Syllabus
| Instructor: Ramin Naimi Office: Fowler 317 Office Hours: posted at faculty.oxy.edu/rnaimi |
Phone: (323) 259-2550 Fax: (323) 259-2704 Email: rnaimi at oxydotedu |
Class Meetings: 10:00-11:30, Fowler 307.
Goals: The main goals of this class are to evaluate your mathematical writing for the Junior Writing Requirement (which is a College requirement for graduation), and to help you review and prepare for the Comps Exam, which is also required for graduation and will be given later this semester. If you fail the comps exam, you will have a chance to take it again in spring 2012. In this cousre you will also need to learn LaTeX, a typesetting computer language for perparing technical manuscripts. Although you are not required to, I strongly encourage you to start thinking about and discussing with math faculty what topic you'd like to choose for your comps project (which you will work on next fall but can start now and continue during summer). I'd be happy to help you get started if you'd like.
Grading: Your grade will be based 1/3 on your comps exam score, 1/3 on your "junior writing score", and 1/3 on your "LaTeX score" plus "other assignments" that I may give. I will give three in-class writing tests and use your highest of the three scores as your "junior writing score" (1/3 of your grade) and also for determining whether or not you pass the junior writing requirement. Your "LaTeX score" will be determined through in-class exams or homework assignments or both. Note that passing this course, passing the junior writing requirement, and passing the comps exam are "independent" of each other: you may pass or fail any subset of the three. Without passing all three you cannot graduate. The component "other assignments" mentioned above may consist of various things such as writing up solutions to problems, giving presentations in class, attending seminars, attendance in class, and possibly other things.
Attendance: You are responsible for everything that goes on in every class meeting, such as announcements, handouts, material taught, etc. This means if you miss a class even for a valid reason, it is your responsibility to contact me and find out what you missed. I may or may not decide to count attendance as part of your grade; if I do, I will let you know in advance; it will count as a small part of the "other assignments" score mentioned above.
E-mail: When necessary, I will make announcements via the class mailing list, instead of in the classroom. You are expected to check your email at least once a day. You are encouraged to use our class email list, math300-L@oxy.edu, to send messages to everyone in the class.
Academic Honesty: I feel strongly about protecting honest and hard-working students against unfair and dishonest actions sometimes committed by a few. I don't give warnings; I refer all suspicious cases to the Judicial Examiner without hesitation.
Students with learning disability: Please see me and the CAE to arrange for any special needs.