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ATTENDANCE: ENGLISH DEPARTMENT POLICY AND PROCEDURES
Effective starting 2010W
Policy: Students missing 40% or more of the classes, regardless of whether their absences are avoidable or unavoidable, may be considered unable to meet the "learning outcomes" of the course and may be excluded from the final examination.
Procedures:
1. In the event of students’ missing 12 hours, 4 seminar classes, or 4 meetings of a discussion section associated with a large lecture course, where an instructor wishes to invoke the attendance policy, the instructor must warn the students in writing. Email is acceptable; it is up to the students to ensure that their email addresses are up to date.
2. The written warning must advise the students that they will be asked to withdraw from the course if they miss 4 more hours, 1 more seminar class, or 1 more meeting of the discussion section.
3. An instructor who defers the sending of a written warning until after the students have missed more than 12 hours or 4 seminar classes or discussion section meetings must nevertheless allow the students the 4-hour, 1-seminar, or 1-discussion section period to improve their attendance before the students can be asked to withdraw.
4. Instructors are under no obligation to re-teach material that has already been taught in a regularly scheduled class.
5. Students who miss classes because of a disability and who are registered with the Disability Resource Centre must be given reasonable accommodation, which is to be negotiated at the beginning of the course between the student, the DRC, and the instructor.
6. Instructors may draw the Department's attendance policy to the attention of their students, either by including it on the syllabus or by referring students to the appropriate page on the Department's web site.