• Course Enrollment

• Attendance

• Grading

• Intellectual Property & Academic Integrity (including AI use)

Course Enrollment

Beginning on the first day of instruction, additional student-initiated enrollment in the course through GOLD is blocked so that the TAs can manage adding students to the course. However, students already on the waitlist in GOLD will continue to be auto-enrolled as spaces open up during the first week. (After Friday April 4, auto-enroll from the wait list will be turned off.)

From the beginning of the second week on, all course enrollment is managed by the TAs, who will give add codes based on available spaces to the waitlist, crashers, and enrolled students switching sections. Important: To assist the TAs in assigning add codes, any student not yet enrolled or needing to switch sections must fill out this Google enrollment request form between Friday April 4th at 3 pm  and Sunday April 6 at 12 pm (noon). This form is for students who are:

• enrolled in the course but needing to switch sections,
• on the wait list,
• not on the wait list and crashing.

Section attendance in first week to hold place in course: Students must attend the section they are enrolled in during the first week of the quarter to hold their place in the course. (Students unable to make the section they are enrolled in due to conflicts, and also students on the wait list or wishing to crash, must attend some section in the first week to be allowed into the course.)

Attendance at Lectures

Students who attend lectures regularly have historically done much better in grades in this course. Prof. Liu will not be recording lectures or making slides available online due in part to the difficulty of clearing reproduction permissions for images and other materials used in his slides.

Attendance and Participation in Section Meetings

16.67% of the final grade for the course is determined by a student’s TA on the basis of performance in a section’s in-person meetings and also Canvas online discussion forum. (TAs will provide instructions for participation in their sections’ online discussion forums.)

No more than one section meeting during the quarter may be missed without zeroing out the section participation grade. (Exceptions due to unavoidable circumstances must normally be requested in advance from a student’s TA.)

Grading

To pass English 25, students must complete all course and section assignments.

	Ungraded Assignments: There are three smaller assignments that are required to pass the course but that are not graded.
	Graded Assignments: For the graded essays and exams, the grading weights in the course are as follows:

Late Paper Policy: Late papers for which an extension was not approved by your TA in advance will decay by one partial letter grade for each day they are late. (So, for example, a B+ paper turned in one day late will become a B paper; a B paper will become a B-; or a B- paper will become a C+ paper.) Note: extensions must be requested from a student’s TA, not the professor.

Policy on Plagiarism and Other Academic Integrity Issues: Professor Liu reports all plagiarism and other issues of academic integrity without exception to the UCSB Office of Student Conduct. See Prof. Liu’s “Intellectual Property and Academic Integrity Guidelines for Students in Courses” for information, resources, and links on these issues. A recent addition to this policy document clarifies that high-level or non-routine uses of generative artificial-intelligence tools such as ChatGPT may not be used in Professor LIu’s courses unless explicitly allowed in an assignment or given explicit approval by the instructor or a TA.

Intellectual Property & Academic Integrity Guidelines (including AI use)

Professor Liu reports all cases of plagiarism and other academic dishonesty in his courses to the UCSB Office of Student Conduct without exception.

Because one of the special responsibilities of a university is to credential students as individuals, it is important that except when otherwise stated in an assignment prompt a student’s work is individually their own and does not without permission and due acknowledgement appropriate work by others or of artificial intelligence.  (Exceptions may be defined by instructors for particular assignments that encourage students to experiment with collaborative or AI methods and tools to prepare for careers in other sectors of society where teamworking and machine-assisted working are encouraged. But in the special kind of “business” that is a university, where the “product” is the individual student, such exceptions must be explicity allowed by instructors.)

In completing assignments and taking exams, students must respect legal standards and regulations concerning copyright and fair use, UCSB rules concerning plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty, and Professor Liu’s standards for allowable use of AI. See Professor Liu’s web page on “Intellectual Property and Academic Integrity Guidelines” for specific guidance and information about these key topics: Copyright, Fair Use, Plagiarism, and Use of AI.