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all information presented during lecture and laboratory sessions. Lecture
and Laboratory attendance are required. Laboratory sessions will usually
require the entire scheduled period. You will be responsible for cleaning
up before you leave lab. Therefore, do not expect to be out of lab before
the scheduled time. Attendance at quizzes and exams is required. If
you miss lecture or lab for any reason, you will need to inform me and
you are responsible for making up the missed work on your own time (you
must have me verify that you have made up missed lab work).Unexcused
absences will lower your grade. Excessive absences are grounds for automatic
failure.
Laboratory
attendance is required. In a laboratory course, there is simply
no substitute for "being there." Much of the benefit of the lab course
is derived from your active participation during the scheduled lab meetings.
You will learn more by working with your classmates doing the lab than
can be assessed by any quiz or exam. In fact, your active participation
in lab is so important that no quiz or exam scores could possibly be high
enough to compensate for missing the actual experience of being present
in the laboratory. Therefore, you must attend all of the labs to
pass the course.
You will need to read the
assigned text material and the appropriate lab material before you
come to lecture or lab. You will need your textbook and course supplement
with you during all lecture meetings and most labs. You will need your
lab manual and course supplement for all lab meetings. The lab room (AH
107) will be available during posted hours
so that you can review lab materials and complete lab assignments.
You
will want to spend about two hours per week working in AH
107 in addition to the scheduled lab sessions.
The course
has been structured to afford you every opportunity to develop your ability
to learn, to master the required material, and to demonstrate your success
in these endeavors. Students who choose to enroll in this course are seeking
rigorous pre-professional preparation. This course will provide the level
of preparation you require. Nevertheless, you need not feel intimidated
by the demanding career path you have selected. I am here to help you overcome
any difficulties you may have with the course material and to help you
do your best work.
Exams and Grading.
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Your grade will be determined
by your own achievement. There is no curve.
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Grading
scale: 90.0-100% = A, 80.0-89.9% = B, 70.0-79.9% = C, 60.0-69.9% = D, below
60.0% = F.
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An honor system is in effect
for all exams and quizzes. It is considered a violation of the CBU Code
of Conduct to receive or give assistance during an examination or quiz.
Quizzes and exams are returned, but students may not keep exam or quiz
questions.
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In this course, the use
of old quizzes or examinations is considered a violation of the CBU Code
of Conduct and is grounds for automatic failure.
Makeup
lecture exams, lab exams, or quizzes will only be available under extraordinary
circumstances.
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you miss a quiz or exam without prior arrangement or fail to notify me
within one hour of the scheduled class time to arrange a specific time
for a make up quiz or exam, you will not be eligible for a makeup quiz
or exam and you will receive a zero for the missed quiz or exam.
The Lecture Course:
Six lecture exams will be
given. Exams are 100 points each (a total of 600 points for the course).
Lecture quizzes may be given on short notice, if so, they will increase
the 600 point total to the lecture course and no makeups will be available
for quizzes missed due to unexcused absence. All
lecture exams are comprehensive. No exam may
be dropped.
Makeup exams will only be available under extraordinary
circumstances.
If
you miss an exam you must either have made prior arrangement for a makeup
exam or you must notify me within one hour of the scheduled exam time to
request and schedule a makeup exam, otherwise you will not be eligible
for a makeup exam and you will receive a zero for the missed exam. It is
YOUR responsibility to arrange a specific time to take a makeup exam. Ordinarily,
any makeup exam must be completed BEFORE the next class session. Ordinarily,
a student will be granted no more than one makeup exam for the course.
Lecture exams will cover
the topics indicated on the attached schedule unless specific changes are
announced in class. Each exam will cover material
from lecture, the course supplement, and the text. It is expected
that material studied in laboratory will also be incorporated into your
responses on lecture exams. Exams will consist of specific essay questions,
short answer, and objective questions. Exam questions may require well-labeled
diagrams and will always require detailed and precise responses employing
the specialized terminology introduced in the course.
Additional work sheets and
short writing assignments may be given in lecture and lab. Satisfactory
completion of these assignments will be required to pass the course but
the assignments may not receive a letter grade.
The
Laboratory Course:
Twelve lab quizzes will be
given. Each quiz will count 20 points. Your lowest quiz grade (of
quizzes you take) will be dropped. You may not drop a zero quiz
score received because of an unexcused absence. Thus, your eleven best
lab quizzes will total 220 points of the 420 point total for the lab course.
Lab quizzes will consist of practical and short answer questions on the
material covered during the previous lab session. This material may include
information from lecture, the course supplement, the lab manual, and the
text.
Lab quizzes will begin 2:00
p.m. If you are late without making prior arrangement, you may receive
a zero on that week's quiz. No absences from lab
are permitted. Any lab work missed
because of an excused
absence must be made up prior to the next week's lab. Makeups
for lab quizzes will only be available under extraordinary circumstances.
You must make prior arrangement or notify me within one hour of the scheduled
quiz time to be eligible for a makeup quiz.
The Lab Midterm Exam and
the Lab Final Exam will each count 100 points. The Lab
Midterm Exam covers all the lab work up to that point in the
semester. The Lab Final Exam covers
all the lab work following the Midterm Exam. Lab exams will be practical
exams covering structural details and their functions. It may be impossible
to make up a missed lab exam. You will also be evaluated on your cooperation
and efforts in lab and on the results of your dissections. Pairs or groups
of students will work together to prepare specimens.
Makeup
lab exams or quizzes will only be available under extraordinary circumstances.¶If
you miss a quiz or lab exam without prior arrangement or fail to notify
me within one hour of the scheduled lab time to arrange a specific time
for a make up quiz or exam, you will not be eligible for a makeup quiz
or exam and you will receive a zero for the missed quiz or exam.
Note the following requirements regarding
make up work:
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If you
request a makeup quiz and if you are given permission to take a make up
quiz, you must take the make up quiz before the next scheduled lab meeting.
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Ordinarily
you will also be required to complete the missed lab work before you are
considered eligible for a make up quiz.
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Ordinarily,
a student will be granted no more than one makeup quiz for the course.
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Ordinarily,
there will be no makeups for quizzes missed because of unexcused absence
or lateness (but you will be required to complete any missed lab work).
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The University
policy on absences will be enforced for lecture and lab.
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If you
need special consideration, please ask.
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