Florida Community College at Jacksonville

Deerwood Center

Summer Term 2008

Course Prefix: MAC 2311                                  Course Title: Calculus I

Instructor Name: Ken Mulzet                             Office Number: C2312

Phone Number: 997-2737                                    Email: kmulzet@fccj.edu

Meeting Time: 9:00 am – 10:40 pm MTWR     Room: D1401

Office Hours:    MTWR 10:45 - 11:15                 Website: www1.fccj.edu/kmulzet

INTRODUCTION:  This course is designed for students who plan to major in mathematics, science, engineering, computer sciences or any other field that requires the study of calculus. It is the first course of a three-course calculus sequence. The major topics in this course are limits and continuity, differentiation of algebraic and trigonometric functions, applications of the derivative, anti-differentiation, introduction to integration and applications of the definite integral.

PREREQUISITES: MAC 1140 and MAC 1114, with grades of "C" or better or two years of high school algebra and one semester of high school trigonometry, or MAC 1147 with a "C" or better.

COURSE DATES:     Important course dates:

Start Date: 5/05/08

End Date: 6/26/08

Drop/Add Date: 5/07/08

Non-Attendance Date: 5/12/08

Withdrawal with Refund Date: 5/12/08

Withdrawal with Grade of “W” Date: 6/12/08

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK:  Calculus with Early Transcendental Functions, Fourth Edition by Larson, Hostetler and Edwards, copyright 2007 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

POLICY AND PROCEDURES:

Academic Integrity from the College catalogue: “Academic dishonesty is considered a serious and is expressly prohibited.  This policy includes all course assessment, related assignments, and all standardized tests (e.g. CPT, CLAST, CAT).  Such dishonesty includes:

1. cheating, which is defined as the giving or taking of any information or material with the intent of wrongfully aiding oneself or another in academic work considered in the determination of a course grade or the outcome of a standardized assessment,
2. plagiarism, which is defined as the act of stealing or passing off as one’s own work the words, ideas or conclusions of another as if the work submitted were the product of one’s own thinking rather than an idea or product derived from another source, or
3. any other form of inappropriate behavior which may include but is not limited to falsifying records or data, lying, unauthorized copying, tampering, abusing or otherwise unethically using computer or other stored information, and any other act or misconduct which may reasonably be deemed to be a part of this heading.

Any student alleged to have committed any act of academic dishonesty as defined herein, shall be entitled to due process as defined in District Board of Trustees Rule 6Hx7-2.18, prior to the administration of disciplinary action including suspension and dismissal.”

COURSE EVALUATION/GRADING: There will be 3 exams and one final in this course.  No make up exams will be administered.  Homework will be collected every Tuesday and Thursday.  Test 1 will be on May 14, test 2 on June 3, and test 3 on June 12.  The final exam will be administered on June 25.  Homework will comprise 20% of the grade; each exam and the final will also comprise 20%, for a total of 100%.  Breakdown of letter grades is as follows:

A:  90 – 100%

B:  80 – 89%

C:  70 – 79%

D:  60 – 69%

F:     0 – 59%

FN: Failure for non-attendance

NA: Dropped from the class for non-attendance

Withdrawals:  Please see above schedule for pertinent dates for NA and FN grades, as well as the deadline date for class withdrawal.  If you decide to withdraw from the class, please see the instructor for a signature.

Incompletes:  Only in rare instances will an incomplete be given.  At the very least, the student must complete 75% of the assigned course work.  A request for an “I” must be made in writing at least two weeks prior to the second exam.  A request does not guarantee an approval for an incomplete.

Late assignments:  For every day an assignment is late, a 25% penalty will be assessed.  If an assignment is more than 4 days late (one week), it WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.  Make up exams will only be given if a student knows in advance that he or she will not be able to take an exam.  In this case it is their responsibility to inform the professor prior to the scheduled exam date, and why.  Arrangements will then be made for alternative arrangements.

COURSE OUTLINE