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<br />SIPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530627561501341364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080556719287534399.post-22398888330110505042015-10-01T21:32:00.002-07:002015-10-01T21:32:33.334-07:00Fall 2015 Syllabus<blockquote class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" type="cite">
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<span class="s1"><b class="">Sec. 001, Thursday, 1:30pm. - 6:00pm.</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b class="">INSTRUCTOR: Steve Ellis</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b class="">OFFICE: Shaffer 332, Mailbox Shaffer 102</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b class="">HOURS: Monday 12:30PM-1:30PM</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Illustration is an art of visual communication. It is a delivery system for ideas and feelings and stories. It engages our minds, our hearts and reflects our culture and the time we live in even as it sets us in history.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">At its heart, illustration is the visual representation of story. Whether that story is a recent event in the news, a science fiction adventure, a birthday greeting or a children’s tale doesn’t matter so much as the fact that they all share a common source in story.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Digital Illustration represents a revolution in the artists ability to create and distribute their work to a wide audience. Today we can make websites and have our work seen around the world, we can use tools that enable us to create 3d models and use every imaginable kind of texture and paint style. With these amazing tools we need to keep ourselves grounded in the traditional illustration process of thumbnail, sketch, approval and finish but can add reworking, photobashing, editing, any tools that has been available to artists throughout history is available to us in the digital world, but we need to take care to not get lost in all the gadgets and glitz. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">We will explore how to take our skills as artists, illustrators and storytellers and apply them to the needs of the digital workspace. To use the tools now available to push our understanding of visual literacy beyond the levels we’ve know before. To explore new ays of seeing and making art.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">By the end of this class you should have created a number of pieces using the assigned applications and create presentation of your images both digital and for print.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Students are expected to balance larger multi-week assignments with shorter in-class and homework assignments. An art career is fast-paced; students should expect to receive their next large assignment on the day of the critique of the previous large assignment, there will be no break between assignments. The art of survival as an illustrator is one of juggling projects and clients while making each client believe that they are your only one. Treat your assignments with care, follow the instructions for size, timing and deadline. The skill of taking care of your teacher is similar to the skill of taking care of a client. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Assignments and due dates will be described and handed out in class AND posted electronically. Saying you didn’t get the assignment is not acceptable. Assignment parameters will be described in detail. Make sure you follow each parameter precisely. In the world of professional illustration misreading an assignment (handing in the wrong size piece, missing an important detail, presenting/delivering the finished art in a form other than as was requested, etc) will mean that you, at best, have to re-do the piece, or at worse, will lose a client. Meet your deadlines! Late assignments will lower your grade, which is far better than what an art director will do with a late piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: CenturyGothic; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Digital lllustration Spring 2015 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">Instructor Steve Ellis</span><span style="background-color: rgb(79.779980%, 79.781870%, 79.780850%); font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">Office Shaffer 332, Mailbox Shaffer 102
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">Phone 315-289-5771<br />
Email </span><span style="color: rgb(0.670023%, 11.771740%, 66.518940%); font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">Steveart1@gmail.com
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">SU Email </span><span style="color: rgb(0.670023%, 11.771740%, 66.518940%); font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">Stellis@syr.edu
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">Office
Hours Monday </span><span style="font-family: CenturyGothic; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 700;">12:30-1:30pm</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(13.333330%, 13.333330%, 13.333330%); font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">Course information: ILL 365, Sec. 001 </span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(13.333330%, 13.333330%, 13.333330%); font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">Monday, 1:30pm - 6:00pm, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: CenturyGothic; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">3rd floor Computer Cluster Shaffer, Room 329</span><br />
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Illustration is an art of visual communication. It is a delivery system for ideas and feelings and stories.
It engages our minds, our hearts and reflects our culture and the time we live in even as it sets us in
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<span style="color: rgb(13.333330%, 13.333330%, 13.333330%); font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">At its heart, illustration is the visual representation of story. Whether that story is a recent event in the
news, a science fiction adventure, a birthday greeting or a children’s tale doesn’t matter so much
as the fact that they all share a common source in story.
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<span style="color: rgb(13.333330%, 13.333330%, 13.333330%); font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">Digital Illustration represents a revolution in the artists ability to create and distribute their work to a
wide audience. Today we can make websites and have our work seen around the world, we can
use tools that enable us to create 3d models and use every imaginable kind of texture and paint
style. With these amazing tools we need to keep ourselves grounded in the traditional illustration
process of thumbnail, sketch, approval and finish but can add reworking, photobashing, editing,
any tools that has been available to artists throughout history is available to us in the digital world,
but we need to take care to not get lost in all the gadgets and glitz.
