70% Exams
& Active
Learning
Participation
In Lecture
0-2% Active Learning Participation in Section 1 lectures *
28-30% Midterm (March) exam covering section 1 of the lectures *
40% Final exam (April) covering section 2 of the lectures and all labs
* We will be doing some active learning activities in 2 lectures of Section 1 (see schedule for when these
take place). For each session in which you participate, we will reduce the weight of your midterm by 1% and
award you 1% for participation. If you do not participate at all, you will not be penalized and your midterm
weighting will remain unchanged at 30%.
Academic Honesty
Plagiarism is a serious academic offence. From the U of T Calendar:
It shall be an offence for a student knowingly:
1. to forge or in any other way alter or falsify any document or evidence required for admission to the
University, or to utter, circulate or make use of any such forged, altered, or falsified document,
whether the record be in print or electronic form;
2. to use or posses an unauthorized aid or aids or obtain unauthorized assistance in any academic
examination or term test or in connection with any other form of academic work;
3. to personate another person, or to have another person personate, at any academic examination or
term test or in connection with any other form of academic work, i.e. to commit plagiarism;
4. to represent as one's own any idea of expression of an idea or work of another in any academic
examination or term test or in connection with any other form of academic work, i.e., to commit
plagiarism;
5. to submit, without the knowledge and approval of the instructor or whom it is submitted, any
academic work for which credit had previously been obtained or is being sought in another course or
program of study in the University of elsewhere;
6. to submit for credit any academic work containing a purported statement of fact or reference to a
source which has been concocted.
This ruling of course applies to all BIO130 lab work, which includes all written assignments. It's against
the rules to buy assignments or copy chunks from your friend's paper, and it is also plagiarism to borrow
passages from books or articles without identifying them.
Please be aware that it is also an academic offense to collaborate on individual work. Most specifically
for BIO130 students, this means that you need to work on your own for any pre-lab work (such as
flowcharts) and also for your library assignment (and for tests and quizzes). Some work in BIO130 is
group work (in the lab), and therefore you are expected and encouraged to collaborate, but anything that
you hand in as an individual student should be understood to be your own work. Please be sure you
understand this and if in doubt about whether something is individual work or group work, please speak
with your TA or post the question on the discussion board in the lab forum. It is always better to ask first if
in doubt!