Math 0220

Student Guidelines and Syllabus

About the course

This is the first in a sequence of three calculus courses for science and engineering students. The goal is to prepare you to make use of calculus as a practical problem-solving tool.

Text

The text for this course is James Stewart, Essential Calculus, Early Transcendentals.

Labs

One session each week will meet in the Calculus/Engineering Computer Lab in the Gardner Steel Conference Center (GSCC 126). In the lab, you will work individually on problem solving skills, using computer generated problems. Your TA will be available to help if you get stuck, but your are expected to solve all problems yourself.

You will be able to work on your lab problems from any computer with an Internet connection and a web browser, but you should do the most of the work in your scheduled lab sessions.

Recitations

Once a week you will meet with your TA in a classroom (without computers) to go over problems related to the material covered the previous week.

Homework

You will be provided a list of practice problems from the textbook. You are expected to solve these problems. Exam and quiz problems will often be modeled on these problems.

Your instructor may assign some problems to hand in for grading. Even if your instructor does not collect written homework, you will be expected to be able to solve all the practice problems.

Grades

Your course grade will be determined as follows: Some sections may deviate slightly from this recipe. Any deviations will be announced by your instructor at the beginning of the term.

Final Exam Policy

All day sections will take a departmental final exam at a time and place to be scheduled by the registrar. Evening sections will meet through final exam week, and the final exam will be given during the last one or two scheduled class periods.

Final Grade Policy

Your final grade should not exceed your final exam grade by more than one letter grade.

Exam Dates

See the class schedule for the dates of the two midterm exams. The date, time and room of the final exam will be announced by your instructor.

Materials

In addition to the textbook, you will need at least a scientific calculator. Any calculator with logarithms, exponentials, and trigonometric functions will do. Programmability is desirable but not essential. A graphing calculator, such as the TI83 or TI86, is better still.

Computer Accounts

As a University of Pittsburgh student, you should already have a Pitt computer account. You will need to know your username and password to access the computer resources in the lab.

Getting Help

Tutoring

Walk in tutoring is available in the Calculus/Engineering Lab and in the Math Assistance Center (MAC) on the third floor of Thackeray Hall. Tutoring hours will be posted outside the lab and the MAC, as well as on the web at http://calculus.math.pitt.edu.

You should go the Calculus/Engineering Lab for help with computer work, and to the MAC for assistance with pencil and paper work.

Office Hours

Your instructor will announce his office hours.

Disability Resource Services

If you have a disability for which you are or may be requesting an accommodation, you are encouraged to contact both your instructor and the Office of Disability Resources and Services, 216 William Pitt Union (412) 624-7890 as early as possible in the term.

Academic Integrity

Cheating/plagiarism will not be tolerated. Students suspected of violating the University of Pittsburgh Policy on Academic Integrity will incur a minimum sanction of a zero score for the quiz, exam or paper in question. Additional sanctions may be imposed, depending on the severity of the infraction.

On homework, you may work with other students or use library resources, but each student must write up his or her solutions independently. Copying solutions from other students will be considered cheating, and handled accordingly.