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Required Readings, Class Notes and Examinations
The Environmental Planning Handbook for Sustainable Communities and Regions by Tom Daniels & Katherine Daniels.

All readings for this class that are not drawn from the Daniels/Daniels text will be available for downloading from the departmental server via links to the instructor’s webpage. Similarly, PowerPoint formatted summary notes of lecture subjects will be available for downloading from the departmental server. You will be held responsible for all materials used during this course – including materials covered during classroom lectures and readings from required sources (regardless of whether they are covered in lectures). Any and all of this material may be relevant to questions on the exams. Therefore, even though no attendance record will be kept, you may find it difficult to be conversant with all of the materials unless you attend all of the classes and undertake all of the readings.

There will be 2 take-home, open-book, essay-style exams in this course. There are usually 3 or 4 questions per exam. At the instructor’s discretion, there may also be some number of “extra credit” questions available for those students who wish to improve their standing in this course. The mid-term exam will count for 40% of your final grade. The final exam will count for 60% of your final grade.

The UNC Charlotte Code of Student Academic Integrity governs the responsibility of students to maintain integrity in academic work, defines violations of the standards, describes procedures for handling alleged violations of the standards, and lists applicable penalties. The following is prohibited in that Code as violating those standards:
A. Cheating. Intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, notes, study aids or other devices in any academic exercise. This definition includes unauthorized communication of information during an academic exercise.
B. Fabrication and Falsification. Intentional and unauthorized alteration or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise. Falsification is a matter of altering information, while fabrication is a matter of inventing or counterfeiting information for use in any academic exercise.
C. Multiple Submission. The submission of substantial portions or the same academic work (including oral reports) for credit more than once without authorization.
D. Plagiarism. Intentionally or knowingly presenting the work of another as one's own (i.e. without proper acknowledgement of the source). The sole exception to the requirement of acknowledging sources is when the ideas, information, etc. are common knowledge.
E. Abuse of Academic Materials. Intentionally or knowingly destroying, stealing or making inaccessible library or other academic materials.
F. Complicity in Academic Dishonesty. Intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another to commit an act of academic dishonesty.

A full explanation of these definitions and a description of procedures used in cases where student violations are alleged are found in the complete text of The UNC Charlotte Code of Student Academic Integrity. This Code may be modified from time to time. Users are advised to contact the Office of the Dean of Students to assure they consult the most recent edition.