Attendance Policy

Attendance Policy

While I am unwilling to resort to grade school tactics to encourage attendance, your attendance is expected. Some of the material is not in the text. Other topics are understood much more clearly by discussion than by merely reading over the notes.

Occasionally a person who misses class frequently expects to be tutored during office hours on material covered in class. While there may be reasons why this is necessary (sickness or some excused absence), generally this is not appropriate.

When it comes to final grades, a person who is always in attendance is given the benefit of the doubt if they are near a cut-off point. The reasoning is simple: One could make the case that the person learned lots of things from class discussion that could not be worded as a test question. A person who misses class frequently is given no such benefit.