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Instructor: Patrick Staley
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Office: 390D
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Office hours: 1:30-2:20PM Mon-Wed-Fri; 11:00-11:50PM Tue-Thur
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Telephone: 619-421-6700, ext 5521
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Textbook: Trigonometry 9th Edition by Lial, Hornsby, and Schneider
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Prerequisite: Math 70 or equivalent with grade of C or better.
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Class Meetings Tue Thur 9:30Am-10:45AM room 342
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Graphing and Calculating Tool -- TI Calculator
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Course Description
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Attendance Policy
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Students are expected to attend all lectures. If a student misses excessive class time, he/she may be dropped. Attendance is taken with a seating chart. Missing the second hour of a two hour class will be marked as an absence. All absences are the same, i.e. there are no “excused” absences. A student with four or more tardies may be dropped from the class.
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Electronic Devices Policy
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During lecture and exams please turn off all phones, pagers, music devices, tape recorders, etc.
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Special Accommodations
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Southwestern College recommends that students with disabilities discuss academic accommodations with their professors during the first two weeks of class. An alternate form of this syllabus is available upon request.
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Homework
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There will be homework due for every chapter. Repeated failure to complete homework assignments will be identified as non-performance. The assigned homework problems will be posted on the class website.
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Grading
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Grade Computation
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Your final grade will be a composite of several "Chapter" exams and a Final Exam. The Final Exam is weighted as one and one-half "Chapter" exams. Letter grades of A,B,C,D, or F are assigned to each exam and to the Final Exam. These are then incorporated into the final grade based on the weight assignments A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, and F=0. There will be no make up tests. You should be able to access your current aggregate grade through the class website.
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Example
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Assume chapter test grades of B,D,B,B, B and a final exam grade of A. Then class grade = (3+1+3+3+3+4*1.5)/6.5 = 2.92 = B (note that for the class grade A is 3.501 to 4.0, B is 2.501 to 3.5, C is 1.501 to 2.5, D is 0.9 to 1.5, and F is 0 to .89)
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Exam Policies
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No make-up tests.
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Knowing the correct answer to an exam question is insufficient—the correct answer must be written on the answer sheet.
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Exam answers that confuse the grader will be marked wrong.
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Grade Notification
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The class website, www.staley-classes.org, has the most current grade sheet. The grade sheet is password protected. You can access the grade sheet at any time after the first exam has been scored.
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www.staley-classes.org contains relevant information for this class including: homework assignments, current notes to students, information on exams, an updated syllabus, the current grade sheet (password protected), project descriptions, exam practice problems, practice tests, answers to practice tests, and other relevant information. So that you receive website update notifications please send an email message using the “get it” link under the appropriate “Notification” line. This will put you on the email notification list for the class.
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Behavior Policies
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A student may be dropped from the class for excessive absences.
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Excuses: There are no "excused" absences in this class. All absences are treated equally.
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If you are going to be absent on an exam day make prior arrangements with the teacher. There are no makeup exams for no-shows on exam day.
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Students who miss three classes are subject to being dropped.
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A student may be excluded from the class for disruptive behavior.
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Cheating
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Behavior indicative of cheating will be handled by an oral exam. behavior example
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The oral exam is an investigation of the rational for the “behavior indicative of cheating”. oral exam example
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The outcome of this process will be one of: F grade on the exam, F grade for the semester, student drops the class, or reinstatement of the score.
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This penalty also applies to any accomplice. So make sure that when you help someone they can defend their work.
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Tutorial Services
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The MESA Center, located in room 396, provides free tutoring for this course.
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The Academic Success Center in room 420 also offers tutoring for trigonometry.
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Projected Schedule
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week 1 –Chapter 1 --- week 10 --Chapter 5
week 2 --Chapter 1 --- week 11 --Chapter 6
week 3 --Chapter 2 --- week 12 --Chapter 6
week 4 --Chapter 2 --- week 13 --Chapter 7
week 5 --Chapter 3 --- week 14 --Chapter 7
week 6 --Chapter 3 --- week 15 --Chapter 8
week 7 --Chapter 4 --- week 16 –Chapter 8
week 8 --Chapter 4 --- week 17 -- cool stuff!
week 9 --Chapter 5 --- week 18 --Final Exam
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Final Exam
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The final exam is comprehensive.
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Date/time for the final exam--Thursday May 17 8-10AM
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Initial Assignment
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Buy the Textbook
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Read Chapter 1
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