Since this course is time compressed, class attendance is vital. Class attendance is an important part of succeeding in this class and is expected of all students. Class time provides an opportunity for you to ask questions, clarify issues, and deepen your understanding of the concepts covered in the text. If you are absent or late, you are responsible for getting any notes, assignments, and schedule changes that you may have missed. Class attendance may affect marginal grades and will be considered when assigning participation points.

In addition, students will have another opportunity to earn points by participating in an in-class group project. Further guidance on this project will be provided closer to the time scheduled.

Using information from your readings, class lectures, and video segments, your group will prepare a proposal for land use in the 16-acre lower Manhattan district directly affected by the World Trade Center bombing. Specifically keep in mind previous ideas, legal requirements, public sentiments, and provisions for maintaining future security. What would your team then recommend in terms of meeting demands for office space, retail outlets, green space, street access, and providing for a suitable memorial to the victims of 9/11? You will have some time inside and outside of class for preparing your presentation. Your team is expected to use the lunch period on Saturday as a collective opportunity for working on this project. An overhead projector, VCR, and a dry erase board will be available for your use in presenting your ideas. At the end of the day, your group will deliver a 10-15 minute presentation to the rest of the class as if you were presenting to political leaders, retail investors, Port Authority administrators, survivors, and representative citizens from the local area. A 2-3 page outline of your proposal will be turned in to the instructor. This project will be graded on creativity, feasibility, demonstrated teamwork, content, organization, and overall presentation.

The final exam will be drawn from both the readings and your lecture notes. It will be be comprised of essay, short answer, and/or multiple choice questions. Make up examinations will not be offered except for documented emergencies. Even then, an alternate form of the examination will likely be substituted. In case of school cancellation due to weather or other reasons during the scheduled time for the final exam, university policy will be followed in the assigning of grades, which in the past has included the professor’s best judgment to what the student has earned up until that point. Therefore, it is in your best interest not to depend upon the final exam to make up for previously poor grades.

Write a 4-5 page research report on a topic related to homeland security; or, a 4-5 page review essay of 3 or more journal articles that each address the same homeland security issue. If you choose to complete this assignment, it is due the afternoon of Wednesday, September 11 by 5:00 PM.

It is expected that a full-time college student will spend a minimum amount of time in class attendance and study out of class approaching a 40-hour week. A person employed on a full-time basis should not simultaneously expect to maintain a full-time academic schedule. At the undergraduate level, this means that for each hour in class, a student is expected to spend at least three (3) hours doing homework. In other words, for this one-credit hour class, a student is expected to spend forty-five hours outside of class homework.

Cheating = Failure (please refer to attached Academic Integrity Statement). Cheating is unacceptable conduct and will result in an automatic grade of "F" for the course, and be reported to Academic Affairs. Students are required to do all of the work for this class on their own. Copying answers to exercises or examinations from anyone constitutes cheating. Allowing another student to copy one’s answers will be treated as cheating. Consulting with the instructor about any assignment does not constitute cheating and is encouraged.

The Political Science Department of the University of Central Oklahoma is asking all students taking political science courses to read the following Academic Integrity Statement. Our purpose in doing so is to ensure that all our students are aware of what is improper academic behavior.

As members of the academic community, students are expected to recognize and uphold standards of intellectual and academic integrity. The Political Science Department expects that its students will conduct themselves honestly. This means, above all, that students submit for credit work that is the product of their own efforts. Principles of academic integrity require that all dishonest work be rejected as a basis for academic credit, and that students refrain from any and all forms of dishonorable conduct in the course of their academic work.

The examples and definitions given below are intended to clarify the standards by which academic honesty and integrity is judged. The list is merely illustrative of some of the more common infractions. It is not intended to be exhaustive. Any question a student has about what constitutes inappropriate behavior should be directed towards their instructor. The rule of thumb to follow is: If in doubt, ASK!

Definitions and Examples

Plagiarism - Plagiarism is presenting another person’s work as one’s own. Plagiarism includes not only the exact use of another’s words, word for word, but also the paraphrasing or summarizing of the works of another person without acknowledgment, including the submitting of another student’s work as one’s own. The student is responsible for understanding the legitimate use of sources, the appropriate ways of acknowledging academic, scholarly, or creative indebtedness, and the consequences of violating this responsibility. In case of doubt, give a citation of the author you are using. Failure to indicate the extent and nature of one's reliance on other sources is plagiarism. A plagiarized paper will result in a failing grade on the work in question, and perhaps, for the entire course.

Cheating on Examinations - Cheating on examinations involves giving or receiving unauthorized help before, during, or after an examination. Examples of unauthorized help include the use of notes, texts, or "crib sheets" during an examination (unless receiving instructor approval), or sharing information with another student either during or after an examination.

Falsification - It is a violation of academic honesty to misrepresent material or to fabricate information in an academic exercise or assignment (e.g. false or misleading citation of sources, the falsification of the results of experiments or of computer data).

Multiple Submissions - It is a violation of academic honesty to submit substantial portions of the same work for credit more than once without the explicit consent of the instructor to whom the material is being submitted the second time.