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7.014 Introductory Biology Spring, 2005 This handout includes: • Course staff listing • Course Policies • Recitation Section Schedule • Syllabus • Reading List Web Site: http://web.mit.edu/7.01x/7.014/ Course Staff: Faculty: Graham Walker 68-633 253-6716 [email protected] Eric Klopfer 10-337 253-2025 [email protected] Instructor: Julia Khodor 68-139 324-0055 [email protected] Biology Student Office: Rachel McPherson 68-120 253-4718 [email protected] Teaching Assistants: Jerry Chen [email protected] Lily Trajman [email protected] Alicia Zhou [email protected] Tutors: N. Ijeoma Ezeofor [email protected] Pete Kruskall [email protected] Hanna Kuznetsov [email protected] Amanda Lanza [email protected] Course Policies: Student Background. There are no formal pre-requisites for this course, but familiarity with high school biology and chemistry (especially familiarity with the fundamental aspects of chemical structure) is expected. Lectures. Regular attendance is expected, MWF noon in 54-100. Recitation Sections. Regular weekly attendance is expected. On average, each section meets twice per week for 50 minutes. The list of recitation sections is on page 4. Recitation sections start Wednesday, February 8. Please go to the recitation section assigned to you by the registrar. If that recitation does not fit in your schedule, email [email protected] to change to another section. Include your current section and the section you hope to attend. Changes can be made through Friday, February 24. If sections fill up, we will keep a waiting list for people who want to switch into these sections. Tutors. Tutors are available for all students who wish extra help either on a one-time or a regular basis. The tutoring services are offered free of charge to all enrolled in 7.014. Feel free to contact the tutors by e-mail to arrange meetings; please be sure to notify the tutors in advance if you will be unable to make a pre-arranged meeting. Text Book and Course Reader. Biology, 7th edition by Campbell and Reece. Available at the MIT Coop. A number of copies is also on reserve at the library. Note on using your time and resources. As you study in this course, your first source should be section and problem set problems and lecture notes. The textbook serves as a reference and a good source for additional information and quality illustrations. MIT Biology Hypertext: Another good source of course related materials can be found on the 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 Unit questions on the website. We will also post lecture questions before each lecture. You are encouraged to consider how the material presented throughout the unit relates to the unit questions, and how the material presented in a given lecture relates to the daily questions. We will 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 minute assessment question of the day. As the name suggests, it should take you about a minute to complete your answer. Please answer by 6am the day following lecture. We will use your answers to clarify 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 the course 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 by 11:45 AM on the due date. Slide your solutions into the appropriate TA's box. ALL LATE PROBLEM SETS WILL BE SCORED AS A ZERO3 Handouts. Lecture handouts are available from the course web site. Please print out and bring any handouts you need to lecture and section. Academic Honesty. Since problem sets will be graded, copying of problem set answers constitutes cheating and is forbidden. While general discussions and collaboration on the problem sets is appropriate, detailed discussion of specific solutions or sharing of answers is a violation of the trust placed in all students in the class, each of whom is entrusted with producing a set of answers on his/her own. Students who copy problem sets or allow their answers 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 or altering a quiz prior to a request for a regrade, may be assigned an F for the course or referred to the MIT Committee on Discipline. Quizzes. There will be three quizzes: given during the term from 12:05 PM to 12:55 PM and a comprehensive final (worth 2 quizzes), given during finals week. Each of the term quizzes will take place in Walker Gym, 50-340 on the dates listed in the syllabus. The lowest letter grade score of the five (the 3 quizzes plus the final worth 2 quizzes) will be dropped when calculating your overall grade. Because we drop the lowest score, there will be no make-up quizzes and no conflict quizzes given for any reason. If you miss a term quiz, it will be the score that is dropped. The Final Exam will be a 3-hour, cumulative exam, covering the entirety of the course. The score on the final exam will be halved and each halve will count as a quiz score when calculating your grade. The final represents two of the five quiz scores and must be taken otherwise you would lose 20% of your grade. If your score on the final is your lowest grade then one of the halves will be dropped. The date, time, and location of the final will be announced as soon as this information is available. A conflict final exam may be scheduled by the registrar for students with legitimate exam conflicts. Quiz Review Sessions will be held prior to each quiz – the dates, locations and times of the reviews are listed on the course website. Any quizzes, exams, or problem sets that are not picked up by the end of the term will be disposed of. Grades. Your overall course grade will depend on the following components: Component Weight Note 6 of 7 Graded Problem Sets 20% Lowest of 7 PS scores dropped 4 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


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