or P565 will receive a grade of `R' for the Fall semester. This grade will automatically be converted to a regular letter grade at the end of the Spring semester.

  If a student does not complete the Spring semester, the grade of `R' will normally remain on the student's record forever (Note: this is unlike an `I' grade, which converts to `F' after a fixed period of time). The grade of `R' may, at the instructor's discretion and under very special circumstances, be converted without completion of the Spring semester. The conditions for conversion are more stringent if such conversion is requested after the beginning of the Fall semester.

• Withdrawal.
  Wednesday, October 27, is the last day to drop a course or withdraw from all courses with an automatic `W'. After that date, a student may withdraw only with the permission of his or her dean. This approval is normally only for urgent reasons related to extended illness or equivalent distress.

• Incomplete grade.
  An incomplete (`I') final grade will be given only by prior arrangement in exceptional circumstances conforming to university and departmental policy which requires, among other things, that "the completed portion of a student's work in the course is of passing quality" and "upon a showing of such hardship to a student as would render it unjust to hold the student to the time limits previously fixed for the completion of his/her work." (Doc H-XXIII, Bloomington Academic Guide)