If it does, its always clearly stated at the beginning of the course. And the hardest part isn’t the research; its giving credit to the people who made your original ideas possible in the first place. When you learn how to integrate those ideas with yours, you have made an original scholarly contribution. And whether that stands up can be verified when the reader of your paper checks up on the sources that led to your achievement.
I was just wondering whether there would be an opportunity to buy canned essays for this class.