Lectures: TR 7:15-8:30pm in ENGR 107
Instructor: Jonathan
Poritz
Text: Calculus and Its Applications, Eighth Edition, by
Marvin L. Bittinger
Procedure: This is an intensive course, covering a quite large amount of material in only one semester. Challenging concepts and techniques will be introduced in class, but comprehension in class is only part of success in this course: long experience shows that doing [many] problems is the only way to master this material. There will thus be fairly extensive weekly homework sets, totalling roughly twelve in number. The highest ten scores will count towards your final grade.
There will also be one quiz and three hour exams, on dates (and covering material) to be announced during the term, with at least a week advanced notice. There will be a comprehensive final exam on Tuesday, December 12th, from 7:15 to 9:45pm. If you have a reasonable problem with (completing, in a timely manner) some homework set, quiz, or midterm, please discuss it with me and we can come to some accommodation. Please discuss it with me before the assignment in question -- without prior arrangement, missed assignments and tests will be given an automatic zero.
By UCCS policy, e-mail is a recognized, official form of communication between students and faculty. Therefore you can keep me apprised of issues with your assignments and so on by e-mail, and I will do likewise -- please check your e-mail at least every other day; I check mine several times every day (unless prevented from doing so). Also, the official reference for class assignments and dates and such matters is the course web page, which is to be found at www.poritz.net/jonathan/uccs/index.html (at the moment).
| Grades: will be computed as follows: Algebra Quiz: | 5% |
| Homework: | 17% |
| 3 Tests: | 17% (each) |
| Final Exam: | 27% |
Office hours: I will generally be in ENGR 289 for an hour after our class time. If you want to talk to me privately and/or cannot make those times, please mention it to me in class or by e-mail, and we can find another time. Please feel free to contact me for help also by e-mail at jonathan.poritz@gmail.com, to which I will try to respond quite quickly (certainly within the day); be aware, however, that it is hard to do complex mathematics by e-mail, so if the issue you raise in an e-mail is too hard for me to answer in that form, it may well be better if we meet before the next class, or even talk on the telephone (in which case, include in your e-mail a number where I can reach you). In serious emergencies, you can fairly easily track me down by telephone, also.
Calculators: UCCS policy for this course does not allow graphing calculators on the exams. You may use limited `scientific' calculators, but I will have to enforce the general policy.