Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

In this course, plagiarism is defined, for the purposes of this class, as: copying, borrowing, or appropriating another person’s work and presenting it as your own in a paper or oral presentation, deliberately or by accident. Acts of plagiarism will be reported in accordance with the Honor Challenge. In particular, if you engage in plagiarism or any other form of academic misconduct, you will fail the assignment in which you have engaged in academic misconduct and be referred to the Office of

Student Integrity, as required by Georgia Tech policy. In order to avoid being charged with plagiarism, if you use the words, ideas, phrasing, charts, graphs, or data of another person or from published material, then you must either: 1) use quotation marks around the words and cite the source, or 2) paraphrase or summarize acceptably using your own words and cite the source. The plagiarism policy is not restricted to books, but also applies to video & audio content, websites, blogs, wiki’s, and podcasts. 

Another serious type of academic misconduct is the improper use of Artificial Intelligence. In this course:

• Students may not use AI when conducting research because one goal of this course is to learn how to identify, find, digest, and interpret expert sources.
• Students may not use AI when writing because one goal of this course is to build skills and experience in critical thinking, communication, and original thought (i.e., avoid plagiarism).
• Students may use AI when creating graphics and data visualizations because, while one goal of this course is to learn how to identify high v. low quality visualizations, students need not become skilled graphic designers. 

Students are also expected to read and abide by the Georgia Tech Student Code of Conduct and the Academic Honor Code. All violations will be reported. The complete text of these two Codes may be found at:   

1. https://policylibrary.gatech.edu/student-life/student-code-conduct
2. https://policylibrary.gatech.edu/student-life/academic-honor-code

Students are also strongly urged to be familiar with these Georgia Tech sites:

1. Honor Challenge — https://osi.gatech.edu/students/honor-code
2. Office of Student Integrity — http://www.osi.gatech.edu/index.php/Core