You are allowed 3 free absences from FYP without it affecting your grade. 3 tardies will be counted as 1 absence. If you enter the room after we get to your name in the roll, you are tardy. (It is your responsibility to contact your seminar instructor immediately after class to change an absence to a tardy.) Gross tardiness is an absence. When you are absent/tardy, be sure to tell your seminar leader why you missed class time.

Once you have accumulated 3 absences, 2.5 will be deducted from your final grade (out of 100) for each additional absence.

Absence on a day when panel discussions, debates, and persuasive speeches are performed (yours or your peers) will count as two absences. If you miss your own panel discussion or debate, you fail the course. If you miss your own speech, you will get a 0 and be required to make it up in order to avoid failing the course.