Course schedule and written homework assignments: http://math.utexas.edu/users/henrys/m408k-cns_schedule.html
Quest: Online homework and grades: https://quest.cns.utexas.edu/student/
Unique numbers: 57330, 57335, 57340
Lecturer: Dr Henry Segerman
- Email: henrys(at)math(dot)utexas(dot)edu (remove spam defence) (preferred method of contact)
- Office Phone: (512) 471-8143
- Office: RLM 10.140
- Office hours: M 10:30 - 12 noon, Th 5 - 6:30pm.
Teaching Assistant: Mark Rothlisberger
- Email: mrothlisberger(at)math(dot)utexas(dot)edu (remove spam defence)
- Office Phone: (512) 475-9141
- Office: RLM 10.106
- Office hours: Tu 2 - 3:30pm, W 1:30 - 3pm.
Website: http://math.utexas.edu/users/henrys/m408k-cns.html
This course consists of three lectures and two discussion sessions per week. The lectures are given by the instructor and are attended by all students enrolled in sections with any of the three unique numbers above. The discussion sessions are led by a graduate Teaching Assistant. New material will be covered in each lecture, and during your discussion sessions you will have the opportunity to further your understanding of that material. You are expected to attend all five hours per week. Your unique number determines which of the three discussion sections is yours, as is indicated in the table below.
Meeting place and time:
- Lectures: GSB 2.126, TTH 3:30 - 5 pm.
- Discussion, 57330: RLM 6.114, MW 8 - 9 am.
- Discussion, 57335: RLM 6.118, MW 3 - 4 pm.
- Discussion, 57340: RLM 5.114, MW 4 - 5 pm.
Text: Calculus by Stewart, Sixth Edition.
Prerequisite: ALEKS score of 70%. This course is restricted to students in the College of Natural Sciences.
Course Objectives: Successful students will leave this course understanding the basic concepts and having mastered the computational skills of differential calculus. The concepts covered will include limits, continuity, derivatives, maxima and minima, and trigonometric, logarithmic and exponential functions.
Grades: This course will assign letter grades only, and will not use the plus/minus grading system. Your grade will be based on homeworks, quizzes and exams in the following manner:
Homework: (10% of your grade)
- Paper homework: (5% of your grade) You will have assignments due each Monday. A few of the questions from each assignment will be graded. These assignments will usually come from the textbook and are listed on the schedule page; assignments from all sections covered during each week's lectures will be due the following Monday at the beginning of your discussion session. In order to receive credit for an assignment, it must be turned in during the discussion session, you must show all of your work, the homework paper must be stapled with no ragged edges (such as those on paper torn from a spiral notebook), and your exercises must be written neatly, in order and well labelled.
- Online homework: (5% of your grade) Online homework will be assigned regularly via the Web using the UT Homework Service, Quest, and will be due on Sunday at 10pm; all answers and grades will be returned via the Web also using Quest. There will be approximately 15 assignments, and your highest 12 scores will be counted toward your grade. See http://cns.utexas.edu/quest/support/student/ for instructions on signing up for and using Quest.
No late homework of either variety will be accepted for any reason.
Quizzes: (10% of your grade) There will be weekly quizzes given during your Wednesday discussion sessions. These quizzes will consist of questions from material similar to that covered in lecture and/or assigned as homework. Only the highest 8 quiz scores (out of at approximately 10) will be counted toward your grade. This will allow for the rare legitimate absence; do not squander this allowance. You must be in the discussion session to take the quiz, and no makeup quizzes will be given for any reason.
Exams: (80% of your grade) There will be three evening midterms, each covering approximately a third of the material, and a comprehensive final.
All four of the exams will be 75 minutes long and each will comprise 20% of your total grade.
Some of the questions on each exam will be multiple choice, like problems on the QUEST homework system, and some will require that you show your work,
like problems on the homework or quizzes. These exams are given in the evening in a room different from the lecture hall.
You should carefully examine the exam dates below, since being available for these exams is a requirement for this course.
Midterm 1: Tuesday Sept 22nd, 7 - 8:15 pm, WEL 2.246
Midterm 2: Tuesday Oct 27th, 7 - 8:15 pm WEL 2.246
Midterm 3: Tuesday Dec 1st, 7 - 8:15 pm WEL 2.246
Final: Thursday Dec 10th 9 - 10:15 am Location UTC 4.102 and UTC 4.104
Makeup exams are given only at the discretion of your instructor, and only for serious reasons such as:
- having a regular class scheduled during the evening exam,
- serious illness, or
- an emergency.
In order to have any hope of being allowed to take a makeup exam, you must contact the instructor via email before the exam (if physically possible), and have documentation indicating your inability to take the exam at the scheduled time. As examples, family members buying you airline tickets for travel on the day of an exam is not an appropriate reason to miss an exam, and lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency.
An approved makeup exam may be taken only on the following days:
Midterm 1 makeup: Friday Sept 25th, 3:30 - 4:45 pm, Location BUR 108
Midterm 2 makeup: Friday Oct 30th, 3:30 - 4:45 pm Location BUR 108
Midterm 3 makeup: Friday Dec 4th 3:30 - 4:45 pm Location BUR 108
Final makeup: Friday Dec 11th 7 - 8:15 pm Location RLM 4.102
Students with Disabilities: The University of Austin provides upon request appropriate academic accommodations for qualified students with disabilities. For more information, contact the Office of the Dean of Students at 471- 6259, 471-6441 TTY.
Deadlines for Dropping a Course: If you drop a class on or before September 11, the class will not show up on your transcripts. If you drop a class after that date, the course will show up on the transcript with a "Q" grade. After September 23, your Dean must approve drops. After October 21, it is quite difficult to get approval to drop a course, and there may be an academic penalty.
Some general information:
- Take advantage of office hours! Seek out help before problems get too large to tackle. You will find that I have a lot of patience with people who are genuinely interested in learning, and decreasingly less for those who regularly skip class/homework/etc. Don't hesistate to ask me, the TA or others in the class if you have questions or are having trouble. We can also schedule appointments outside of office hours as needed.
- Do not take an exam when you are ill, a subpar performance will likely affect your grade. Do not take an exam while under the influence of medication that could affect your concentration or ability to think clearly. If you become ill during an exam, inform your teacher about the nature of the problem then go straight to a doctor or the health center. Any claim made after the end of an exam that illness or other factors affected performance on the exam will be discounted.
- Drop-in tutoring (free) and private tutoring (everyone gets at least 5 hours free, many students qualify for 10) for M408K are available at the UT Learning Center. It also offers a number of refresher mini-courses in early September that may be useful.
