Course Communications
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Students enrolled in these courses must use their WCC issued E-mail account. Students that do not currently utilize this account must activate it, and can then choose to forward messages to their favored E-Mail account. Throughout the semester, the instructor sends messages regarding syllabus updates, assignment updates, grade status, and other important announcements.
Interpersonal Communications
Just because you have paid for the privlege of enrolling in a course does not give you the right to call people
degenerative and offensive names. This is a growing problem that appears to be especially applicable to the critique environment. Students using language or actions that creates a hostile, uncomfortable, or unsafe environment for others to remain present, or is perceived to be degenerative, distasteful, or disrepectful to any person, race, class, or social group, will be immediately discharged from the class session, and forfeit all earned grading credits for the session. Students are strongly encouraged to complete COM 102 prior to registering for any of my classes.
College Closings
Students are strongly encouraged check the WCC Website for college closings due to weather conditions or other unforseen events. If you would like to be notified automatically by another media such as voice mail, text message, or E-Mail, then
log-in to MyWCC, to enable the Automatic Emergency Notification Service. It can save time, money, personal hardship, gas and the environment.
Attendance Policy
You are expected to be present for each class session. You are expected to participate in class lecture times do work during studio/lab as needed to complete images for your portfolio. Showing up and then not engaging in work for the class does not earn attendance credit. Tardiness of 15 minutes or more is considered as a half-hour of absence. Departing class early is considered unaccountable time, so attendance credit is not earned.
• Come in prepared to work. Running out of materials is not a reasonable excuse to leave early.
• Trips to stores to buy supplies or the like is not considered a wise use of class time, nor a reasonable excuse to depart class. These are errands that need to be completed outside of classtime.
• Contacting the instructor by e-mail or voice mail is encouraged if you find that extenuating circumstances will prevent you from attending class.
• The number of contact hours accrued during the semester is your responsibility. Make sure to read the grading policy regarding attendance since it can make a significant impact on the final letter grade.
• Lack of preparation on your part does not consitute an emergency on my part (the instructor). Students are expected to have an awareness of what is occurring in each class meeting by means of the course syllabus. Plan your studio work sessions accordingly, especially when it comes to inviting in friends, companions, or relatives to be photographed for assignments.
Attendance is more than just being a warm body in an instructional space
•Students are expected to be actively engaged with assignments and materials relevant to the course. Full attendance credit is garnered only when a student displays appropriate use of class or studio time.
Examples of unacceptable use of lecture or lab times:
• Hanging around in the lab area and socializing for extensive periods of time (10 minutes or more).
• Eating breakfast, lunch, or dinner during class or lab time is not acceptabe. Students ordering take-out food and using class time as their meal time does not garner credit. The Photo Lab is closed for one hour between classes to accommodate meals, which can be easily managed during these times.
• Surfing the Internet, checking e-mail, interacting with Facebook or the like, is not an appropriate use of classtime. Students are held accountable to this during any class meeting time.
• Students are responsible for bringing what's required to stay busy during class. Showing up for class and then sitting at a computer workstation, doing nothing, does not earn a student attendance credit.
Academic Integrity
The instructor is very aware of the possibility that the open format of cognitive assignments enables students to share answers and information to increase the likelihood of obtaining a better score. The instructor strongly encourages you to take ownership of your learning process. Do not reveal, share, copy, or discuss answers of cognitive assignments/quizzes until AFTER a deadline has expired. Clear evidence of plagiarism discovered among student work is subjected to all individuals involved receiving zero credit for the assignment in question.
Learning Accommodations
If you need an academic accommodation because of a learning disability, contact the instructor at your earliest convenience. You are not required to disclose any details about the disability with the instructor, but should contact a counselor in Learning Support Services (LA 104, 734.973.3342) to obtain documentation of the condition so that it can be verified. The instrutor can then make arrangements with you accommodate the condition.
Assignment Distribution Format
It is the responsibility of the student to obtain assignments and handouts for these courses, which are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs. It is required that a student has access to a computer, the Internet, a black-and-white printer, and paper. If you do not have access to these resources at home, then utilize the WCC Library Computer Commons.
Assignment Turn-in Work
• DO NOT E-MAIL ASSIGNMENTS OR IMAGES to the instructor unless there are extemporaneous circumstances that disallow you to do so. Contact the instructor prior to submitting work via E-Mail.
•Unless otherwise noted, all written assignments must be turned in by hand, in a hard-copy paper format. Make sure to write clearly and legibly with either a pencil or black/blue color pens. Other color pens do not make a professional impression. Word processed documents are also accepted, however, errors created during the transcription of the course material which result in incorrect responses are the responsibility of the student.
• Images for critique and portfolio evaluations are submitted on the Visual Arts Network, Class Folders/Turn-in Work, for each class. Details regarding the submission of images can be found on each course Website.
Late Assignment Policy
Assignments are accepted late but do not garner full credit.
Examination Make Up
Mid Term and Final Exams can be taken before or after the scheduled day of the exam. Students that are absent the day of the exam however, forfeit the points possible in any hands-on component designed into the exam. The hands-on questions are set up only on the day of the exam. The loss of these points can make a significant impact on the potential grade of the exam itself, and the final letter grade for the course.
Don Werthmann
digital photography instructor
The School of Visual Arts
washtenaw community college