• Academic integrity and Plagiarism 3%
• Course discussions 12%
• Module Quizzes 12%
• Activities 8%
• Midterm Examinations 25%
• Final exam 40%

NOTES:

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING MISSED EXAMS, QUIZZES AND PROJECTS: 
In fairness to all students, there will be no extensions for missed exams, presentations, and quizzes except for extenuating medical circumstances and unjustifiable missed quizzes, presentations and exams will receive a zero. Please note that presenting a doctor’s note will not automatically excuse students from missed exams, assignments, and presentations. 

Students who miss exams and presentations due to exceptional circumstances (such as serious illness or compassionate reasons) are required to contact the instructor immediately.

They must bring a health care provider statement to their physician for completion, whereby the physician states that in her/his medical opinion the student was unable to write her/his exam or attend the class on the set date due to a medical condition beyond their control, or other supporting documents to obtain consideration in the course. The completed note should state the limitations caused by your sickness (eg. requires bed rest, will not be able to sit for extended periods, cannot concentrate, etc). Only the first doctor’s note may be considered. SFU provides health care provider statement at http://www.sfu.ca/students/health/resources/faq/sick-notes.html 

Students are also responsible for the follow-up with the instructor regarding their absence from the exam, missed assignment, or presentations. If the instructor approves the student’s documents, then the instructor will decide how the student may be accommodated for the missed component of the course. Missed group presentations can not be rescheduled. For students who miss attending their presentations for extenuating medical circumstances, upon submitting appropriate documentation, which is approved by the instructor, their final exam mark will be used instead.   

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: Students are advised that acts of intellectual dishonesty and student misconduct are subject to disciplinary action by the University. Serious infractions are dealt with in accordance with SFU’s Academic Integrity:  http://students.sfu.ca/academicintegrity.html 

Students are responsible for knowing the policy and informing themselves of the definitions and consequences. Any student found cheating in this course will automatically receive zero for this course.    

Grading scale* Grading Scale for BPK 140 D100 

*Typical grade boundaries and distributions for lower and upper division courses are shown above. It is expected that grades will approximately fit a normal distribution, with discrimination between learners of differing ability, and that letter grades will correspond approximately to the percentage scores provided.

However, scaling of grades may be necessary, particularly to enable instructors to incorporate novel pedagogical approaches in their teaching and assessments that may produce unusual distributions of percentage scores when first implemented, or to ensure equivalency between courses or instructors, without unfair advantage or disadvantage to students. Accordingly, BPK instructors have the right to scale grades.  Additionally, grades are subject to approval by the Chair of BPK, who may require that grades be scaled, particularly in cases where the distribution of grades is not normal, or where effective discrimination between learners has not been achieved.  For this reason, students should not assume that a specific percentage score will be always associated with a specific letter grade. In the case of scaling of grades, student ranking within a class will not be affected.