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FINAL EXAMINATION (CUMULATIVE)
@ 9:00
am
*** The dates of the lectures and exams indicated above are subject to change upon
notice from the instructor. Any changes will be announced in class.
Course Policies
There will be no extra-credit work available for this course. There is
Extra Credit nothing you can do to change your grade other than performing better
on subsequent exams and attending and participating in class
meetings.
Work is due at the end of the class period on the assigned date.
Late Work Late work will not be accepted.
Your course grade will be based on five (5) quizzes (the highest 5 quiz
grades from the six (6) quizzes administered) each counting for 10%
of your final grade, your final (cumulative) exam (which accounts for
Grading Criteria 40% of your grade) and your attendance and participation (10% of
your final grade). Exam and quiz grades are based exclusively on
academic achievement and are not a reflection of need, desire, or
even effort (although students who work hard tend to make better
grades than those who do not.)
There will be no make-up exams. If you miss the final exam for any
approved and validated reason, you will be assigned an incomplete for
the course (and it will be your responsibility to contact me about taking
your final examination within the first 3 days of the semester following
that in which you received your incomplete.) For more information
about incomplete grading, see the section titled “Incomplete Grades”,
infra.
Make-up Exams
Approved absences: Death (of a close relative), serious illness (you),
religious events (see, infra), or participation in a University of Texas at
Dallas sanctioned athletic event (I will need advance notice of this
one!) All absences must be documented in order to be validated.
Documentation must be written and must be received by me no later
than 10 days after the missed exam.
Attendance: You are expected to attend every class session and any
unexplained absence will adversely affect your course grade. Also,
please avoid arriving late or leaving early. It is disruptive for everyone
and may also be factored into your attendance and participation
grade.
Class Attendance,
Participation, and Participation: You should be prepared to intelligently discuss the
Decorum topic of the day when called on (and you will be called upon), and you
should feel free to volunteer your thoughts and questions during the
class. That said, I consider the quality of an individual’s participation
far more important than the quantity. Quality participation can be
characterized by comments that clearly relate to the material, provide
analysis, or clarify or synthesize the main components of the
discussion.
Attendance and Participation: Some material that is assigned for
reading will not be discussed in class and much of the material for this
course (i.e., lecture and class summary material) cannot be found in
the required readings. All material assigned or discussed is fair game
for examinations. It should go without saying (but I’m saying it
anyway), that it behooves you to 1) read the assignments before
class, 2) attend lectures regularly, 3) come to each class prepared
with an analysis of the materials and questions posed for that day.
Decorum: You may not use (or even turn on) any laptops, cell
phones, messaging devices, pagers, audio players, video players,
sound recorders, video cameras, headphones, microwave-ovens or
any other electronic devices during class time. Do not nap. Do not
whisper to your neighbors. Bathroom visits and/or cigarette breaks
during class are strongly discouraged.
The faculty expects from its students a high level of responsibility and
academic honesty. Because the value of an academic degree
depends upon the absolute integrity of the work done by the student
for that degree, it is imperative that a student demonstrate a high
standard of individual honor in his or her scholastic work. Scholastic
dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, statements, acts or
omissions related to applications for enrollment or the award of a
degree, and/or the submission as one’s own work or material that is
Academic not one’s own. As a general rule, scholastic dishonesty involves one
Integrity of the following acts: cheating, plagiarism, collusion and/or falsifying
academic records. Students suspected of academic dishonesty are
subject to disciplinary proceedings.
Plagiarism, especially from the web, from portions of papers for other
classes, and from any other source is unacceptable and will be dealt
with under the university’s policy on plagiarism (see general catalog
for details). This course will use the resources of turnitin.com, which
searches the web for possible plagiarism and is over 90% effective.
Class Motto “We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around
us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see,
the more we are capable of seeing.” ~ Maria Mitchell
Course FIN 6309
Regulation of Business & Financial Markets
Term Fall 2008
Meetings Sa 8:30 – 11:15
Information Sheet
Name: ________________________________________________________________
What was (is) your undergraduate major? Where did you obtain your undergraduate
degree? When did you obtain your undergraduate degree?
Do you have any background information that would be relevant to this course (e.g.,
government employment, political volunteerism, small business/corporate experience)?
Do you work? If so, what is your job? What other jobs have you had?
Would you be interested in weekday, daytime MBA courses? If so, what time slots
would be most attractive to you?