Mask-Wearing
COVID is still circulating widely, evolving quickly, increasingly contagious, and remains a danger to health. For this reason we encourage, recommend, and respectfully request (but cannot legally require) that persons in our classroom wear facial coverings whenever possible. However, in the interest of supporting clear communication, we feel it is an acceptable risk for a student or professor to temporarily unmask if they are actively giving a presentation or speaking to the entire room.
This course adheres to the university’s current guidance on COVID-19, which will continue to be updated as the semester approaches, including information about masking, testing and vaccination requirements. Broadly, we intend to continue an in-person mode as the semester begins. Students are expected to attend class in-person unless they have been instructed to isolate due to their own positive COVID-19 status.
Health-Related Absences
Please evaluate your own health status regularly and refrain from attending class and other on-campus events if you feel even slightly unwell. You are emphatically encouraged to seek appropriate medical attention for treatment of illness. In the event of any contagious illness, please do not come to class or to campus to turn in work. Instead notify me by email about your absence as soon as practical, so that accommodations can be made. Please note that documentation (a Doctor’s note) for medical excuses is not required.
Classroom Streams/Recordings
Students who are unable to attend class in person may request that a session be recorded or streamed over Zoom. We will make a good-faith effort to accommodate such requests, particularly for lectures. For non-lecture events (demonstrations, discussions, critiques, workshops, work days), it may be impossible to document the session satisfactorily.
Recordings of class sessions, if they are made, are covered under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and must not be shared with anyone outside the course. The purpose of these recordings is so students in this course (and only students in this course) can watch or re-watch past class sessions. Feel free to use the recordings if you would like to review something we discussed in class or if you are temporarily unable to attend class.