Math 113 (Policies)

Your honor cannot be taken from you; you can only give it up voluntarily yourself.

Your work on quizzes, exams, and all submitted material, is governed by the Union College Honor Code. This means that the faculty at Union trust you to perform your work within the parameters that they have specified; thus they will not impose cumbersome security measures to force you to do your work properly, but it also means that the responsibility falls to you to work honorably and not break that trust. It should be an honor to fullfil the principles of academic honesty, and your signature on the honor affirmation indicates that you have acted in accord with those principles. I take this very seriously, and you should as well.

You will be asked to sign the honor statement on all quizzes and exams in this course. You can use the short-hand version

I affirm that I have carried out my academic endeavors with full academic honesty.

followed by your signature. I will have this printed on all the quizzes and exams, and you should include it on any work that you submit, even if I haven't written it out explicitly.

The quizzes and exams are closed-book, unless otherwise indicated. This means you may not consult your notes, the textbook, the internet, your phone, other students, your parents, or any other resource other than your brain. While I may not be able prevent you from using these, it is your personal honor that is at stake if you choose not to follow the rules and sign the affirmation anyway. I hope that you will not lightly compromise something of that importance. Your honor cannot be taken from you; you can only give it up vountarily yourself.

You should try to do the WeBWorK on your own, but you may work with others if needed. You should not, however, use websites that perform the computations for you, even when they give the reasoning. Some students think this helps them learn the material, but historically that has not been the case. Most students who do this turn to the internet too soon without having thought about the problems long enough or hard enough themselves, and so they have actually failed to learn the material, and are unable to perform well on quizzes and exams where the crutch of those websites is not available. While I can't stop you from using them to do the WeBWorK assignments, you should know that I consider this to be an honor-code violation.

Math 113 (Fall 2022) web pages Created: 02 Sep 2022 Last modified: 03 Sep 2022 11:52:00 Comments to: dpvc@union.edu

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