Grading Scale:

A+=98-100, A=93-97, A-=90-92, B+=88-89, B=83-87, B-=80-82, C+=78-79, C=73-77, C-=70-72,D+=68-69, D=63-67, D-=60-62, F=Below 60 percent. Grades ending in .5 or above will be rounded up.

Class Policies:  A grade of S shall be awarded for a performance equivalent to a grade of C- or better.  Incompletes will not be granted without valid excuses (i.e. medicalAcademic misconduct will be dealt with according to the NMSU Student Handbook Students are responsible for their own withdrawal from the course—should they desire to do so. Feel free to call Jerry Nevarez, Director of InstitutionaEquity, at 505-646-3635 with any questions you may have about NMSU’s Non-Discrimination Policy and complaints of discrimination, including sexual harassment.

Feel free to call Michael Armendariz, Coordinator of  Services for Students with Disabilities, at 505-646-6840 with any questions you may have on student issues related to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and/or Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.  All medical information will be treated confidentially.

Plagiarism is using another person’s work without acknowledgment, making it appear to be one’s own.  Any ideas, words, pictures, or other intellectual content taken from another source must be acknowledged in a citation that gives credit to the source.
This is irrespective of the origin of the material, including the Internet, other students’ work, unpublished materials, or oral sources.  Intentional and unintentional instances of plagiarism are considered instances of academic misconduct. It is the responsibility of the student submitting the work in question to know, understand, and comply with this policy.If no citation is given, then borrowing any of the following * would be an example of plagiarism:

o        an idea or opinion, even when put into one’s own words (paraphrase)

o        a few well-said words, if these are a unique insight

o        many words, even if one changes most of them

o        materials assembled by others, for instance quotes or a bibliography

o        an argument

o        a pattern of ideas

o        graphs, pictures, or other illustrations

o        facts

o        all or part of an existing paper or other resource

*This list is not meant  to include all possible examples of plagiarism. Even with a citation, failure to put quotation marks around direct quotations also constitutes plagiarism, because it implies that the writing is your own.   Material should either be paraphrased or clearly designated as a quotation.   Note that replacing words with synonyms, changing verb tense or other minor alterations do not qualify as paraphrasing. For guidelines about plagiarism see the following university web site. http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/plagiarismforstudents.htm