Please be on time; attendance will be taken twice each morning session: EARLY, during  the first 15 minutes of the morning "large group" session (from 9:00 - 9:15), and LATE, during the "small group" discussion with your assigned tutor. Do not expect to sign in for the early sheet if you arrive after 9:45 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.

Chabot class attendance rules will apply. Four consecutive absences from either Large or Small group means that you may be dropped; six total semester absences also may mean being dropped. If you will miss more than one class, let us know by email or voicemail or by note.

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

If you miss 50% of more of the large group meetings reviewing a work, and/or 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 grade 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 one class session late will not earn an excellent mark (an "A"). Work submitted more than one class session late may significantly affect your grade.

 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.

This class is taught as a team by each of us. 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.

The scheduled assignments for Spring Semester 2005 include papers on