<York Calendars<Undergraduate Calendar 2001-2002<Faculty of Fine Arts<Grading and Academic Standards

Grading Policy

a. Within the first two classes, a written course outline must be provided to each student. Such an outline should announce the means of determining the final grade in a course. Such information must include the kinds of assignments, essays, examinations and other components which make up the grade; their relative weights; and any other procedures which enter into the determination of the final grade.

b. In exceptional circumstances, a previously announced marking scheme for a course may be changed; the new marking scheme must also be distributed in written form. Any changes to a previously announced marking scheme must have the consent of all students registered in the course, such consent to be signified by their signatures.

c. Feedback during course: Instructors are obligated to provide a mechanism by which students can be apprised of their progress in a course; in particular, students must be able to make an informed decision on whether to withdraw from a course. This will normally mean that students will receive graded feedback on work worth at least 15 per cent of the course grade before the deadline to withdraw from that course.

d. No examination or test worth more than 20 per cent of the course grade may be scheduled during the last two weeks of class time, but must be scheduled during the formal exam period.

e. Grades submitted by an instructor are subject to review by the teaching unit in which the course is offered, and by the Faculty of Fine Arts Committee on Administrative Affairs.