Students are required to attend classes, laboratories, and clinical sessions for which they are registered. Students are graded according to course objectives and requirements established and distributed by the instructor. While attendance alone cannot be used as a criterion for academic evaluation in any course, the instructor has the prerogative to give or decline opportunities for making up work missed due to absences.

Excessive absence may result in lowering a student's grade. Excessive absence is defined as, with the exception of medically excused absence and religious holidays, more than three cuts in a class that meets three times a week or more than two cuts in a class that meets twice per week.  The instructor should be notified of extracurricular absences prior to missing of class. The application of this policy is left to the individual instructor who, at the beginning of each semester, will announce the specific requirements of his/her course.

The instructor may use the quality of class participation in determining student grades if it has been specified as a requirement of the course at the beginning of the term.

If you are subject to an extended absence (3 or more consecutive days) due to illness, death in the family or legal commitment, contact the academic department secretary.