Office Phone

423-425-4575 (Leave a message on the answering machine and I will try to reach you.)

Email Address

Terry-Walters@utc.edu. To enhance student services, the University will use your UTC email address (typically firstname-lastname@utc.edu) for communications. (Go to http://www.utc.edu, click on Current Students, then Student Directory (under Campus Life) and type in your name for your exact address. Or you can go to http://onenet.utc.edu and click on Forgot Password to try to get your email address and Onenet password.) Please check your UTC email on a regular basis. If you have problems with accessing your email account, contact the Help Desk at (423) 425-2678.

Prerequisites

UTC Math Placement level 20 or Math 106 with minimum grade of C.

Syllabus

Homework

We will have homework that consists of problems that are in our textbook. There is no way to learn mathematics without a lot of thought and work on your part. Reading and understanding the text are very important but you can only learn mathematics by doing it. I strongly recommend that you work on homework with other members of the class, if possible. If you do not understand how to work any problem successfully, ask your classmates, a tutor, your instructor, or others for help. Do not procrastinate! Not keeping up with the course, i.e., not doing homework and reading and understanding the text, is the # 1 reason for not doing well in this course!

Calculators

For all of the homework and most parts of the in-class and final exams I will assume that each of you has and knows how to use a calculator. You should have a calculator that has exponential and logarithmic functions. There might be parts of the exams that will be calculator-free.

Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability and think that you might need special assistance or a special accommodation in this class or any other class, call the Office for Students with Disabilities/College Access Program at 755-4006 or come by the office, 110 Frist Hall. Examples of disabilities are blindness/low vision, communication disorders, deafness/hearing impairments, emotional/psychological disabilities, learning disabilities, and other health impairments.

Attendance

"You are expected to be here for every class. Coming late and leaving early should be rare occurrences since it is impolite and distracting to the entire class. However, it is better to be tardy than not to come at all. If you are tardy, please enter as quietly as possible and sit near the entrance. If you have to leave early for any reason, please let me know ahead of time and sit near the exit."

Current Catalog Description

Common Courtesy

Ringing cell-phones and beeping pagers are rude and disruptive and are prohibited from this class! Your nth violation earns you a penalty of (2 ^{n -1} -1)% off your next test grade.

UTC Honor Code

Your instructor has had to turn in a number of students to the honor court for cheating. This is usually devastating to the student. You are expected to read the Honor Code at http://www.utc.edu/Units/student/handbook/academics.pdf . If you have computer problems that prevent you from reading this policy then read the policy in a computer lab at UTC.