As with all courses, there is an overload of information provided to you. The Syllabus alone is a pseudo legal document that covers everything from Title VIII, Accessibility, Text books, and Security Emergency Contact information. Luckily in general, all that material (Minus the text book) is relatively boiler plate and the verbiage is provided by ASU and the respective departments.
The goal of this section is to outline those Policies, Practices, etc… that are put forth specifically by me and pertain to your class. It is expected that you go through all of them. The majority of these items have been asked 20-30 times every semester and as you can imagine after 10 years at ASU, close to 20 years in general teaching at the collegiate level… I’m tired of saying the same thing quite possibly 1000’s of times. Therefore, if a question pops up that has already been handled, will simply direct students back to this and move on so we can spend the very valuable time of class on lectures, examples, and items that will benefit the entire class rather than repeating ourselves for the nth time and taking time away from class due to absences / not paying attention the first 20 times.