The course-wide rules for late work, extensions, academic integrity and getting help.

Policies and support#

Late work and extensions#

Extensions are granted for documented illness or genuine emergency, on request before the deadline where possible. For the Field Report, a short extension is usually workable. For the Recovery Exhibit, the exhibition component has a fixed date — the session it’s presented in — so an extension there can only cover the written report, not the presentation itself.

Academic integrity, applied to this course#

The usual rules apply, with two points specific to a recovery practicum:

• Cite your sources like evidence, not like references. Every claim about your artifact — where a file came from, when a build was uploaded, what a forum thread said — needs a citation, the same way a fact in an archaeological report would.
• Recovering an artifact is not the same as copying someone else’s recovery of it. If a preservation community has already fully documented the exact artifact you chose, that’s a sign to pick a different one, not a shortcut.

Emulation, ROMs, and this course#

This course teaches emulation and archival-access methods as preservation skills. It does not endorse or require distributing copyrighted material, and no assessment should ask you to. See week 6 for the course’s full position on copyright, abandonware, and responsible archival access.

Getting help#

Studio time (see Studios) is the fastest way to unstick a recovery attempt — most problems are easier to diagnose in front of the artifact than over email. For anything affecting the whole class, contact the teaching team directly.