Math 322 Course Policy Summer II 2007

INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Ted Laetsch

Office: Room 622, Math Building (subject to change)
Phone: 621-6860
email: laetsch@math.arizona.edu
Course Web site: http://math.arizona.edu/~laetsch/322073/

OFFICE HOURS: To be announced

TEXTBOOK: Advanced Engineering Mathematics, 9th ed. by Erwin Kreyszig

For material covered, see Calendar/Syllabus and the links on the Course Home Page.
INTERNET ACCESS: Students are assumed to have access to email and to the internet, both of which will be used to distribute and to post course information. Email should be checked daily.
Please send me (by email) your email address as instructed on the Course Home Page.
(Note: Some of the links given in this policy may not be active or MAY NOT BE CORRECT immediately, but they should all become operational before the second week of classes. Please inform me of any apparent errors in the links.)

CLICKERS: Each student should have a “clicker” for responding to in-class concept-test questions. Please send me your clicker registration number by email.

ABSENCE POLICY: In general, attendance is not monitored; however, students who miss the first two days may be administratively dropped, and students with many consecutive absences during the semester (e.g., more than 4 classes, together with missed homework or exams) may be administratively dropped. This applies also to students who are auditing the course. It is unlikely that you can keep up with the material in the course if you miss class.

HOMEWORK: Problems will be assigned almost every lecture and you will be asked to turn in some of them to be graded and/or given quizzes over the assigned material. Although consultation among students is encouraged, the work turned in should not be a copy of someone else's work. More information on Homework is or will be online at Homework Policy and Homework Format.
CAVEAT EMPTOR: I may not catch all the mistakes you make when I grade your papers. Your making an error which I accidentally overlook is NOT necessarily an excuse for making the same error on the exams.

EXAMS/GRADING POLICY: There will be at least two and probably three “midterm” exams and, on the last day of class, a comprehensive Final Examination. See Exam Guidelines for more information on how to write your exams. Make-up exams will be given at the instructor's discretion and only if an exam is missed for a valid, serious reason. You must notify me of the need to miss an exam as soon as possible.

The exams assume familiarity with ALL material presented in class, in addition to the material in the textbook and assigned for homework.

The dates for the “midterm” exams will be announced in class at least two lectures in advance. Approximate dates are given in the Course Calendar/Syllabus. The Final Exam will be on the last day of classes.

Course grades will be determined as follows:

300 points will come from the total of all "midterm" exams (this is true whether there are two or three midterm exams).
200 points will come from the comprehensive Final Exam.
 50 points may come from homework/in-class-work.
The following cutoffs are guaranteed . Percentages are usually calculated out of 500 exam points; HW may be included, for a total possible 550 points, if it improves your % or your standing in the class:
        A: 90% , B: 80% , C: 70% , D: 60%

INCOMPLETE: The University Policy will be followed in awarding incomplete grades. An incomplete is not to be used as a substitute for a poor grade.
In general, the grade of "I" will be not be given unless ALL the following conditions are met:

  1. The student has completed all but a small portion of the required work.
  2. The student has scored at least 50% on the work completed.
  3. The student has a valid reason for not completing the course on time.
  4. The student agrees to make up the material in a short period of time and reaches a written agreement with the instructor which specifies the period of time allowed and the work to be made up.
  5. The student asks for the incomplete before the Final Exam or, if all work up to the Final Exam is completed and an emergency forces the student to miss the Final Exam, before grades are due, 48 hours after the final exam.

DISHONEST SCHOLASTIC WORK: Your work in this class is covered by the University's Code of Academic Integrity , and any violations of the code will be dealt with as prescribed in the Code.

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