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Permission depends on the School and task. HGSE permits learning uses such as clarification and brainstorming, but submitting AI-created assignments as your own is prohibited unless the instructor specifies otherwise. Social Studies has a broader default prohibition covering submitted work and thesis stages, with scoped course alternatives and approved thesis exceptions.
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Permission depends on the School and task. HGSE permits learning uses such as clarification and brainstorming, but submitting AI-created assignments as your own is prohibited unless the instructor specifies otherwise. Social Studies has a broader default prohibition covering submitted work and thesis stages, with scoped course alternatives and approved thesis exceptions.
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Generative AI Guidance – Office of Undergraduate Education
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All faculty are required to inform students of the policies governing generative AI use in class. Whether students in your course are forbidden from using ChatGPT or expected to explore its limits, a policy helps ensure that your expectations for appropriate interaction with generative AI tools are clear to students.
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FAS Office of Undergraduate Education requires faculty to inform students of the policies governing generative AI use in class. It recommends posting the policy on Canvas. This communication requirement does not choose an AI permission policy for the course.
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More specifically, you should post your policy on your Canvas site.
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FAS Office of Undergraduate Education requires faculty to inform students of the policies governing generative AI use in class. It recommends posting the policy on Canvas. This communication requirement does not choose an AI permission policy for the course.
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HGSE AI Policy | Office of the Registrar
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Unless otherwise specified by your instructor, it is a violation of the HGSE Academic Integrity Policy to use generative AI to create all or part of an assignment for a course (e.g., a paper, memo, presentation, or short response) and submit it as your own.
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HGSE states that, unless the instructor specifies otherwise, using generative AI to create all or part of a course assignment and submit it as one’s own violates its Academic Integrity Policy. Permissible learning uses include clarification, brainstorming and contextual scenarios; students must discuss uncertain uses with the instructor before use.
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Permissible uses of generative AI in HGSE coursework include seeking clarification on concepts, brainstorming ideas, or generating scenarios that help contextualize what you are learning.
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HGSE states that, unless the instructor specifies otherwise, using generative AI to create all or part of a course assignment and submit it as one’s own violates its Academic Integrity Policy. Permissible learning uses include clarification, brainstorming and contextual scenarios; students must discuss uncertain uses with the instructor before use.
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If you have any doubt about whether a specific use of generative AI is permitted for an assignment or course, you are responsible for discussing it with your instructor prior to using it.
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HGSE states that, unless the instructor specifies otherwise, using generative AI to create all or part of a course assignment and submit it as one’s own violates its Academic Integrity Policy. Permissible learning uses include clarification, brainstorming and contextual scenarios; students must discuss uncertain uses with the instructor before use.
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AI Policy | The Committee on Degrees in Social Studies
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Policy: the use of generative or agentic AI in any form is prohibited for aid in analyzing, idea-generation, research, formatting, organizing, outlining, drafting, revising, or editing any work submitted in Social Studies courses or other concentration requirements.
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Social Studies prohibits generative or agentic AI assistance in submitted coursework, exams/quizzes and all thesis stages by default. Instructors may publish alternative syllabus rules but must require disclosure. Thesis exceptions are case-specific: obtain supervisor approval, submit the AI Policy Attestation request, and secure DUS approval by November 1 of senior year, or April 1 for off-cycle fall seniors. The AI Policy Attestation form is required in consultation with the supervisor at Prospectus submission and again in senior year. Thesis work cannot reuse AI-assisted work from another course merely because that course allowed it. These rules apply to Social Studies requirements.
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This includes, but is not limited to, papers or responses or posts of any kind or length, in-class presentations, exams and quizzes, preparatory work for the senior thesis (e.g., the Prospectus), research and analysis for the senior thesis, and the drafting, editing, or revising of the senior thesis.
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Social Studies prohibits generative or agentic AI assistance in submitted coursework, exams/quizzes and all thesis stages by default. Instructors may publish alternative syllabus rules but must require disclosure. Thesis exceptions are case-specific: obtain supervisor approval, submit the AI Policy Attestation request, and secure DUS approval by November 1 of senior year, or April 1 for off-cycle fall seniors. The AI Policy Attestation form is required in consultation with the supervisor at Prospectus submission and again in senior year. Thesis work cannot reuse AI-assisted work from another course merely because that course allowed it. These rules apply to Social Studies requirements.
