Calculus, Second Edition by Jon Rogawski.

There will be three in class exams and one cumulative final exam.

• Homework will be collected every day at the beginning of class. The course is pretty compressed for time, but sometimes I'll have time to go over a problem after you turn in the assignment.


• All homework assignments will be posted on the course assignment's web page.


• Late homework is rarely accepted, and never without prior arrangement with the instructor. Starting assignments early will assure you have at least some work to submit for grading.


• Homework is to be written neatly using one side of 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper. Do not use paper from a spiral notebook unless you can tear off the ragged edge. All papers are to be stapled.


• Use English. If you can't read your solutions aloud as fluently as if you were reading your textbook, try using nouns and verbs in your write ups! Give references for theorems or propositions you use from the text and class.

The course grade will be based upon the scores on the midterm exam, homework, and the final exam as follows:

On Homework: Students are encouraged to work together to do homework problems. What is important is a student's eventual understanding of homework problems, and not how that is achieved. The honor principle applies to homework in the following way. What a student turns in as a homework solution is to be his or her own understanding of how to do the problem. Students must state what sources they have consulted, with whom they have collaborated, and from whom they have received help. Students are discouraged from using solutions to problems that may be posted on the web, and as just stated, must reference them if they use them. The solutions you submit must be written by you alone. Any copying (electronic or otherwise) of another person's solutions, in whole or in part, is not permitted.

Moreover, if in working with someone they have provided you with an important idea or approach, they should be explicitly given credit in your writeup. Hints I give in office hours need not be cited. Note: It is not sufficient to annotate your paper with a phrase like ``I worked with Joe on all the problems.'' Individual ideas are to be credited at each instance; they represent intellectual property.

On Exams: Students may not receive assistance of any kind from any source (living, published, electronic, etc), except the professor, and may not give assistance to anyone. Matters of clarification are to be left to the professor.

Quantitative Reasoning Learnning Goals:

• Students will demonstrate college-level knowledge of a body of mathematical and/or statistical techniques suitable for modeling and analyzing real world questions/situations, and will gain some experience in such modeling, including experience in building, describing, testing, analyzing, and making predictions from such models.
• Students will formulate questions and propositions for quantitative analysis, translate the question into a form appropriate for the chosen quantitative model, and interpret and evaluate the results of the model in ways meaningful to the problem at hand. Students will demonstrate the ability to assess the validity and limitations of quantitative models and an understanding of the role of the assumptions made in the construction of these models.

Natural Science and Mathematics Learning Goals:

• Students will demonstrate knowledge of scientific and/or mathematical content and principles in a disciplinary field.
• Students will develop skills that enhance their ability to think critically about scientific, technological, and/or mathematical issues.

Students with special needs who will be taking this course and may need disability-related classroom accommodations are encouraged to make an appointment to see their instructor as soon as possible, certainly within the first two weeks of the course.

Nathan C. Ryan
Email: nathanDOTryanATbucknellDOTedu

Last updated 1-12-12