Fall 2019 Course Syllabi

Late Work Policy: Late work may receive 50% credit. Late work after assignments are graded is not allowed. DISABILITIES AND SPECIAL NEEDS DCB seeks to provide reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with disabilities. This college will comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws, regulations, and guidelines with respect to providing reasonable accommodations as required to provide equal educational opportunities. It is the student's responsibility to register with the Disability Resource Office in a timely manner to determine reasonable accommodations. Once the student registers with the Disability Resource Office and provides documentation identifying the need for accommodations, an Accommodation Plan will be provided to the student. It is the student’s responsibility to show the Accommodation Plan to his/her instructor. The Disability Resource Office is located in the Thatcher Building. Students may contact the Disability Resource Service Coordinator. All information is kept confidential. ACADEMIC DISHONESTY/PLAGIARISM Prohibited conduct includes, but is not limited to, the following descriptions: All forms of student academic dishonesty, including but not limited to, cheating, inventing facts or sources, causing others to be dishonest, or representing another’s words as one’s own. Cheating is defined as the use or attempted use of information, academic work, research or property of another as one’s own. Cheating includes, but is not limited to, plagiarism, sharing knowledge during an examination, the unauthorized use of notes or other materials in an examination, or the willful disobedience of testing rules. Plagiarism: DCB recognizes the seriousness of plagiarism, which is defined as turning in someone else's work and calling it your own. At DCB, plagiarism is treated as a dishonest action, an issue of dishonorable behavior. There are two types of plagiarism: intentional and unintentional plagiarism. Intentional plagiarism is an obvious type of cheating that includes turning in writing that you are falsely presenting as your own. It may be writing that was produced by a roommate, a spouse, an essay bought from the Internet, and/or passages copied from a research source such as a book, magazine, or web site. Allowing another student to copy your work is another type of intentional plagiarism. In addition, students are expected to avoid unintentional plagiarism, which means including in your own work and passing off as your own writing, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, or more, that are only slightly changed from the original source. To avoid unintentional plagiarism, you must paraphrase properly and identify the original writer and source; this is called citing your work. Citations can be done in a few different formats, and your instructors are eager to help you learn how to cite your sources correctly. Unintentional plagiarism can also include passing off somebody else’s ideas (not just words) as your own without indicating that the idea or