GEOLOGY 1500 CLASS SYLLABUS – SPRING 2009
INSTRUCTOR - Dr. Stephen B. Harper OFFICE PHONE: 328-6773
OFFICE - 104 Graham Hall E-MAIL: harpers@ecu.edu
OFFICE HOURS – 9:30-11:00 TTh, 2:00-4:00 TTh, and by appointment
COURSE TEXTS - Geology 1500 Lecture Notes and Illustrations – Spring 2009 by Stephen B. Harper
EXAMS - There will be 3 MAJOR EXAMS and a FINAL EXAM. Each of the 3 major exams will count 18% toward
each
student’s final course grade. The FINAL EXAM will
re-test the topics from Exam #3 plus all new topics covered after Exam #3
and will count 25%
toward each student’s final course grade.
The dates for all of these exams are listed on the class schedule on the
reverse side of this handout.
EXAM FORMAT - A little bit of this and a little bit of that, but the format may include some short discussion, labelling
diagrams, and/or problem solving with a core of multiple choice questions. Old exams will be provided via Internet Link or posted outside my office.
MAKE-UP EXAMS - A make-up exam will be administered one time only for each major exam to those students who
have a written medical excuse for missing the regularly scheduled exam. Each student must take the responsibility to arrange with the instructor to take the make-up exam within 48 hours after the missed exam or even before it has been missed. Any student who does not take a regularly scheduled exam or the equivalent make-up exam will receive a 0 for that exam. There is no make-up exam for the Final Exam. Be there or be dead!
TAKE-HOME QUIZZES - These quizzes will not be difficult and will be based on major concepts of recent
lecture
material. The average of these quizzes will count 18% of each student’s
course grade. Each student will be allowed to drop his/her 2 lowest quiz
scores. These quizzes will be
given out in one period and due at the beginning of the next class period
(e.g., a quiz given out on Tuesday will be due at the beginning of class on the
following Thursday, and Thursday quizzes will be due on following Tuesday). NO EXCEPTIONS! There
are NO make-ups for the quizzes so you MUST BE IN CLASS to pick them up and
to turn them in.
HOMEWORK – You will have homework assignments on each unit. These will be sent to you via your ECU
Exchange Email Account but will NOT be graded, but you are encouraged to complete them on a timely basis and then compare your answers to keys, which will emailed to you when we have finished each unit. The purpose of these homework assignments are two-fold: (1) to prepare you for some of the questions on the major exams; and (2) to focus your reading on the important parts of your electronic coursepack notes and your lecture notes.
GRADING SCALE - A = 88-100 B = 76-87.9 C = 64-75.9 D
= 52-63.9 F = < 52
CLASSROOM and ATTENDANCE POLICY - Each student is expected to attend class and to show up for each class
on
time. Failure to do so will usually
result in very poor performance in the class. Students,
who show up for class late, must enter via the back door! Students are not allowed to leave class early
before the whole class is dismissed without permission from the
instructor. BOTTOM LINE POLICIES - THE 6 “NO’S” POLICY
- NO TALKING, NO TARDINESS, NO LEAVING
CLASS EARLY, NO CELL PHONES, IPODS, or
LAPTOP/NOTEBOOK COMPUTERS IN THE CLASSROOM IN THE “ON MODE”! Any Student, whose cell phone rings during class time will
be required to come to the front of the classroom and APOLOGIZE PROFUSELY to
the Instructor and Fellow Students! Any
Student, caught with his/her a Laptop/Notebook Computer or I-Pod turned on
during class time, will be dismissed from the class for the day. PRACTICE GOOD MANNERS AND THE