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Scope: The Policy serves as the default AI policy for all Social Studies courses, including any for which there is no explicitly stated AI policy. Individual instructors may utilize an alternative AI policy if they deem it pedagogically appropriate. Instructors will notify students in writing of any alternative policy on the syllabus and must require students to disclose the use of AI in all assignment submissions (e.g., a prefatory statement or footnotes throughout).
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Social Studies prohibits generative or agentic AI assistance in submitted coursework, exams/quizzes and all thesis stages by default. Instructors may publish alternative syllabus rules but must require disclosure. Thesis exceptions are case-specific: obtain supervisor approval, submit the AI Policy Attestation request, and secure DUS approval by November 1 of senior year, or April 1 for off-cycle fall seniors. The AI Policy Attestation form is required in consultation with the supervisor at Prospectus submission and again in senior year. Thesis work cannot reuse AI-assisted work from another course merely because that course allowed it. These rules apply to Social Studies requirements.
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AI-assisted work completed for another course (even one permitting AI use) may not be used in the Senior Thesis.
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Social Studies prohibits generative or agentic AI assistance in submitted coursework, exams/quizzes and all thesis stages by default. Instructors may publish alternative syllabus rules but must require disclosure. Thesis exceptions are case-specific: obtain supervisor approval, submit the AI Policy Attestation request, and secure DUS approval by November 1 of senior year, or April 1 for off-cycle fall seniors. The AI Policy Attestation form is required in consultation with the supervisor at Prospectus submission and again in senior year. Thesis work cannot reuse AI-assisted work from another course merely because that course allowed it. These rules apply to Social Studies requirements.
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To request an exception, students must first consult with and secure the approval of their thesis supervisor.
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Social Studies prohibits generative or agentic AI assistance in submitted coursework, exams/quizzes and all thesis stages by default. Instructors may publish alternative syllabus rules but must require disclosure. Thesis exceptions are case-specific: obtain supervisor approval, submit the AI Policy Attestation request, and secure DUS approval by November 1 of senior year, or April 1 for off-cycle fall seniors. The AI Policy Attestation form is required in consultation with the supervisor at Prospectus submission and again in senior year. Thesis work cannot reuse AI-assisted work from another course merely because that course allowed it. These rules apply to Social Studies requirements.
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Next, they must complete (or resubmit, if already completed) the AI Policy Attestation form section on requesting AI usage exceptions. The DUS may ask for additional information or to meet to discuss the request. Approval from the DUS must be secured no later than November 1 of the senior year (or April 1 for off-cycle seniors graduating in the fall).
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Social Studies prohibits generative or agentic AI assistance in submitted coursework, exams/quizzes and all thesis stages by default. Instructors may publish alternative syllabus rules but must require disclosure. Thesis exceptions are case-specific: obtain supervisor approval, submit the AI Policy Attestation request, and secure DUS approval by November 1 of senior year, or April 1 for off-cycle fall seniors. The AI Policy Attestation form is required in consultation with the supervisor at Prospectus submission and again in senior year. Thesis work cannot reuse AI-assisted work from another course merely because that course allowed it. These rules apply to Social Studies requirements.
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Students will be required to complete an AI Policy Attestation form (linked here) in consultation with their supervisor upon submission of the Prospectus and again in the senior year.
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Social Studies prohibits generative or agentic AI assistance in submitted coursework, exams/quizzes and all thesis stages by default. Instructors may publish alternative syllabus rules but must require disclosure. Thesis exceptions are case-specific: obtain supervisor approval, submit the AI Policy Attestation request, and secure DUS approval by November 1 of senior year, or April 1 for off-cycle fall seniors. The AI Policy Attestation form is required in consultation with the supervisor at Prospectus submission and again in senior year. Thesis work cannot reuse AI-assisted work from another course merely because that course allowed it. These rules apply to Social Studies requirements.
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