7.014 Introductory BiologySpring, 2005This handout includes:• Course staff listing• Course Policies• Recitation Section Schedule• Syllabus• Reading ListWeb Site: http://web.mit.edu/7.01x/7.014/Course Staff:Faculty:Penny Chisholm 48-427 253-1771 [email protected] Walker 68-633 253-6716 [email protected]:Julia Khodor 68-139 324-0055 [email protected] Student Office:Kathleen Long 68-120 253-4718 [email protected] Assistants:Cynthia (Cindy) Barber E18-605 452-2726 [email protected] Kosinski-Collins 68-139 253-4956 [email protected] Makhni IBE 494-8677 [email protected] Thompson 48-216-29 253-4124 [email protected]:Angelin Baskaran angelin at mit.eduChris Hemond chemond at mit.eduMandana Sassafar [email protected] Tajonar atajonar at mit.edu2Course Policies:Student Background. There are no formal pre-requisites for this course, but familiarity withhigh school biology and chemistry (especially familiarity with the fundamental aspects ofchemical structure) is expected.Lectures. Regular attendance is expected, MWF noon in 54-100.Recitation Sections. Regular weekly attendance is expected. On average, each section meetstwice per week for 50 minutes.Recitation sections start Wednesday, February 2.Please go to the recitation section assigned to you by the registrar. If that recitation does not fityour schedule, send email to [email protected]. Include your current sectioninformation and the section you hope to attend. Please note that section enrollment is limited to18 and not all requests can be accommodated. Attend your assigned section until the change isconfirmed by email. Changes in recitation sections will be allowed only until Friday, February18th.Tutors. Tutors are available for all students who wish extra help either on a one-time or aregular basis. The tutoring services are offered free of charge to all enrolled in 7.014. Feel freeto contact the tutors by e-mail to arrange meetings; please be sure to notify the tutors in advanceif you will be unable to make a pre-arranged meeting.Text Book and Course Reader. Biological Science, by Scott Freeman. Available at the MITCoop.MIT Biology Hypertext: Another good source of course related materials can be found onthe web at http://web.mit.edu/esgbio/www/. This is definitely worth a visit.Unit and Lecture Questions. At the start of each unit of the course we will post Unitquestions on the website. We will also post lecture questions before each lecture. You areencouraged to consider how the material presented throughout the unit relates to the unitquestions, and how the material presented in a given lecture relates to the daily questions. Wewill post our answers to these questions as soon as it is appropriate.1 minute assessment. After each lecture please check the course website for a 1 minuteassessment question of the day. You must reply to at least 30 (out of 36) of these throughout theterm to receive a grade in the class. As the name suggests, it should take you about a minute tocomplete your answer. Please answer by 2pm the day of the lecture. We will use your answers toclarify any confusing points, and to otherwise help you with the class material.Problem Sets. Problem sets will be available from the course web site on the days listed in thecourse syllabus. The solutions to the problem sets will be posted after the problem set due date.Completed problem sets must be turned in to the cart outside room 68-120 by11:45 AM on the due date. Slide your solutions into the appropriate TA's box.ALL LATE PROBLEM SETS WILL BE SCORED AS A ZERO3Handouts. Lecture handouts are available from the course web site.Academic Honesty. Since problem sets will be graded, copying of problem set answersconstitutes cheating and is forbidden. While general discussions and collaboration on theproblem sets is appropriate, detailed discussion of specific solutions or sharing of answers is aviolation of the trust placed in all students in the class, each of whom is entrusted withproducing a set of answers on his/her own. Students who copy problem sets or allow theiranswers to be copied may be assigned a 0 for all the Problem Sets (20% of the grade).Any student that commits an act of academic dishonesty regarding a quiz, such as copying oraltering a quiz prior to a request for a regrade, may be assigned an F for the course.Quizzes. There will be three quizzes: given during the term from 12:05 PM to 12:55 PM and acomprehensive final (worth 2 quizzes), given during finals week. Each of the term quizzes willtake place in Walker Gym, 50-340 on the dates listed in the syllabus. The lowest letter gradescore of the five (the 3 quizzes plus the final worth 2 quizzes) will be dropped when calculatingyour overall grade. Quiz II is on the Friday before Spring Break. Please do not book yourtravel to conflict with the exam. Because we drop the lowest score, there will be no make-upquizzes and no conflict quizzes given for any reason. If you miss a term quiz, it will be thescore that is dropped.The Final Exam will be a 3-hour, cumulative exam, covering the entirety of the course. Thescore on the final exam will be halved and each halve will count as a quiz score whencalculating your grade. The final represents two of the five quiz scores and must be takenotherwise you would lose 20% of your grade. If your score on the final is your lowest gradethen one of the halves will be dropped. The date, time, and location of the final will beannounced as soon as this information is available. A conflict final exam may be scheduled bythe registrar for students with legitimate exam conflicts.Quiz Review Sessions will be held prior to each quiz – the dates, locations and times of thereviews will be announced during the term.Any quizzes, exams, or problem sets that are not picked up by the end of the term will bedisposed of.Grades. You must reply to at least 30 of the 36 1 minute assessment questions that will beposted after each lecture in order to receive a grade.Your overall course grade will depend on the following components:Component Weight Note6 of 7 Graded Problem Sets 20% Lowest of 7 PS scores dropped4 of 5 quiz scores* 80% Lowest of five scores dropped*The five quiz scores are derived from the 3 hourly quizzes taken during term plus the 2 scores represented by theFinal Exam (the score on the final will be halved- each half counts as one quiz).Regrades of Quizzes. If you find an addition
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