Syllabus

Dr. Paul Szauter (rhymes with "daughter")
phone: 207-812-8932 (cell)
email: pszauter@unm.edu
Office: Castetter 206B

Lecture: Tuesday & Thursday 12:30 - 1:45 pm Castetter 100 (see schedule).
Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 2:00 - 3:30 pm
Appointments are also available on Mondays and Fridays. Please email to set up an appointment.

Required Materials:

1. Biological Science, 4th edition, Freeman, 2010
2. Access code for MasteringBiology

You'll begin registration for the program at: www.masteringbiology.com. If you already have a Pearson account, you will use that login and password but you will need the specific access code for our text to get into the HOWE202FALL13 course. You will find reading quizzes and practice assignments in MasteringBiology.

Grading: The lecture grade (75% of your final grade) is determined by the total points scored:

• 2 out of 3 Lecture Exams (200 points total)
• 10 out of 12 Reading Quizzes (100 points total)
• Final exam (150 points)

The remaining 25% will be made up by your score in the discussion section.

202L Discussion Sections: Once each week, all students must attend a 75-minute discussion section, during which important concepts from the lectures will be studied, and in which some new material will be introduced. The assignments and scoring of assignments will be explained on the first day of 202L and the structure of 202L is coordinated by Cara Lea Council-Garcia, your TAs and myself. Please come to the discussion section prepared.

Withdrawal Policy: This course cannot be taken as an audit, nor as CR/NC. Withdrawals are the responsibility of the student, and not the instructor. The last day to withdraw from the course without permission is Friday, September 6th. If you withdraw by Friday, November 8th, you will receive a W. If you wish to drop the course, you must initiate the drop through the Registrar’s office and take care of any necessary paperwork. If you stop attending class, you will not automatically be dropped from the course, and you will receive a letter grade at the end of the semester. Withdrawal from the course is your responsibility.

Exams: Please check the schedule and your own schedule. You may reschedule any of the first 3 exams without any documented excuse as long as you do so by Friday, August 30. After that day, there will be no make-up exams without a documented medical emergency. Please plan your schedule around those exam dates. You can expect a mixed format of multiple choice, matching, fill-in-the-blank and short answer questions. Please note that exam questions will not only be simple repetition of lecture and text information. You will also be expected to be able to apply the material to questions not explicitly addressed in lecture.

E-mail lists: I may use your UNM e-mail address to send announcements and information to the entire class. Please check this address regularly. I will post lecture study guides, useful web links, exam keys and practice exams through this website. I will expect any correspondence to come through UNM e-mail.

Cara Lea Council-Garcia maintains the 202L website. This website will contain all information for the discussion section, including lecture homework assignments due in 202L.

Reading Quizzes: Reading quizzes will be accessed through MasteringBiology. Please read the entire assignment listed before you take the reading quiz. The quizzes consist of 10 multiple choice questions; each worth 1 pt. You will have one hour to complete the quiz from the time you begin. The quizzes are listed on the schedule and are due by 5:00 pm on the date listed. You have two attempts for each question although a second attempt will only be worth 0.5 pts.

The purpose of the reading quizzes is to aid you in understanding the lecture material before seeing it in class. Use the readings to get an idea of the material to be presented in lecture and to obtain a second explanation of the topics covered in lecture. I will give information in lecture that is not in the text. This makes attendance in lecture very important.

Class Conduct:

1. Electronic devices that are not being used for note taking may not be used during lectures or exams. Please silence your phones during class.
2. Lecture attendance is not taken, but the information given in class is the responsibility of each student. Class will begin promptly at the appointed time. Please do not be late.
3. If you absolutely must to come to class late or leave class early, please try to not disrupt the rest of the class. Leave or enter class by the door at the back of the lecture hall. If you are leaving early, try to sit near the door.
4. I will interrupt class to silence "chatty" students (this includes text messaging). If you need to carry on a conversation with someone, please leave the room.
5. Academic dishonesty will be strongly disciplined. While cooperative work on homework is encouraged, homework questions should be answered and worded by each of you individually. Anyone caught cheating on an exam will automatically receive a 0 on that exam. In addition, using the Internet as a direct source for homework questions is plagiarism. Students are expected be familiar with, and follow the principles laid out in, the Student Code of Conduct published in the Student Handbook, Pathfinder.

Special needs: If there is any student in this class with a disability, please inform me of your needs as soon as possible.