Plagiarism occurs when one steals or uses the ideas or writings of another and presents these writings or ideas as his or her own.

Buying a paper from a research service or term paper mill.

Turning in another student's work with or without that student's knowledge.

Turning in a paper a peer has written for you.

Copying a paper from a source (text or web) without proper acknowledgment.

Copying materials from a source, supplying proper documentation, but leaving out quotation marks.

Paraphrasing materials from a source without appropriate documentation.

Turning in a paper from a "free term paper" website. "

The above information was taken and paraphrased from: http://ollie.dcccd.edu/library/Module4/M4-VII/plagar.htm

There are papers required for this course. One of the requirements for these papers is that you locate websites and incorporate information from these websites in your paper. You must not only properly cite all information you use, but you are also expected to put the information into your own words. Each paper has a required minimum length, and direct quotes from other sources are not counted in determining the "word-count" length of your paper.

If your paper contains material that is copied or paraphrased from any website, or from a paper previously submitted that material will be identified. If it is not properly documented, or if the quotation marks are absent, the material will be considered plagiarized.

In this course, the penalty for plagiarism is as follows:

1. First offense - the student receives the grade of "0" for the assignment or if particularly outrageous in the view of the instructor the student receives an "F" in the course..

2. Second offense - the student receives an "F" in the course

GRADING REQUIREMENTS:              So...how will you be evaluated?

Good question! Here is the answer and in a good bit of detail. First though, you should know that although all of this looks very imposing and somewhat daunting, the course is no harder than its counterpart that occurs in the regular classroom. This course should actually turn out to be quite a bit of fun, if you are interested in thinking about things in new ways. In this online medium all the information is being given to you at the beginning and it may seem to be a bit too much, but once you get a chance to look it over and reflect , you should see that it really is not that dissimilar to the standard classroom.

1. Attendance/Class Participation/Discussion: 26 class meetings of 29 @ 1 points each= 26 points

• 2. Written Assignments -Modules 1 to 6 @3 points each =  18 points

•                                       Modules 7 to 14 @ 4 points each =32 points

3. Case Studies:@3 points each = 8 in modules 7 to 14  =24 points

Description of a case related to the topic of the module – 1 point

References (urls) sites discussing the case from a theological, legal or philosophical perspecetive-2 points

BONUS WORK: Final Culminating Survey and Essay: 5points

TOTAL: 105 points

Additional Bonus work available throughout the semester.

Below you will learn how the grades will be determined and how you can earn the highest possible grade or number of points for each assignment and activity in the course.

FINAL GRADE:  Grading Scale for the Final Grade: Here are the cutoffs for course grades: