Syllabus
Course website: www.math.ncsu.edu/~aszanto/MA302
Course Moodle page: http://moodle.wolfware.ncsu.edu/
1. Instructor:
Dr. Agnes Szanto
SAS 4120
Tel: 515-7547
E-mail: aszanto
Office Hours
Mon-Wed 2:00-3:00pm
or by appointment
2. Course Prerequisites
C or better grade in MA241 or permission from instructor
3. Goals and Objectives
This
course uses Matlab, Matlab's ODE
suite, and is taught at a level suitable for students who have passed two
semesters of calculus. There are five parts, and each has three lectures. The
first lecture introduces a new topic, and the following two lectures will
stress applications and variation of the model's parameters.
4. Textbook
The online text included in this website. See "Topics" and the links there.
Additional
course materials can be found in the texts by Danby, or Nagle, Saff and Snider.
5. Topics for each class
See "Topics" menu on the left.
6. Tentative schedule of reading assignments
See "Topics"
7. Tentative schedule of homework due dates, quizzes and tests
The homework for each class is to solve the multiple choice questions from the previous clss. I do not collect the homework, but these same multiple choice questions comprise the quizzes. There are no solution keys for the multiple choice questions, the only way to learn the correct answers is to read the lecture notes and try to answer them yourself, or to ask your questions at the beginning od each class or at office hours.
For the dates of the 4 tests see "Test Dates" at the menu bar
8. Determination of grades: + and - system
Quiz 1 (25%)
Quiz 2 (25%)
Quiz 3 (25%)
Quiz 4 (25%)
Letter grade is according to the
following:
A+ = 99-100, A = 92-98+, A- = 90-91+
, B+ = 88-89+, B = 82-87+, B- = 80-81+
, C+ = 78-79+, C = 72-77+, C- = 70-71+, D+ = 68-69+, D = 62-67+, D- = 60-61+
Those students who have at most 3 absences (for any reason)
at the end of the semester, will have their worst test grade dropped, and the other three counted 33.3% each.
9. Policy on incomplete
grades and late assignments
Homework each class is the completion of the multiple choice questions, and finishing up the matlab implementation. The homework is not collected but the quizzes consist of the same multiple choice questions. No solution handed out for the multiple choice questions, but we start each class by answering questions about the previous multiple choice questions.
10. Policy on absences (excused and unexcused) and scheduling makeup
work
Attendance will be taken at every class. Students are expected to arrive on time, and to stay until they finish all work assigned at class. Each student have to show individually his/her completed work to the instructor, who then gives instructions on how to complete the attendence quiz on Moodle. Failing to do so will be considered as an absence from class, or as cheating (for example if the student copies the attendance quiz from his/her neighbours without showing the completed work to the instructor is considered cheating).
Those students
who have at most 3 absences (for any reason) at the end of the semester, will have theitr worst test grade dropped.
Missed quizzes are not allowed unless an official
written (medical, legal) excuse is presented before the test or in emergency
cases at most one week after the test. In these special cases the students are allowed to reschedule the quiz.
11. Academic Integrity Statement:
Students are expected to
follow university guidelines available at
http://www.ncsu.edu/policies/student_services/student_discipline/POL11.35.1.php
12. NC State policy on working with students with disabilities:
Reasonable accommodations will be made for students with verifiable disabilities.
In order to take advantage of available accommodations, students must register
with Disability Services for Students at 1900 Student Health Center, Campus
Box 7509, 515-7653. For more information on NC State's policy on working
with students with disabilities, please see the Academic Accommodations
for Students with Disabilities Regulation (REG02.20.1) (link).
13. Statement on laboratory safety or risk assumption in courses requiring physical activity or field trips:
None
14. Statement on extra expenses or charges e.g. lane rental at bowling alley, field trip costs, etc.:
None
15. Transportation Information:
None
16. Class evaluation
Online class evaluations
will be available for students to complete during the last two weeks of
class. Students
will receive an email message directing them to a website where they can
login using their Unity ID and complete evaluations. All evaluations
are confidential; instructors will never know how any one student
responded to any question, and students will never know the ratings for
any particular instructors.
Evaluation website:
https://classeval.ncsu.edu
Student help desk:
classeval@ncsu.edu
More information about ClassEval:
http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/classeval/index.htm