Florida Community College at Jacksonville

Deerwood Center

Summer Term 2008

Course Prefix: STA 2023                                    Course Title: Elementary Statistics

Instructor Name: Ken Mulzet                             Office Number: C2312

Meeting Time: 5:30 – 9:25 pm W                       Room: D1401

Phone number: 997-2737                                     Email: mulzet@yahoo.com

Office Hours:    Monday                                      10:30 am - 12:00 pm, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

                           Tuesday                                      10:00 am - 11:30 am

                           Wednesday                                 10:30 am - 12:00 pm, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

                           Thursday                                     10:30 am - 11:30 am

INTRODUCTION:  This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of descriptive and inferential statistics with a pronounced emphasis on inference. The major topics include methods for analyzing sets of data, probability, probability distributions, estimation, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, simple linear regression, and correlation. The probability and statistical skills measured by CLAST are among the skills taught in this course. Students with a grade of "C" or better in MGF 1106 satisfy the prerequisite. Three contact hours.

PREREQUISITE: MGF 1106 or MAC 1105 with a grade of "C" or better.

COURSE DATES:  Important course dates:

Course Start: 9/26/05

Course End: 12/12/05

Drop/Add Date: 10/03/05

Non-Attendance Date: 10/03/05

Withdrawal with Refund Date: 10/03/05

Withdrawal with Grade of “W” Date: 11/16/05

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK(S)/INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL: Elementary Statistics: A Step by Step Approach, Allan G. Bluman, fifth edition copyright 2004 McGraw Hill Higher Education.

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.  Homework will be collected once a week.  Exam 1 will be on October 19, exam 2 November 9 and exam 3 November 30.  The final exam will be on December 14 in class.  Final grades will be calculated as follows:

Homework                                                       20%

Exam 1                                                             20%

Exam 2                                                             20%

Exam 3                                                             20%

Final exam                                                        20%

Total                                                                100%

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 refer to the college catalog and/or official college class 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:  All work is to be completed as assigned.  If an assignment is late, it must be turned in no later than one week past the assigned due date.  A late penalty of 10% will be assessed.

COURSE OUTLINE