Expectations

Communication

• • • Course information and assignments will be on this website.
    • When you e-mail Professor Sarachan, use an appropriate subject and greeting (“Professor Sarachan,”) to receive a timely response. It is strongly that you use your Fisher e-mail to send the professor messages (so as to avoid getting your e-mail stuck in the SPAM filter.)  You will almost always receive a response within 24 hours.  Do not expect a response in the evening (if sent the same evening) or anytime Friday night or Saturday.

Statement of Inclusion

College Policy Concerning Students with Disabilities

In compliance with St. John Fisher College policy and applicable laws, appropriate academic accommodations are available to students with disabilities. All requests for accommodations must be supported by appropriate documentation/diagnosis and determined reasonable by St. John Fisher College. Students with documented disabilities (physical, learning, psychological) who may need academic accommodations are advised to refer to the Disability Services website

http://home.sjfc.edu/AcademicAffairs/Disabilities/DisabilityOverview.asp

Questions should be directed to the Coordinator of Disability Services in the Disability Services Office and Test Center, Kearny 300. Late notification will delay requested accommodations.

Professor Sarachan’s addendum: Please speak to me about any thing I can do to help your ability to learn and be successful in class.  Individuals learn differently and some methods of teaching can be more or less effective for different people.  I’d like to hear about and discuss what I can do to help you achieve success, whether or not this is related to a documented issue.  

Academic Honesty

The work that students submit must be 100 percent their own. Anything else is plagiarism, which is a serious offense both academically and professionally. Communications professionals who plagiarize the work of others are fired from their jobs; students can expect severe repercussions as well, starting with a grade of ZERO on any assignment that the instructor discovers has been plagiarized. (Plagiarism also is punishable by further sanctions, up to and including expulsion from school.)  The college’s academic honesty policy, which includes descriptions of problem practices, procedures for addressing suspected plagiarism and potential sanctions for violating the policy, is posted at http://www.sjfc.edu/PDFs/AcademicHonesty.pdf.
The professor will report all cases of plagiarism to the registrar’s office.

In web development and programming, plagiarism includes letting others complete your work for you or using copyrighted images*.  It does not include using snippets of code from various sites whose purpose is to offer free code for use; all web developers/programmers do this. However, there is a point where you are copying too much—if the program as used is noticeably similar to the original program.  (This includes copying the Professor’s examples.) In these cases, I will file (and have filed) a plagiarism report with the college.

*Fair use may come into play for images.  Talk to the professor.