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<span style="color: rgb(13.333330%, 13.333330%, 13.333330%); font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">We will explore how to take our skills as artists, illustrators and storytellers and apply them to the
needs of the digital workspace. To use the tools now available to push our understanding of visual
literacy beyond the levels we’ve know before. To explore new ays of seeing and making art.
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<span style="color: rgb(13.333330%, 13.333330%, 13.333330%); font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">In this class we will be taking advantage of a technique known as the “flipped classroom.” What
this means is that we will be watching and practicing techniques using video tutorials at home to
brush up and sharpen our skills with programs and in class we will be working on our projects and
testing our knowledge through creating new imagery.
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">LEARNING OUTCOMES
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">By the end of this class you should have created a number of pieces using the assigned
applications and create presentation of your images both digital and for print.<br />
You will be able to :
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt; vertical-align: -1.000000pt;">• </span><span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">Develop an understanding of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Sketchup<br />
</span><span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt; vertical-align: -1.000000pt;">• </span><span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">Understand which programs are best for Type, Design, Layout and Art creation,<br />
</span><span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt; vertical-align: -1.000000pt;">• </span><span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">Properly scan and prepare you artwork for reproduction including color correction
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: -1pt;">• </span><span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9pt;">Understand DPI, raster vs vector, advanced techniques including photobashing, frankensteining,
coloring for comics, designing a logo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt; vertical-align: -1.000000pt;">• </span><span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">Learn to combine natural media and digital media to create unique and interesting new pieces
of artwork the likes of which you have never seen.
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">ASSIGNMENTS
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">Students are expected to balance larger multi-week assignments with shorter in-class and
homework assignments. An art career is fast-paced; students should expect to receive their next
large assignment on the day of the critique of the previous large assignment, there will be no break
between assignments. The art of survival as an illustrator is one of juggling projects and clients while
making each client believe that they are your only one. Treat your assignments with care, follow
the instructions for size, timing and deadline. The skill of taking care of your teacher is similar to the
skill of taking care of a client.
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">Assignments and due dates will be described and handed out in class AND posted electronically.
Saying you didn’t get the assignment is not acceptable. Assignment parameters will be described
in detail. Make sure you follow each parameter precisely. In the world of professional illustration
misreading an assignment (handing in the wrong size piece, missing an important detail,
presenting/delivering the finished art in a form other than as was requested, etc) will mean that
you, at best, have to re-do the piece, or at worse, will lose a client. Meet your deadlines! Late
assignments will lower your grade, which is far better than what an art director will do with a late
piece.
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">Student work may be reproduced for use by the instructor.
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<span style="color: rgb(13.333330%, 13.333330%, 13.333330%); font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">TEXTs and other Resources
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<span style="color: rgb(13.333330%, 13.333330%, 13.333330%); font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">1. I will be arranging to get a student </span><span style="color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 60.000000%); font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">LYNDA.com </span><span style="color: rgb(13.333330%, 13.333330%, 13.333330%); font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">subscription for everyone. they have a
group rate which should amount to $10 a month and will be able to answer any and all questions
you have about the technology if I am not available. It’s an amazing resource and you should
take as much advantage of it as you possibly can.
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<span style="color: rgb(13.333330%, 13.333330%, 13.333330%); font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">2. Get to know Jan Mackay, our lab technician, on the 3rd floor (service window business
hours are Mon. - Fri. 9:00am-5:00pm.). She is responsible for use of the computer clusters and print-
outs. You must pay for services there with a blue "chit", which may be purchased in the Schine
Student Center
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<span style="color: rgb(13.333330%, 13.333330%, 13.333330%); font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">3. You may also use the computer cluster in Rms.329. See the posted schedule for times.
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4. Be familiar with these sites:</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">www.Behance.net
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">www.infectedbyart.com/
www.spectrumfantasticart.com
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">www.muddycolors.blogspot.com/
www.drawger.com/
www.conceptart.org/
www.theispot.com
shadowness.com/
www.pinterest.com
www.illoz.com
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">These reference sites can be helpful as well:
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<span style="color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 60.000000%); font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">www.corbis.com
</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 60.000000%); font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">www.shorpy.com
www.flickr.com
www.gettyimages.com
</span><span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">google images
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">google art project
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">5. </span><span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">DropBox: </span><span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">each student will be required to get a </span><span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">Dropbox </span><span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">account (for free up to 2 gigs,
more than enough for any student) for saving and sharing images and other file back and forth
with me. It’s easy, works great and most professionals use it.
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">The 90% New Rule
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-style: italic;">When using photos/images created by someone else in a collage to
create your new image, I stand by the 90% new rule. If anyone can
recognize the source of the photo within 90% of its original source, it is too
close and you need to rethink the image altogether. Anything less than a
90% change is plagiarism.
