Liberal
Arts Mathematics 1
MGF1106,
Section 3316
Online
Instruction
0520
Fall 2016
View the Syllabus
Addendum, which provides the most current version of fluid
information, such as the academic calendar.
I'm excited to share this
course with you and your classmates. We cover a wide variety of topics
over the semester, some of which are likely to be brand new to you. Don't
worry! This course is set up to help you master the material.
Please make sure to watch the videos, read the appropriate textbook sections,
and practice problems prior to attempting the quizzes, practice exams, and
tests. You can complete these practice problems either out of your
textbook or in MyMathLab (Course ID: ward85603) NOTE: MyMathLab is Optional.
Please note that the Midterm Exam and Final Exam are proctored exams. You
will either take those on an SPC campus, or you will need to hire a Proctor of
your own. Information on this can be found at http://mycoursessupport.spcollege.edu/proctored-testing-information.
Name: Dennis Ward
Email: ward.dennis@spcollege.edu)
Phone: 727-394-6959
Office and Online Chat
Hours: TBD
Office Location: Inside the Seminole Library, LI-205A
Instructor Web Page: http://web.spcollege.edu/instructors/id/1762/
Name: Jimmy Chang
Office Location: SP/G SA-215
Office Phone Number: 727-341-4305
Email: Chang.Jimmy@spcollege.edu
Name: Lisa Borzewski
Office Location: Seminole Campus UP 337F
Office Phone Number: (727) 394-6170
Email: borzewski.lisa@spcollege.edu
URL: http://www.spcollege.edu/math/
Course Description: This course is a general survey course
in mathematics and covers a number of traditional, independent topics and will
include concepts related to mathematical logic, sets, systematic counting,
probability, statistics and geometry. Credit will be given only for MGF 1113 or
MGF 1106. 47 contact hours. (Course Outline)
Course Goals &
Objectives:
Prerequisites: MAT 1100 with a minimum grade of “C,”
or MAT 1033, or appropriate score on the SPC mathematics placement test
Availability
of Course Content: All
modules will be available from the first week of class. The Midterm and Final
Exams are scheduled according to the college’s academic calendar. Please check
with the course calendar or your instructor for those dates. Please consider
these dates when deciding whether, and how much to work ahead.
Required Textbook: “Thinking Mathematically 6e” (textbook
only) by Blitzer
Publisher Information: Pearson Higher Education
ISBN: 9780321867322
Alternatives to the
required materials:
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bookstore site
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libraries site
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Services site
View the Academic
Support Services site
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On-Campus Support site
View the Student
Services and Resources site
Course Dates: Aug. 15 to Dec 8
Drop Date: Aug 19
Withdrawal Date: Oct 20
Proctor Dates: View the Proctored
Testing Information site
Financial Aid Dates: View the Financial
Aid Dates site
A scientific calculator (i.e.
TI-30 +) or a Graphing calculator (i.e. TI-83) are allowed for homework. You
may not use any calculator that has a QWERTY keyboard (i.e. TI-nSpire; TI-92;
etc.), that can communicate with other people or devices (i.e. iPod Touch;
calculators on a phone), or online calculators.
Class is a professional
environment, and should be treated as such. Respect is expected in every
correspondence, whether between student and instructor or between student and
student. Communication in a manner that is not respectful (as determined by the
instructor) may result in removal from the classroom at the discretion of the
instructor.
View the
college-wide attendance policy included in the Syllabus Addendum.
The policy notes that
each instructor is to exercise professional judgment and define “active
participation” in class (and therefore “attendance”), and publish that
definition in each syllabus.
For this class,
attendance is defined as: completing all quizzes, reviews, exams, and other
assignments in a timely manner. If the student fails to take the Midterm Exam,
or is missing more than one Module Exam whose deadline has passed by the 60%
date will be withdrawn from the course.
A: 100% - 90%
B: 89% - 80%
C: 79% - 70%
D: 69% - 60%
F: 59% - 0%
Please note that all due dates
will be listed in MyCourses. They should be accessible through both the Calendar and Course Content menus. With
the exception of the Midterm and Final exams, all materials and assignments
should be available beginning on the first day of the semester.
You will be asked to complete
several of these short, untimed quizzes each week. You will be offered up
to 3 attempts for each assignment. Your grade for each assignment will be
the highest attempt. You are encouraged to use these quizzes as an
opportunity to test your own knowledge and find areas in need of improvement.
As such, you should review the results and correct any errors prior to taking
the next attempt. All quizzes will be available in the first week of
class and close on their due date.
You will have 3 opportunities
to explore the deep history behind some of the mathematics you’ll be exploring
throughout the semester and share what you’ve learned. All prompts will
be available in the first week of class and close on their due date.
You will have several
opportunities to show your instructor how you work a novel problem. These
assignments will culminate in you uploading your work and solution to a Drop
Box to get more detailed feedback from your instructor. All “Show Your
Work” assignments will be available in the first week of class and close on
their due date.
You will take 6 timed module
exams. You are expected to complete these exams without the aid of your
textbook, notes, Google, or other such resources. Each exam is timed (70
minutes). If you exit the exam, the timer will continue. As with
the quizzes, you should use the results of each exam as an opportunity to
improve your knowledge by reviewing the results and finding any errors in your
thinking and/or computations. All Module exams will be available in the
first week of class and close on their due date.
