Late work, extensions, the seminar attendance rule, and where the course's own subject matter changes what counts as academic integrity.

Policies and support#

Late work and extensions#

Both the attribution note and the dossier accept a 48-hour extension on request, no reason required, if you ask before the deadline rather than after it. The final project does not: it is due in the same week as the in-class defense, and a defense cannot be extended on its own.

Seminar attendance#

Seminars run on close reading of a single object — a painting, a seal, a colophon — brought to the room. Missing more than two without warning means you arrive at the dossier without having practised the argument style it asks for, which shows in the mark far more reliably than the attendance line on a spreadsheet does. Tell Marisol in advance if you’ll miss one; the seminar plan usually survives.

Declaring assistance#

Every assessment in this course is, one way or another, an argument that a specific claim is or isn’t true. That makes the ordinary university rule — declare what you used and how — unusually load-bearing here: an attribution note that quietly took its central claim from a chatbot and presented it as your own reading is exactly the failure mode the whole course studies, just moved from a scroll to a paragraph. Declare any AI or outside research assistance in a short footnote at the end of the piece it touched. Undeclared assistance is treated as a misattribution, not a citation slip: harshly, for reasons the course should have already made clear to you by week 3.

Getting help#

Office hours and seminar time cover almost everything. For anything that can’t wait, email the person whose page names the topic — Idris for materials and seals, Marisol for everything else — rather than the shared course address, which nobody is rostered to check between seminars.