Religious Holidays

Students in EC101 DD or EE are automatically excused from 4 absences from lectures and 2 absences from discussion sections for any reason, including religious holidays.  Religious holidays use up your automatically excused absences.  If you know you will be absent for religious holidays, avoid missing class for other reasons so that you do not exceed the absence limits. My advice for students who miss class for religious holidays is the same as for students who miss class for other reasons: be sure to get class notes from other students EC101 DD or EE, complete your assigned reading and problem sets and, for discussion sections, attempt to attend a discussion section on another day.

EC101 DD and EE has a rigid schedule of lecture and exams, and I’m sorry to say that the day reserved for the first midterm exam falls on the second day of Rosh Hashanah, a Jewish high Holiday.  If you are an observant Jew, please read this explanation of your options.

If you have questions about religious holidays or conflicts with course requirements, please contact me at manove@bu.edu.  Kindly include “EC101 religious holidays” in the subject line.  TFs are not authorized to make decisions about religious holidays, so send any emails on the subject to me (cc your TF if you will miss your discussion section).

Click on this link to read the official BU Policy on Student Absence Due to Religious Observance.