You will take a proctored
Midterm and Final exam according to the college schedule. Each of these
exams account for 25% of your grade. If you are local to SPC, then you
will take the exam on campus under the supervision of a SPC proctor. If
you are not local to SPC, or if coming to campus at that time would be an undue
burden, you may hire a private proctor to oversee the administration of these
exams for an additional cost. The Midterm and Final exams will only be
available during the college’s listed testing periods.
Extensions will only be offered
in cases of significant illness, death in the family, or other significant
impediment to completing the assignments on time and only with appropriate
documentation.
Late assignments will not be
accepted without proper documentation of physical inability of access class
during the due date and instructor approval. Loss of internet is not a
valid excuse for missing a deadline. The instructor may use discretion in
offering alternate options in unusual cases.
All requests for
extensions must be made prior to the next unit exam due date or the end of the
semester.
REQUIRED
INTERACTION
Students are expected to read
all instructions, communications (including email and announcements) in a
timely manner. All communications should be respectful and professional.
Students are expected to post to a Muddiest Point discussion board weekly to
demonstrate active participation. Students are expected to review all
graded assignments for accuracy in the grading, as well as to review any errors
in their own understanding.
Instructors will respond to
emails within 48 hours Monday – Friday. Your instructor may or may not
respond immediately in the evenings, on the weekends, and over holidays.
Please plan your emergencies accordingly. Instructors will strive to
grade all assignments within one week of its due date, excluding Spring Break
and Thanksgiving Break (when appropriate). Quizzes and Exams will be
automatically and immediately graded.
SPC has outlined expectations
for student behavior and interaction for online discussions, email, and other
forms of communication. View the Student Expectations in the Syllabus
Addendum.
View the Academic
Honesty Policy
SPC has outlined expectations
for student behavior and interaction for online discussions, email, and other
forms of communication. View the
Netiquette expectations in the Syllabus Addendum.
The instructor of this course
may require use of Turnitin.com as a tool to promote learning. The tool flags
similarity and mechanical issues in written work that merit review. Use of the
service enables students and faculty to identify areas that can be strengthened
through improved paraphrasing, integration of sources, or proper citation.
Submitted papers remain as source documents in the Turnitin database solely for
the purpose of detecting originality. Students retain full copyright to their
works. Review the Turnitin
Usage Agreement. Students who do not wish to submit work through Turnitin
must notify their instructor via course email within the first seven days of
the course. In lieu of Turnitin use, faculty may require a student to submit
copies of sources, preliminary drafts, a research journal, or an annotated
bibliography.
The Student Survey of
Instruction is administered in courses each semester. It is designed to improve
the quality of instruction at St. Petersburg College. All student responses are
confidential and anonymous and will be used solely for the purpose of
performance improvement.
View the MyCourses Minimum Technology Requirements
Students should know how to
navigate the course and use the course tools. Dropbox-style assignments may
require attachments in either Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) or Rich Text
Format (.rtf), so that they can be properly evaluated. If an attachment cannot
be opened by the instructor, students will be required to re-format and
re-submit an assignment so that it can be evaluated and returned with
feedback.
MyCourses tutorials are
available to students new to this LMS and are located at the beginning of the
course. Most features on MyCourses are accessible on mobile devices, although
it is recommended that you use a computer for quizzes, tests, and essay
assignments.
ACCESSIBILITY OF
TECHNOLOGY
View the
MyCourses (Brightspace by Desire2Learn) Accessibility Statement
PRIVACY
View the
MyCourses (Brightspace by Desire2Learn) Privacy Statement
View the
MyMathLab (Pearson) Privacy Statement
View the
Turnitin Privacy Statement
View
the Purdue OWL Terms & Conditions of Fair Use Statement
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Technical support is available
via the St.
Petersburg College Technical Support Help Desk
The St. Petersburg College
website at www.spcollege.edu is the
official source of college information regarding the status of the institution.
Other important information will be communicated via SPC Alert, local media
outlets, and the college toll-free phone number 866-822-3978. All decisions
concerning the discontinuation of college functions, cancellation of classes,
or cessation of operations rest with the President or his/her designee. The
College realizes that it is possible for a significant natural disaster to
compromise SPC campus facilities sufficiently to disrupt the delivery of
classes on campus/campuses for an extended period of time, and is planning ways
our operations can continue following such an emergency.
So, in the event that a
hurricane or other natural disaster causes significant damage to St. Petersburg
College facilities, you may be provided the opportunity to complete your course
work online. Following the event, please visit the college website for an
announcement of the College's plan to resume operations.
Further, in the event of such a
disaster, the instructor will continue using the Learning Management System
(LMS) of MyCourses for continuation of all required learning and instructional
activities in this course, including the issuing of graded online assignments
and expectation of student completion of those graded assignments.
Therefore, in order to keep up
with all activities in this course during and after a natural disaster, please
plan to continue this course by maintaining online access to MyCourses in lieu
of meeting in a classroom—possibly through duration of the course’s regularly
scheduled end date. We will finish this course in MyCourses, as directed by
your instructor online, and your instructor will use all graded
assignments—both online and formerly on-campus—to assess and issue your final
letter grade for this course, as normally planned, despite occurrence of the
natural disaster.