Updated Attendance and Participation Policy

In order to simply the attendance and participation grading policy, I've combined the attendance and participation policies on the policies page and modified it as follow:

1. "Being excessively late on a frequent basis or having more than three (3) absences will lower your attendance and participation grade by at least a full letter grade." What this means is that excessive tardiness and absences will drop ONLY your attendance and participation grade by at least a full letter grade and NOT you overall course grade.

2. Though I can gauge your participation in the class using your attendance record and in-class activity record, you will be given an opportunity to argue for how much credit you deserve for your attendance and participation grade. You will participate in an in-class essay activity where you present evidence regarding how much credit you deserve for class attendance and participation grade. During that activity, you will be able to address any attendance issues that may have influenced your participation in the course.

Please review the updated policy page for further details.