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">ATTENDANCE
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">Attendance is required. One absence for the semester will be tolerated; however, you are still
responsible for turning in assignments on time! If you will be absent when an assignment is due
make arrangements to send the work in with a classmate or deliver it to my mailbox ahead of time.
(See "Grading") </span><span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">Two absences, for any reason, will lower your final grade by one letter grade. You
will FAIL the course in the event of a third absence! </span><span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">Mechanical failures (alarm clocks, car failure,
etc.) are not valid excuses. In the world of professional illustration your art director will simply fire you
and never hire you again if you are too late or a no-show. Compared to that, my attendance
policy is kind and generous.
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">You are expected to arrive on time and remain until the end of class. If you are bored or have
nothing to do, you have come unprepared and should probably consider switching to a class in
which you have some interest. Lateness of an hour or more will count as an absence. Chronic
lateness or skipping out early will also count towards an absence and will lower your grade. Treat
me as you would treat an art director.
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">GRADING
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">CLASS GRADING RUBRIC
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">15% - Lecture/Classroom
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">.Attendance
.Participation
.In-Class Assignments
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">15% - Sketchbook/Reference File
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">.Consistently working in sketchbook throughout semester
.Gathering appropriate amount of reference<br />
.Properly cataloguing and display reference material
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">80% - Four Out-of-Class Assignments
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">.Assignments are #1=10%,#2=10%,#3=30%, #4=30%
.Spread out over a few weeks each<br />
.Meeting deadlines<br />
.Achieving goals (see separate assignment rubric)
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">But wait! That’s 110%! That can’t be right!
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">No student is going to get a full score all the time. The 95 points accounted for by Sketchbook/
Reference and Assignment are hard points that will be achievable by meeting strict assignment
goals. However, the 15 points for lecture and classroom participation give some leeway to reward
the students who are consistently in class and consistently showing concerted efforts to participate </span><span style="font-family: CenturyGothic; font-size: 9pt;">and work hard in their sketchbooks. This is kind of the “effort” grade, which should reward people
putting in extra effort--and also allow the people who struggle with concept/execution to make up
points by being involved.</span></div>
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</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">Incompletes will be granted only in extenuating circumstances. If you have a valid medical excuse
or family emergency, and you've completed the bulk of course work for the semester, an
incomplete is possible. You are responsible for initiating the paper work for an incomplete.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">Please see university policy on plagiarism, but the policy in here, is that if the work does not
significantly deviate from a reference it could be deemed as copyright infringement or plagiarism
and will not be tolerated.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">Syracuse University’s Academic Integrity Policy holds students accountable for the integrity of the
work they submit. Students should be familiar with the policy and know that it is their responsibility to
learn about course-specific expectations, as well as about university policy. The university policy
governs appropriate citation and use of sources, the integrity of work submitted in exams and
assignments, and the veracity of signatures on attendance sheets and other verification of
participation in class activities. The policy also prohibits students from submitting the same written
work in more than one class without receiving written authorization in advance from both
instructors. The presumptive penalty for a first offense by an undergraduate student is course
failure, accompanied by a transcript notation indicating that the failure resulted from a violation of
Academic Integrity Policy. The standard sanction for a first offense by a graduate student is
suspension or expulsion.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">For more information and the complete policy, see </span><span style="color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%); font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">http://academicintegrity.syr.edu
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">DISABILITY-RELATED ACCOMMODATIONS
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">If you believe that you need accommodations for a disability, please contact the Office of
Disability Services(ODS), </span><span style="color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%); font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">http://disabilityservices.syr.edu</span><span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;"> located in Room 309 of 804 University
Avenue, or call (315) 443-4498 for an appointment to discuss your needs and the process for
requesting accommodations. ODS is responsible for coordinating disability-related
accommodations and will issue students with documented Disabilities Accommodation
Authorization Letters, as appropriate. Since accommodations may require early planning and
generally are not provided retroactively, please contact ODS as soon as possible.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES POLICY
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">SU religious observances policy, found at </span><span style="color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%); font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">http://supolicies.syr.edu/emp_ben/
religious_observance.htm</span><span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;"> recognizes the diversity of faiths represented among the campus
community and protects the rights of students, faculty, and staff to observe religious holidays </span><span style="font-family: CenturyGothic; font-size: 9pt;">according to their tradition. Under the policy, students are provided an opportunity to make up
any examination, study, or work requirements that may be missed due to are religious observance
provided they notify their instructors before the end of the second week of classes. For fall and
spring semesters, an online notification process is available through </span><span style="font-family: CenturyGothic; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;">MySlice/StudentServices/
Enrollment/MyReligiousObservances </span><span style="font-family: CenturyGothic; font-size: 9pt;">from the first day of class until the end of the second week of
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<span style="font-family: 'CenturyGothic'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">This Syllabus is subject to change as needs arise.
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