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.
Who should take this class? (Prerequisites): I will assume that you have had, and remember, the equivalent of MA 121 Calculus 1 for Life and Social Sciences. This can be replaced by any "standard" Calculus 1 class that includes the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. We will spend the first few lectures reviewing, but this is NOT a replacement for Calculus 1.
Text: Calculus for Business, Economics, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences, 12 th edition and Additional Calculus Topics Supplement, by Barnett, Ziegler, Byleen.
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 and that you regularly check this email acocunt.
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.
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.
There are two goals for this course. The first is to learn the techniques involved in applying and expanding your Calculus knowledge.
The second, and more important, goal is to provide you with a new and quantitative way of investigating the physical world. To be successful, you must train yourself to "see" Calculus in the world around you and to use that vision to give a new way of understanding and predicting behavior.