Here are the UCSC Codes of Student Academic Conduct. All campuses have these codes and they mostly follow the same guidelines. You are expected to follow these guidelines. Failure to follow will result in a failing grade for this course.
102.00 Grounds for Student Discipline
Chancellors may impose discipline for the commission or attempted commission (including aiding or abetting in the commission or attempted commission) of the following types of violations by students, as well as such other violations as may be specified in campus regulations:
102.01 All forms of academic misconduct, including but not limited to, cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, or facilitating academic dishonesty;
102.011 Cheating
Cheating is defined as fraud, deceit, or dishonesty in an academic assignment, or using or attempting to use materials, or assisting others in using materials, which are prohibited or inappropriate in the context of the academic assignment in question. This includes, but is not limited to:
a. providing answers to or receiving answers from others for any academic assignment. In "group assignments" and "cooperative learning" situations, it is the responsibility of the student to ascertain from the instructor to what degree the work must be done exclusively by the student or may be done in collaboration with others;
b. using notes, information, calculators, or other electronic devices or programs during exams or for assignments from which they have been expressly or implicitly prohibited;
c. improperly obtaining or using improperly obtained information about an exam or assignment in advance of its availability to other students, or assisting others in doing so;
d. putting one's name on another person's exam or assignment; or
e. altering previously graded work for purposes of seeking a grade appeal.
102.012 Plagiarism
Plagiarism is defined as the use of intellectual material produced by another person without acknowledging its source. This includes, but is not limited to:
a. copying from the writings or works of others into one's academic assignment without attribution, or submitting such works as if it were one's own;
b. using the views, opinions, or insights of another without acknowledgment; or
c. paraphrasing the characteristic or original phraseology, metaphor, or other literary device of another without proper attribution.
102.013 Furnishing false information in the context of an academic assignment. This includes, but is not limited to:
a. writing an exam or term paper for another person;
b. soliciting another person to take an exam or write a paper for one's own class;
c. submitting the same piece of work as partial fulfillment of the requirements in more than one course without permission of the instructor;
d. representing oneself as another person, or failing to identify oneself forthrightly and honestly in the context of an academic obligation; or
e. representing, explicitly or implicitly, that work obtained from another source was produced by oneself.
102.014 Creating an improper academic disadvantage to another student or an improper academic advantage to oneself. This includes, but is not limited to:
a. removing, defacing, hiding or deliberately withholding library books or other materials, particularly those with short-term loan periods or on reserve for courses;
b. contaminating a laboratory sample (e.g., a "mystery substance" in qualitative chemistry); or
c. altering the indicators of a practical exam (e.g., moving the pin in a dissection specimen in anatomy).
102.015 Interference with courses of instruction. This includes but is not limited to:
a. failure to comply with the instructions or directives of the course instructor; or
b. disruption of classes or other academic activities.
102.016 Theft or damage of intellectual property. This includes, but is not limited to:
a. sabotaging or stealing another person's assignment, book, paper, notes, experiment, or project; or
b. improperly accessing or electronically interfering via computer or other means with the property of another person or the University.
102.017 Selling, preparing, or distributing for any commercial purpose course lecture notes or video or audio recordings of any course unless authorized by the university in advance and explicitly permitted by the course instructor in writing. The unauthorized sale or commercial distribution of course notes or recordings by a student is a violation of these Policies whether or not it was the student or someone else who prepared the notes or recordings.
102.018 Copying for any commercial purpose handouts, readers or other course materials provided by an instructor as part of a University of California course unless authorized by the university in advance and explicitly permitted by the course instructor or the copyright holder in writing (if the instructor is not the copyright holder).
102.02 Other forms of dishonesty, including but not limited to, fabricating information, furnishing false information, or reporting a false emergency to the university;
102.03 Forgery, alteration, or misuse of any university, state, federal or other government documents, records, keys, electronic device, or identifications;
102.04 Theft of, conversion of, or damage to or destruction of, any property of the university or any property of others while on university premises, or possession of any property when the student had knowledge or reasonably should have had knowledge that it was stolen;
102.05 Theft or abuse of university computers and other university electronic resources such as computer and electronic communications facilities, systems, and services. Abuses include, but are not limited to, unauthorized entry, use, transfer, or tampering with the communications of others, and interference with the work of others and with the operation of computer and electronic communications facilities, systems, and services. Use of university computer and electronic communications facilities, systems, or services that violates other university policies or campus regulations;
102.06 Unauthorized entry to, possession of, receipt of, duplication of, or use of any university services; equipment; resources; or properties, including the university's name, insignia, or seal;
102.07 Violation of policies, regulations, or rules governing university –owned, -operated, or -leased housing facilities or other housing facilities located on university property;
102.08 Conduct, which constitutes:
a. physical abuse or physical assault;
b. threats of violence;
c. a threat to the health or safety of any person;
d. sexual assault, sex offenses; or
e. relationship violence;
