Attendance Policy for School of Drama 2011 1.

Students taking a Monday, Wednesday, Friday course are allowed three absences each semester. Students taking Tuesday, Thursday courses are allowed two absences over the semester. After achieving the total number of absences the students final course grade shall be lowered one letter for each additional absence. 2. If a student arrives late for class within ten minutes of the class start-time the student is to be allowed to participate in the class, but it is to be marked tardy in the grade book.

3. Every third tardy, the student will receive the equivalent of an absence in class and this is to be counted towards the total number of absences allotted for this class.

4. Students who arrive after ten minutes from the start time of class are to be counted absent for that day. It is the instructors prerogative as to whether the student is allowed to participate in that days classroom activities.

5. Roll is to be called at the beginning of each class and an accurate record of attendance must be kept in each professors grade book. Sign-in-sheets are not acceptable.

6. Medically documented excuses that are deemed acceptable by the professor are to be accepted and the attendance record is to be adjusted accordingly.

7. It is the students responsibility to provide professors with documentation of a medical excuse upon return to class.

8. Departmentally approved absences are to be approved and the attendance record is to be adjusted accordingly.