Course Withdrawal

School of Public Health students may withdraw from a course through the second week of the semester without permission. No "W" will appear on the transcript. After the second week, students are required to do the following:

• The student must contact and notify their advisor and course instructor informing them of the decision to withdraw from the course.
• The student must send an e-mail to the SPH Student Services Center (SSC). The email must provide the student name, ID#, course number, section number, semester, and year with instructions to withdraw the student from the course, and acknowledgement that the instructor and advisor have been contacted.
• The advisor and instructor must email the SSC acknowledging the student is canceling the course. All parties must be notified of the student’s intent.
• The SSC will complete the process by withdrawing the student from the course after receiving all emails (student, advisor, and instructor). A "W" will be placed and remain on the student transcript for the course.
• After discussion with their advisor and notification to the instructor, students may withdraw up until the eighth week of the semester. There is no appeal process.

Disability Accommodation

It is University policy to provide, on a flexible and individualized basis, reasonable accommodations to students who have a documented disability (e.g., physical, learning, psychiatric, vision, hearing, or systemic) that may affect their ability to participate in course activities or to meet course requirements. Students with disabilities are encouraged to contact Disability Services to have a confidential discussion of their individual needs for accommodations. Disability Services is located in Suite180 McNamara Alumni Center, 200 Oak Street. Staff can be reached by calling 612/626-1333 (voice or TTY).

Scholastic Dishonesty and Plagiarism

Students are responsible for knowing the University of Minnesota, Board of Regents' policy on student conduct and scholastic dishonesty: http://www.umn.edu/regents/policies/academic/StudentConduct.html. Scholastic dishonesty as defined in the policy and will be reported to the Office of Student Judicial Affairs: http://www.sja.umn.edu/ and will result in a grade of "F" or "N" for the entire course.

Plagiarism is an important element of this policy. It is defined as the presentation of another's writing or ideas as your own. Serious, intentional plagiarism will result in a grade of "F" or "N" for the entire course. For more information on this policy and for a helpful discussion of preventing plagiarism, please consult University policies and procedures regarding academic integrity: http://cisw.cla.umn.edu/plagiarism/uofmpolicies.html.

Students are urged to be careful that they properly attribute and cite others' work in their own writing. For guidelines for correctly citing sources, go to http://tutorial.lib.umn.edu/ and click on "Citing Sources". In addition, original work is expected in this course. It is unacceptable to hand in assignments for this course for which you receive credit in another course unless by prior agreement with the instructor. Building on a line of work begun in another course or leading to a thesis, dissertation, or final project is acceptable. If you have any questions, consult the instructor.