Instructors are responsible for providing accurate and timely information about their courses to prospective students, current students, and relevant members of the University community.

1. Instructors must provide academic units and students with accurate course descriptions in a timely fashion. Instructors should use official information tools, to provide information about courses to students.
2. The course descriptions available in University catalogs and/or in the Course Guide must be generally consistent with the content of the actual course taught, though the content may vary somewhat with the individual instructor and across sections.
3. At the beginning of each course, instructors must communicate the course objectives. Class activities should be directed toward the fulfillment of these objectives and student performance should be evaluated in relationship to these objectives.
4. If an instructor changes the course requirements or materials, students should be given timely notice consistent with the magnitude of the change (e.g., a few days of notice for an additional article to read or a few weeks of notice if a paper is t added). No major change (e.g., adding a research paper or major examination) should be imposed after the second week of the semester.
5. In accordance with Administrative Policy: Grading and Transcripts, instructors must inform students in their classes of the methods to be used in determining course grades, i.e., evaluation criteria and the contribution to the final grade of each graded component.
6. At the beginning of the course, instructors must inform students of any requirements related to regular course attendance and participation.
7. At the beginning of the course, instructors must inform students of any special attendance requirements. This includes, insofar as possible, specific dates, times, and places of additional outside-of-class work such as field trips, study sessions, or extra class meetings, and whether or not attendance at these additional activities will be reflected in the grade. If an instructor schedules mandatory activities that occur outside the regularly scheduled class time, information about these activities must be included on the syllabus and, when possible, in the class schedule.
8. Instructors should discuss scholastic dishonesty and what it means in the context of their class (e.g., whether collaboration is permitted and limits on it, requirements about and methods for citing sources, whether direct quotes are allowed and to what extent, receiving or giving aid on tests, and using electronic aids or communications during exams when prohibited).