Personal Responsibility Sanction Course
The Personal Responsibility educational sanction course, offered by the Dean of Students Office, is a 4-hour class (broken down into two 2-hour sessions) which seeks to engage students about the decision making process.
The class aims to achieve this engagement through discussion, reflection, and activity centered on critical thinking skills. Specifically, the course dialogues with students about the role that their feelings and “self-talk” play in their ability to think critically about a decision. The course includes learning opportunities through personal reflection, journaling, group activities, homework assignments, and discussion.
The reflection booklet Thinking Errors is employed as the primary course material, and outlines 8 key “thinking errors” that can occur to prevent a person from seeing a situation objectively and responding responsibly. The course will challenge the students to become conscious of which errors they tend toward in their decision making, and will offer students the opportunity to discover strategies for overcoming these tendencies in their critical thinking processes.
Available Personal Responsibility Courses
Plagiarism Education Workshop
The plagiarism education workshop was developed at the request of University of Arizona faculty to address the increase in the number of students who commit plagiarism in academic assignments. The workshop provides students with an opportunity to explore general issues of integrity and ethical behavior, proper technical skills related to citation, and University resources for writing support.
Faculty and instructors assign the plagiarism education workshop as a sanction to students who violate the Code of Academic Integrity. The workshop consists of 4 two-hour sessions, over two weeks, or weekend sessions.