III. Course Requirements

1. If an instructor is 10 minutes late, the class is considered dismissed.
2. The instructor of a class determines the requirements for the successful completion of a given course. The instructor will inform students through a written syllabus of these requirements and grading policies within the first week of the opening of the class. Each syllabus must contain the following information:
   1. Instructor office location, phone contact(s), and email address(s)
   2. An explanation of how office hours are used in the context of the course along with information on when and how the instructor will hold office hours (In-person, Teams, Zoom, combination, etc.)
   3. Course purpose and learning objectives
   4. Schedule of class meetings and locations (if applicable) 
   5. Descriptions of assignments with due dates
   6. Methods of Evaluation/Activities
   7. Evaluation tools
   8. Performance criteria, including attendance and participation expectations/guidelines
   9. Grading standards or descriptors, including method of determining final grade
   10. Policy for make-up exams and late assignments (Note: Pursuant to University policy, a student cannot be required to provide documentation of illness or family emergency.)
   11. A “Course AI Policy” that explains the acceptable and unacceptable uses of AI technology in the course. To foster respect for the diversity of AI uses employed by instructors, the course policy should conclude with the following note: “This AI policy applies only to this course. For other courses, please follow those professors’ AI policies, which may differ from this one.”
   12. For Online Courses Only
       1. Explanation of course structure (synchronous, combination of synchronous/asynchronous, etc.) and platform for course delivery 
       2. Required technologies for students to be successful in the course
3. In those cases in which a student misses class meetings due to participation in activities which are officially approved by a Dean or the Office of the Provost, the student will be permitted to fulfill the missed requirements of the course.
4. As a general standard, one semester credit hour is to represent 45 hours of student involvement. One semester credit hour equals one hour of classroom or direct faculty instruction and a minimum of two hours of out-of-class student work each week for approximately fifteen weeks. In the fall and spring semesters the portion of this involvement that is dedicated to recitation or lecture is established as 55 minutes in length per week over 14 weeks. In summer sessions and in other time-shortened arrangements an equivalent of this dedication is required exclusive of registration and final examination periods.
   
   Curriculum committees in each college or school and the University Curriculum and Academic Regulations Committee provide periodic compliance reviews for new and existing programs to evaluate the application of its policy on credit hour across the institution to assure that credit hour assignments are accurate and reliable. Departments are responsible for submitting new course approval requests that include a detailed description of how credit value is justified. All syllabi are retained in the respective academic units.