All assignments and reports are due at the beginning of class on the due date. Late papers are not accepted and receive no credit. Assignments will be announced in class. Credit received for assignments will be added to the total course point total. You are responsible for assignments even if you do not attend class on the day an assignment is announced, or for some reason, fail to note the assignment at the time it is announced.

On occasion, there may be group projects in which members of the group will work collaboratively on the assignment. Each member of the group may receive a common score on the project, as well as an individual score for his/her contribution to the assignment's completion. A collaborative assignment means that one comprehensive report/project is turned in. Although each member uniquely contributes to the whole, the project is not a sequential compilation of each individual's component part. For example, a text chapter summary should consist of one cohesive report, not three or four independent sections, each completed by one member of the group.

Some assignments are in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. If you need to install the Adobe Reader plug-in, click on the Acrobat button below to connect to the Adobe website for instructions on how to download and install Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer. Older versions of Web browsers may be more reliable for downloading Adobe files. Newer browser versions that open the file within the browser may "freeze" the computer rather than loading the entire Adobe file. This quirk is independent of the browser used. It's best to configure your web browser to download the Adobe files to the computer desktop. You can then open the files in Adobe Reader.