Biomedical Science Syllabus 2017-2018
Syllabus: Biomedical Science 2018-2019
Hopkins Academy 131 Russell Road Hadley, MA 01035 413-584-1106 ssilluzio@hadleyschools.org Course Title: Biomedical Science Room: 121 Instructor: Mr. Silluzio After School Hours: Wednesday 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Class WebPage www.habiology.org (BioMedical Science) Grading Policy: The course will include a midterm exam, a final exam, quarter 1 and quarter 3 final exams. Exam grades are final and cannot be taken again. All will be written and closed book. Students may use a calculator with exponent and square root functions. More advanced and graphing calculators are not allowed. Student achievement will be assessed as follows: 70% Unit assessments (exams and some major project based assignments) 30% Laboratory work, classroom, home assignments and quizzes. Students may retake alternate versions of quizzes Wednesdays after school or at a time to be arranged. Retakes are limited to one additional quiz. Only the higher score will be recorded as a grade. Late work will be accepted up to two days after the given due date at penalty of 10%/day. Assignments submitted more than two days late will not be accepted. (Exceptions must be negotiated with the school principal, guidance counselor or school nurse). Student Expectations: While in the classroom, students must all times be respectful of one another's rights so that all may take full advantage of the academic environment. Students must remain focused during instruction and work cooperatively with lab partners. Students must be on time for class and ready to begin following the change of period bell. Electronic devices should never be used or be visible in the classroom without permission. Students who violate this rule in anyway will be dismissed as insubordinate and asked to hand the device over to office staff. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY EXPECTATIONS Cheating and Copying Each student is expected to do his/her own work. Copying from another student's responses on an examination, from another student's report, or another student's homework is dishonest and unacceptable. If the other student is an accomplice in the act, that student is equally guilty of academic dishonesty. High School: Students will be required to redo the original or alternative assignment after school for 50% credit. On the second and subsequent offenses they will receive no credit. Plagiarism Plagiarism is the appropriation of words or ideas of another and passing them off as one's own. Quoting from a published work without the use of quotation marks and identification of the author is plagiarism. The use of ideas and information in another person's work, even if that person's exact words are not copied, is also plagiarism, unless documented properly. Individual student assignments require students to submit their own individual work even if they were allowed to work together during the process. High School: Students will be required to redo the original assignment for 50% credit. On the second and subsequent offenses they will be required to redo the original or alternative assignment and receive no credit. I understand and agree to the guidelines explained above: Student Name (please print):_____________________________________________ Student Signature: _________________________________Date:_______________ Parent/Guardian Name (please print):________________________________________ Parent/Guardian Signature: _________________________________Date:___________ |