COURSE INFORMATION – MA 223 Spring 2007HOMEWORK AND QUIZZES: Homework will be collected daily. Late homework will notbe accepted. Only your instructor can excuse homework.There will be a weekly, online quiz and a weekly, in-class quiz. No make-up quizzes willbe given. Only the course coordinator can excuse an online quiz, and only your instructor canexcuse an in-class quiz.EXAMS There are two in-class midterm exams, one evening midterm exam and a final exam.The two in-class midterm exams are written and graded by your instructor, with partial creditbeing possible. The evening midterm exam is a course-wide, multiple-choice, machine-graded examwritten by the course coordinator. The final exam is a course-wide, 25-question, multiple-choice,machine-graded exam, also written by the course coordinator.The dates of the midterm exams are as follows. (Mark them on your calendar.)EXAM 1: in class exam on February 5.EXAM 2: evening exam in the Elliott Hall of Music on March 5 at 8:30 p.m.EXAM 3: in class exam on April 11.If you have a class or exam conflict with Exam 2 or the Final, you should contact your instructorbefore the exam. You will be allowed to take an alternate exam without any penalty.If you miss any exam, contact your instructor immediately to explain your absence. Youshould be prepared to present documentation about your absence to your instructor. Withoutdocumentation, you may be allowed to take an alternate exam with a penalty. Only your instructorcan give you permission to take a makeup exam.GRADES: There is a total of 550 points in the course. Homework and quizzes combined count100 points. Each of the three mid-term exams counts 100 points, and the final exam counts 150points. Since the only assessments common to all students and graded identically for all studentsare the two, course-wide exams (Exam 2 and the Final Exam), a normalization process based onthem is used to determine the number of each letter grade given in a section. The Departmentdecides on an A–range, B–range, C–range, etc., for the combined two exams. Each instructor thengives the same number of A’s, B’s, C’s, etc., that his section earned on the combined exams. Theassignment of the letter grades is based on students’ total points (a number between 0 and 550).For example, if in a particular section there are 8 A’s, 10 B’s, etc., on the two combined exams,the 8 students with the highest total points receive an A, the next 10 a B, and so on.ACADEMIC ADJUSTMENTS: Students who have been certified by the Office of the Dean ofStudents-Adaptive Programs as eligible for academic adjustments should go to MATH 242 witha copy of their certification letter and request an Information Sheet for this semester, that explainshow to proceed this semester to get these adjustments made in Mathematics courses. It is not thesame as last semester. This should be done during the first week of classes. Only studentswho have been certified by the ODOS-Adaptive Programs and who have requested ODOS to sendtheir certification letter to their instructor are eligible for academic adjustments. Students whoare currently undergoing an evaluation process to determine whether they are eligible for academicadjustments, are encouraged to find out now what procedures they will have to follow when theyare certified, by requesting the above mentioned Information Sheet from MATH 242. Large printversions of the Information Sheet are available in MATH 242 upon request.OFFICE HOURS: All instructors have office hours in MATH 205, the Math Help Room. In theHelp Room, in addition to instructors from your course, instructors from all courses can also helpyou. After the first week of classes, the office hour schedule is posted on each instructor’s door andon the course web page. You are strongly urged to go to office hours if you have questions. It isthe best way to get individual help.COURSE INFORMATION – MA 223 Spring 2007SECTION CHANGES AND DROPS: There are no section changes allowed during the firstweek of classes. After that, until the end of the 9th week of the semester, see the instructor of thesection you want to enter. The schedule of classes can be found on the Mathematics Departmentweb page or at the main desk in MATH 835. If you want to drop a course during the first nineweeks of the semester, your instructor can sign your drop form. If your instructor is not available,go to MATH 835. No section changes or drops are allowed after the first nine weeks ofthe semester.LAST ADD DATE: The last day you can add this course is Friday, February 9. Students addingat this time must complete alternate exam 1 by Thursday, February 15. Students are expected tokeep up with the current material while studying for alternate exam 1.COURSE WEB PAGE: