CATALOG DESCRIPTION: MATH 017 (GQ) FINITE MATHEMATICS (3 semester hours) Introduction to logic, sets, probability.

PREREQUISITES: Two units of high school mathematics

TEXT BOOK: Finite Mathematics, Eighth Edition, by Lial, Greenwell and Ritchey, published by Addison Wesley (Pearson).

COURSE FORMAT: There are three 50-minute lectures each week. The sections covered in these lectures are listed at the end of this syllabus.

EXAMINATIONS: 

Two 75-minute evening examinations will be given during the semester and a comprehensive final examination will be given during the final examination period. NO books, notes, or calculators may be used on the examinations. You must bring your University ID card to all exams. The examinations will be given from 6:30 to 7:45 PM on the following dates:

Midterm Examination I: Monday, February 18, Room
Midterm Examination II: Wednesday, March 26, Room

Rooms for the examinations may also be announced by your instructor at a later date, and may also be found on the bulletin board outside 104 McAllister.

CONFLICT EXAMINATIONS: For the two mid-semester examinations, there is a conflict examination from 5:05 to 6:20 PM on the same night as the regular examination. 

Who may take the Conflict Exam?  If you have a valid conflict with the regular examination time, such as a class or other scheduled activity, you may sign up for the conflict exam.

How and when to sign up for the Conflict Exam.  Students must sign up for the Conflict Exam in class, with your instructor, on a pink form.  The student is responsible for knowing the room and time of the conflict examination.  This information is on  top of the pink form. Your instructor must turn in the pink form 2 class days prior to the examination date. If you have not signed up with your instructor, you will not be allowed to take the conflict exam. 

Instructions on Conflict Exam night.   The student is responsible for knowing the room and time of the conflict examination.  Students must bring their University ID to the conflict examination. The ID will be checked by the proctor. Although the conflict examination will end at 6:20 PM, no student will be permitted to leave the examination room before 6:25 PM. Any student who leaves before 6:25 PM will receive a grade of zero on the examination and will not be allowed to retake it.

MAKEUP EXAMINATIONS:  A makeup exam will be given about a week following the regularly scheduled exam.

Who may take the makeup exam?  Students who have a valid documented reason, such as a class conflict or illness, during both the conflict and regular examination times are permitted to schedule a makeup examination with no penalty. You must be prepared to verify the reason for taking the makeup. Students who do not have a valid reason for missing the examination, such as forgetting the date, time, or room of an examination, are  permitted to schedule the makeup, but 20 points will be deducted from their score. Students who have taken either the regularly scheduled examination or conflict examination are not permitted to take the makeup examination. Students who have not signed up for the makeup with their instructor will not be allowed to take the exam. The makeup examinations are given from 6:30 to 7:45 PM on the evenings listed below::

Make Up Exam I:  Tuesday, February 26
Make Up Exam II: Tuesday, April 1

How and when to sign up for the Makeup Exam.  Students must sign up for the Makeup Exam in class, with your instructor, on a yellow form, as soon as possible following the regular exam date.   The student is responsible for knowing the room and time of the makeup examination. This information is on top of the yellow form.  Your instructor must turn in the yellow form 2 class days prior to the examination date. If you have not signed up with your instructor, you will not be allowed to take the makeup exam.

Instructions on Makeup Exam night.   Students are responsible for knowing the room and time.  On the day of the exam the room will be posted on the door of 104 McAllister. Students must bring their University ID to the makeup examination.  The ID will be checked by the proctor.

What if a student misses both the regularly scheduled exam and the makeup exam?  If a student misses both the regularly scheduled examination and the scheduled makeup due to a valid, verifiable reason, it may be possible to take a makeup examination by appointment. All such makeup examinations must be scheduled through the instructor with the approval of the course coordinator and must be completed no later than one week after the scheduled makeup  examination.

DEFERRED GRADES: Students who are unable to complete the course because of illness or emergency may be granted a deferred grade which will allow the student to complete the course within the first six weeks of the following semester. If the student is scheduled for Math 110 or Math 140, then the student must complete the course within 2 weeks of the following semester. Note that deferred grades are limited to those students who can verify and document a valid reason for not being able to take the final examination. For more information see, DF grade.

LATE-DROP: Students may add/drop a course without academic penalty within the first ten calendar days of the semester. A student may late drop a course within the first twelve weeks of the semester but accrues late drop credits equal to the number of credits in the dropped course. A baccalaureate student is limited to 16 late drop credits. The late drop deadline for Spring 2008 is April 11, 2008.

GRADES:  Your course grade will be determined by your exam scores and a homework/quiz score (labeled “QZ” by Testing Services).

 Total possible points follow:   

 After the second exam and before the late-drop deadline the guaranteed maximum grade-line cutoffs for the major grades (A, B, C, D,  F) will be provided to facilitate your planning for the rest of the semester.  The +/- grade-lines will be assigned after the final exam.  The unavoidable consequence is that some students are just “a point” away from the higher grade.  For the reason of fairness, the policy in this course is to NOT adjust individual grades in such circumstances. 

 NOTE: Your grade will be based EXCLUSIVELY on the midterm examinations, homework and/or quizzes and final examination. There is no "extra-credit" work.

Academic integrity includes a commitment not to engage in or tolerate acts of falsification, misrepresentation or deception. Such acts of dishonesty violate the
fundamental ethical principles of the University community and compromise the worth of work completed by others.

"Academic dishonesty includes, but is no limited to, cheating, plagiarizing, . . ., facilitating acts of academic dishonesty by others, having unauthorized possession of examinations, submitting work of another person or work previously used without informing the instructor, or tampering with academic work of other students. . . . A student charged with academic dishonesty will be given oral or written notice of the charge by the instructor. If students believe that they have been falsely accused, they should seek redress through informal discussions with the instructor, the department head, dean or campus executive officer. If the instructor believes that the infraction is sufficiently serious to warrant the referral of the case to Judicial Affairs, or if the instructor will award a final grade of F in the course because of the infraction, the student and instructor will be afforded formal due process procedures." From Policies and Rules, Student Guide to the University Policy 49-20.

Based on the University's Faculty Senate Policy 49-20, a range of academic sanctions may be taken against a student who engages in academic dishonesty.  Please see the Eberly College of Science Academic Integrity homepage for additional information and procedures.

Course Coordinator

Ms Mary Erickson
104 McAllister
Telephone: (814) 865-7528
E-mail: erickson@math.psu.edu
Include your Name, Student ID, Course, and Section Number in any correspondence

LECTURE-BY-LECTURE BREAKDOWN

Instructor may convert some of the lectures as "activity day".