Academic Conduct: Your conduct in this course, as with all CAS courses, is governed by the CAS Academic Conduct Code. Copies of the code are available from the CAS Dean's office (CAS 105) or as html.. Specifics rules for specific assignments will be discussed in lecture.
The "Golden Rule" of academic conduct is to "Give Credit Where Credit is Due". That is, if you use or consult a source, including a book, journal, web page or person, then cite that source (i.e., give sufficient information so that someone reading your work could determined what information you used and be able to find the source). The details of the form necessary in citation vary greatly from subject to subject, but the basic rule is universal..
If you have any doubt about any aspect of proper citation or academic conduct, ask.
Text:Mathematics with Applications, by Lial, Hungerford, Holcomb, 9th Edition.
We will cover a majority of the text.
Technology: Information for the course will be presented through the course home page and announcements will be sent out to the official e-mailing list kept by the registrar. You are responsible for making sure that email sent to the email address kept by the registrar reaches you.
Grades: Your grades in the course will be determined by the following:
Notes:
Miscellaneous:
Study groups: I encourage you to form study groups and to spend some (not all) of your study time with your group. Make absolutely sure that you abide by the requirements of the Academic Conduct Code and the rules for each assignment. In particular, the names of everyone who contributed to your work should appear on any work handed in.
Exams: Exams will be long and hard. The goal of an exam is to find out what you know, so asking questions that are so easy that you can get 60 percent of them perfect and still fail is not useful. Also, the exams will include problems which test if you can apply what you have learned in new situations. You can practice this by doing many, many problems.
Final comment: Too many students consider their courses hoops that they must jump through in order to reach a degree. This philosophy implies that you only need to keep the material in your head until the final. This is just wrong.
The point of taking a course is to change the way you think. Part of this is to master certain facts and skills used to solve problems and answer questions. It is also mastering the ability to decide when to use these new skills. As such, when you look at a problem you should see it in a new way. This implies a change in your view of the world--a change in how the cells in your brain are wired and this change should be permanent. University rules do not allow me to hunt you down several years form now to give you the "final" (too bad), but I will do everything I can to make sure that these permanent changes occur.