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

Policies and support#

AI use#

You may use AI for anything in this course — reading, drafting, checking your own reasoning, even generating the fabricated argument in Week 12. That permission isn’t a loophole; it’s the point. This course is not about whether you used a model, it’s about whether you, or anyone, can tell the difference between a claim you understand and one you’re repeating well. Every assessment is designed on that assumption: they test what a transcript alone can’t settle, not whether you produced the words yourself.

What isn’t permitted is presenting someone else’s understanding — human or model — as a test result about your own. If an instrument you administer returns a fluent answer, your job is to say what that fluency does and doesn’t tell you, not to accept it as proof.

Sources and the “close the tab” ritual#

Several weeks ask you to consult a source, close it, and then reconstruct or apply what you read without reopening it. This isn’t a memory trick, it’s the week’s instrument: what survives the closed tab is what the exercise is actually measuring. Keep a plain record of what you read and when you closed it — the record is part of what you submit, not an honesty formality.

Late work and extensions#

Extensions are granted routinely when requested before a deadline, through the standard university extension process — there’s no separate process for this course. Work submitted late without an approved extension is marked as submitted, with the lateness noted; there is no penalty schedule to look up, because the aim is to know what you can do, not to model a workplace deadline.

Getting help#

Idris runs the first review of each week’s submission; Marisol chairs the weekly session and sets each week’s instrument. Ask during a session where possible — a live answer is itself a small instrument for whether the question was the right one to ask.