Syllabus for M CC 130 – Section 01
M
CC 130,
Math in the Social Sciences, Summer 2003
Prerequisite: Satisfactory performance
on Colorado State Mathematics Placement Examination-ENFORCED
Textbooks: 1) Peter Tannenbaum & Robert Arnold, Excursions in Modern Mathematics, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall
2) Worksheet packet
Calculator: a basic one
Website:
Contact Information:
Stefan Cruceanu, Office: Weber 13, Tel:
1-2594, e-mail: cruceanu@math.colostate.edu
Class Dates/Time/Location:
May 19th – June 13th, MTWRF,
9:50 AM – 1:30 PM, the 1st part of each class (the teaching one)
will be hold in GLOVER 130, the second part of each class will be in E204,
E205.
Office Hours:
MTWRF 9:00 – 9:50 AM, or by appointment.
Course
Content:
Social
Choice: Mathematics of Voting,
Weighted Voting Systems, Fair Division, Apportionment
Management
Science: Euler Circuits, Traveling
Salesman Problems, Networks
Statistics: Statistics, Probability, Expected Value (not in the
required text book)
Miscellaneous: Spiral Growth in Nature, Fractal Geometry
Grading
Criteria:
Worksheets......................................... 30%
Final Exam............................................ 20%
Homework............................................ 10%
Exam I ............................................... 10%
Exam II .............................................. 10%
Exam III ............................................... 10%
Quizzes .............................................. 10%
Grading Scale:
90%....................................... A
80%....................................... B
70%....................................... C
60%....................................... D
below 60%............................ F
Examinations:
There will be three mid
exams (Fridays in the class, May 23rd, May 30th and June
6th: 9:50-10:50am). You are expected to attend these exams on the
specific dates. The final exam for this course will be given on Friday, June 13th,
10:00am-11:50am. The room for all the exams will be the same as the room for
the lectures: GLOVER 130. The exams will test any or all of the material listed
on the course schedule, including the material introduced through the worksheet
pocket. The only excused absences from these exams are official university
approved absences. If you have an unavoidable conflict with a mid exam or
final, you must speak with the instructor, and then, if he approves, you must
submit a written explanation (email is preferred) of your conflict to the
course coordinator at least two weeks prior to the exam. Include your phone
number and email address in your message. The final exam will be comprehensive,
with slight emphasis on material after Exam III. All the exams are
closed note, closed book, calculator permitted.
Worksheets:
The majority of them will be
done in the lab as a group work; only a few of them will be assigned as
homework. The section leader will grade all the worksheets; he also determines
if a particular worksheet is individual work or group work. At the end of each
lab, every group will submit the worksheets; only the students who attended
that lab until the end will receive the grades for the worksheets; the students
who did not attended that lab until the end will receive 0 points for each
worksheet worked in that lab.
Homework:
Homework will be assigned daily (except for a few
exceptions); they will be collected next day after they are assigned. To be “accepted”,
homework must meet the following criteria:
·
stapled;
·
easy
to read;
·
all
problems attempted;
·
all
work shown.
Only
homework that is accepted will be graded. From each homework, only a
random number of problems will be graded (the instructor will decide which of
them will be graded). The assignments will be returned after 1 - 2 lectures.
Important
Note: There will be no late homework accepted.
Pop quizzes:
During any lecture, I (the
instructor) can give a pop quiz covering the material just taught in the
previous minutes. Your name on the page will be worth at least a half of the
quiz. NO MAKEUPS. The idea of these quizzes is to see if you attend the
class and if you are following the lecture.
Academic
Integrity:
The University Policy on Academic Integrity, as
published the current CSU General Catalog. Possessing reference information
in any form that could be helpful on an exam while taking the exam,
misrepresenting someone else's work as your own, and misrepresenting your work
as someone else's on exams or in lab are all examples of cheating. Students judged to have engaged in cheating
might be assigned a reduced or failing grade for the course and/or referred to
the Office of Judicial Affairs for additional disciplinary action.
|
Date |
Event |
|
5/19/2003 |
Classes
begin for 4- and 12- week terms |
|
5/21/2003 |
Last
day to register for 1st 4-week term |
|
5/23/2003 |
Test
1 |
|
5/30/2003 |
Test
2 |
|
6/06/2003 |
Test
3 |
|
6/13/2003 |
Final
Exam, Friday, 10:00 - 11:50 AM |
For
class schedule and for all other information visit
Course
Coordinator:
email: thomas@math.colostate.edu
Last
updated: Sunday, May 18th,
2003