ITM 433
Information Assurance

Course Rules

The Shidler College of Business is a professional school. In addition to learning conceptual material, Shidler students must develop professional work habits. These habits are also needed for classes to be conducted properly

Mobile Phones

Please turn off audible mobile phones at the start of class.

Laptops

You may not use laptops for non-class purposes.

Electronic Mail

In business, professionals are expected to check their e-mail daily or more often. Students also must check their electronic mail at least daily. Homework assignments and time-sensitive announcements will be sent via e-mail throughout the semester.

Work Quality

Professionals are expected to do good work, especially professionals in information systems.

• Homework not done completely and well will receive no credit at all.

•   I will not accept review questions that have obviously been rushed or show that the student has not read the book well

• Absolutely no credit will be given for homework that skips the end-of-chapter questions.

•    There will be heavy deductions for any omitted questions.

Attendance

In business, employees and especially managers are expected to show up each day and to attend all meetings. In the same way, attendance in class is mandatory. Missing seven classes may result in expulsion from class with a letter grade of F. Students with problems in this area must discuss them with the teacher at the beginning of the semester.

Students are expected to attend the first class, just as they are expected to show up for work on their first day on the job. Students are permitted to register for a class after a few days. This does not excuse them from attending the first few classes.

Commitment

In business, if you try to do everything, you end up achieving very little. If a student is working outside school, he or she must limit work time to be consistent with class work requirements.

University workload standards require two hours of work outside class for every hour in class. It is impossible to work at a job 40 hours a week and take 12 to 18 credit hours under standard outside-class time requirements. It is possible to do so where university requirements have been attenuated so that little outside-class time is required, but this is the College of Business Administration. Students who need to work must limit the credits they take.

Promptness

In business, employees are expected to come to meetings on time. The class begins at 9 am. Students who are chronically late will be barred from class if they arrive more than five minutes after the class begins. We cannot have students dribbling in throughout the first five to ten minutes of class. Students who have what they consider to be a legitimate reason for being late more than occasionally should discuss this with the teacher at the start of the semester.

Meeting Behavior

In business, proper decorum is necessary in meetings. A repeatedly disruptive student will have his or her letter grade reduced or even failed for the semester. This does not mean that students should not challenge the teacher or one another intellectually. However behavior that is disruptive will not be tolerated here, just as it would not be in business.

In both business meetings and class meetings, it is rude to the person speaking to carry on side conversations. Side conversations during lectures or when another student is speaking are to be avoided.

Ethical Behavior

If you turn in homework that someone else did in a previous semester, you will get an F for the entire course.

You may not copy someone else’s homework. If two homeworks come in the same or nearly the same, I will flunk you for the course.

You must not do all of your homework as a group, so that all or nearly all of your answers have the same content (even if they are written differently). If two homeworks come in that have the same content or nearly the same content, you will get a letter grade of 0 for the assignment. If it happens again, you will get a zero for your homework grade.

MIS professionals must be trusted, because they may have access to a wide variety of confidential and personal information. Cheating will not be tolerated. On exams, cheating consists of looking, even once, at another paper. People who cheat on an exam will be failed in the course. I will also pursue their expulsion from the university.

Brimmed hats must be taken off or turned around during exam.

If someone is looking around too much during an exam but if I have not caught them cheating, I may ask them to stop looking around, and I may ask them or someone else to move.