COMP-109-Syllabus

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Academic Integrity | Students with Disabilities | Acomodaciones para estudiantes con discapacidades

Academic Integrity¹

Academic Integrity is a commitment to six fundamental values: honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility, and courage.

Honesty

Honesty forms the indispensable foundation of integrity. Be honest with yourself and with each other.

Ways to demonstrate honesty:

• Be truthful
• Give credit to the owner of the work (i.e., musician, author, artist, speaker etc.)
• Keep promises
• Provide factual evidence
• Aspire to objectivity, consider all sides and one’s own potential preconceptions

Trust

You promote trust by preparing work that is honest, thoughtful, and genuine.

Ways to demonstrate trust:

• Trust others
• Give credence
• Keep promises
• Encourage mutual understanding
• Act with genuineness

Fairness

You engagne in fairness by doing your own original work, acknowledging borrowed work appropriately, respecting and upholding academic integrity policies, and by maintaining the good reputation of SBCC.

Ways to demonstrate fairness:

• Engage with others equitably
• Keep an open-mind
• Be objective
• Take responsibility for your own actions

Respect

You show respect when you value and take advantage of opportunities to gain new knowledge by taking an active role in your own education, contributing to discussions, actively listening to other points of view, and performing to the best of your ability.

Ways to demonstrate respect:

• Practice active listening
• Receive feedback willingly
• Accept that others’ thoughts and ideas have validity
• Show empathy
• Seek open communication
• Affirm others and accept differences
• Recognize the consequences of our words and actions on others

Responsibility

You are responsible when you seek to obtain and understand information about classroom and institutional policy. You follow these policies and ask questions when you do not understand or disagree with them.

Ways to demonstrate responsibility:

• Hold yourself accountable for your actions
• Engage with others in difficult conversations, even when silence might be easier
• Know and follow institutional rules and conduct codes. For more information, see the SBCC Student Code of Conduct in the General College Catalog.
• Create, understand, and respect personal boundaries
• Follow through with tasks and expectations
• Model good behavior

Courage

You exhibit courage when you hold yourself and your fellow learners to the highest standards of academic integrity even when doing so involves risk of negative consequences, such as a bad grade, or reprisal from their peers or others.

Ways to demonstrate courage:

• Be brave even when others might not
• Take a stand to address a wrongdoing and support others doing the same
• Endure discomfort for something you believe in
• Be undaunted in defending integrity
• Be willing to take risk and risk failure

Students with Disabilities

Disability Services and Programs for Students (DSPS) coordinates all academic accommodations for students with documented disabilities at Santa Barbara City College. If you have or think you might have a disability that impacts your educational experience in this class, contact DSPS to determine your eligibility for accommodations.

If you have already registered with DSPS, please submit your accommodation requests via the‘DSPS Online Services Student Portal’ as soon as possible. This needs to be done each semester. If you have any questions or concerns about your accommodations, please make an appointment with a DSPS Counselor.

Complete this process in a timely manner to allow adequate time to provide accommodations.

DSPS is located in the Student Services (SS) Building, Room 160. Contact the DSPS office 805-730-4164; email: dspsp@sbcc.edu

Acomodaciones para estudiantes con discapacidades

Los Programas y Servicios para Estudiantes con Discapacidades (DSPS) coordinan todas las adaptaciones académicas para los estudiantes con incapacidades documentadas en Santa Barbara City College. Si usted tiene, o cree que podría tener una discapacidad que afecta a su experiencia educativa en esta clase, póngase en contacto con DSPS para determinar si califica para servicios.

Si ya está registrado en DSPS envíe las solicitudes de adaptación a través del ‘DSPS Online Services Student Portal’ tan pronto como sea posible. Debe completar este proceso cada término académico. Si tiene alguna pregunta o duda acerca de sus acomodaciones, haga una cita con un consejero de DSPS.

Complete este proceso de una manera oportuna para permitir el tiempo necesario para ofrecer la debida acomodación. Puede comunicarse por teléfono al 805-730-4164; o mandar un correo electrónico a dspsp@sbcc.edu.

1. THE FUNDAMENTAL VALUES OF ACADEMIC INTEGRITY, academicintegrity.org/images/pdfs/20019_ICAI-Fundamental-Values_R12.pdf. Accessed 19 Sept. 2023. ↩