Academic Integrity Policy of the Art Department

   I.  Academic Integrity

       A.  Academic integrity calls for students to do their own
work and not to claim as their work anything someone else
has done. Intellectual growth calls for doing one’s own
work; so does academic honesty.

       B.  Infringements of academic integrity include offering
someone else’s work as your own (see Plagiarism below),
buying term papers, and cheating (see Test cheating below).
Specific penalties may result.

   II.  Plagiarism

       A.  "plagiarism" means giving the impression in an
assigned paper or studio work that someone else’s thoughts,
ideas, images and/or words are your own.

       B.  To avoid plagiarism give written credit and
acknowledgement to the source of the thought, idea, image
and/or words, whether you have used direct quotation,
paraphrasing, or just a reference to a general idea.

       C.  If you directly quote words written by someone else,
enclose the quotation in quotation marks and provide a footnote.

       D.  If you directly incorporate an image by someone else,
you should give credit to that person, in the title, or
following your signature, or in some other appropriate way.
Example: "... after Rembrandt."

       E.  No written paper or studio project created for credit
in one class should be used for credit in another class
except with the knowledge and permission of all professors concerned.

       F.  The research as well as the complete written paper or
studio project should be the work of the person seeking
academic credit for the course.

   III.  Faculty members may respond to plagiarism in any of
the following ways:

       A.  Return the work to be redone; the grade may be reduced.
       B.  Give a failing grade on the work ("F" or zero).
       C.  Give the student a failing grade in the course.

   IV.  Test Cheating may consist of any of the following:

       A.  Having access to exam questions beforehand.
       B.  Having access to course information during an exam period.
       C.  Observing another person’s test during the exam period.
   V.  If cheating occurs during a test, a faculty member may:

       A.  Seize the test of the offending student, or
       B.  Allow the testing to continue without interruption,
informing the offending student at the e end of the period
about the offense.

   VI.  Faculty members may respond to cheating in any of the
following ways:

       A.  Give a failing grade on the exam ("F" or zero).
       B.  Give a failing grade in the course.
       C.  Refer the matter for disciplinary action to the Office
of Student Affairs.

   VII.  Scope: These policies cover all classes in the
Department of Art.