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Pre Calculus, 3rd Ed., by Faires and DeFranza. Published by Brooks Cole.

Lectures
You are expected to attend all lectures and be on time. You are responsible for all material discussed in each class. Therefore, it is important that you attend class regularly and actively participate. See the Course Outline for more lecture details.

Homework/Quizzes
Each instructor will individually assign and determine how homework and quizzes will be scored. Homework should be neat and easy to read. It is expected that you show all your work and include clear explanations of your thinking for each problem.

Exams
There will be three midterm exams and a final exam. Each midterm will be given during lecture time. The following dates are tentative. Make sure to attend lectures to hear any changes.

Midterm 1 will be Friday, Sep 21 and covers Chapter 1.
Midterm 2 will be Wednesday, Oct 17 and covers Chapter 2 and 3.
Midterm 3 will be Friday, Nov 9 and covers Chapter 4 until section 4.6.

The Final Exam will be during the Mathematics Common Exam time.
The time and location of the exam will be announced later.
The final exam is cumulative.

Makeups
Each instructor will individually institute a makeup policy for homework and quizzes. Makeup exams will only be given in extreme cases. If a true emergency arises which will cause you to miss an exam, you are responsible to notify your instructor before the exam and arrangements will be made at that time. The course coordinator reserves the right to refuse to allow a makeup exam. A final exam makeup must be approved by the Office of the Dean of Students.

Grading
The final semester grade will be determined using the following method

Homework/Quizzes	10 %
Midterm 1	20 %
Midterm 2	20 %
Midterm 3	20 %
Final Exam	30 %

Calculator Policy
Calculators will be allowed during exams and quizzes; however all work must be shown in order to receive full credit on each problem. Calculators that can perform symbolic operations or store symbolic formulas (such as the HP 28 or 48 or TI-92 or 89) are not allowed, even if all programs are erased before the exam begins. If you bring a calculator to an exam/quiz, make sure it does not do alphanumeric manipulation. The instructor may randomly ask for calculators and check programs stored in memory. No alphanumeric formulas stored as programs are allowable. Discovery of such material will result in confiscation of the exam/quiz of the person using that calculator and assignment of a grade of 0 for the exam/quiz.

Q-Center
Your first and main resource is your instructor. Additional help can be found at the Q-Center. The Q-Center offers peer-tutoring services, review workshops on specific mathematical topics and other review programs.

See their website for a list of workshops and more information: The Q-Center.

Student Athletes
Inform your instructor as soon as possible of class interferences due to your commitments as an athlete. You will be expected to bring in a letter from the Athletics Department. The sooner you notify us, the better we will be able to accommodate you.

Students with Disabilities
Inform your instructor as soon as possible of any special needs that you may have. You will be expected to bring in a letter from the Center for Students with Disabilities. The sooner you notify us, the better we will be able to accommodate you.

Academic Integrity
A fundamental tenet of all educational institutions is academic honesty; academic work depends upon respect for and acknowledgment of the work and ideas of others. Misrepresenting someone else's work as one's own is a serious offense in any academic setting and it will not be condoned.

Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to, providing or receiving assistance in a manner not authorized by the instructor in the creation of work to be submitted for academic evaluation (e.g. papers, projects, examinations and assessments - whether online or in class); presenting, as one's own, the ideas, words or calculations of another for academic evaluation; doing unauthorized academic work for which another person will receive credit or be evaluated; using unauthorized aids in preparing work for evaluation (e.g. unauthorized formula sheets, unauthorized calculators, unauthorized programs or formulas loaded into your calculator, etc.); and presenting the same or substantially the same papers or projects in two or more courses without the explicit permission of the instructors involved.

A student who knowingly assists another student in committing an act of academic misconduct shall be equally accountable for the violation, and shall be subject to the sanctions and other remedies described in The Student Code. Sanctions shall include, but are not limited to, a letter sent to the Dean of Students of the University; a grade of 0 on the assignment, quiz or exam; a grade of F for the course.
(Taken from the UConn Policy on Academic Misconduct)

Conflicts
If you have serious problems with the course, your first action is to try to resolve it with your instructor. If this does not work, next send an email to the Course Coordinator (bowers@math.uconn.edu) to organize a meeting. If the problem is still not resolved, contact the Department of Mathematics.

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