Academic Integrity

What is Academic Integrity?

General principles of academic integrity include and incorporate the concept of respect for the intellectual property of others, the expectation that individual work will be submitted unless otherwise allowed by an instructor, and the obligations both to protect one’s own academic work from misuse by others as well as to avoid using another’s work as one’s own. All students are expected to understand and abide by these principles. Faculty members may include additional classroom and assignment policies, as articulated on their syllabus.

Here are some resources for further learning:

• Academic Integrity: A Guide for Graduate Students
• USC’s Office of Academic Integrity
• Academic Integrity Expectations in the USC Student Handbook, page 11
• Academic Integrity Tutorials from the USC Libraries
• USC’s Unifying Value of Integrity