Creating a Syllabus. The quality of the syllabus is a fairly reliable indicator of the quality of teaching and learning that will take place in a course (Woolcock, 2003). Therefore, it behooves instructors to make the effort to construct a high-quality syllabus. The results of that effort can benefit the instructor as well as his or her students.
To contact DRES you may visit 1207 S. Oak St., Champaign, call 333-4603 (V/TTY), or e-mail a message to [email protected]." The guidelines above are specific to graduate courses. Additional information about syllabi is available from the Provost’s Office and the CITL offers resources that provide advice and information to help to create a well-organized syllabus .
McKinley Health Center:217-333-2700, 1109 South Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801. The syllabus page shows a table-oriented view of the course schedule, and the basics of course grading. You can add any other comments, notes, or thoughts you have about the course structure, course policies or anything else.
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If you have a question about an assignment or other course-related topic, please use the discussions section of Canvas. If you have a personal problem or grading issue, please contact the staff directly.
Below, you'll find the weighting of each grade category for the course.
Writing assignments will be distributed on a weekly basis on Fridays. They will be due the following Friday. Your submission will then be graded by course staff.
Discussion section is a time to explore the concepts discussed in the course more deeply. Your TA will conduct your discussion section. Your grade in discussion section depends entirely on your participation. Show up regularly and make a good faith effort to get involved and you'll pass this requirement with flying colors.
There will be a midterm and a final in this course. Both exams will consist of multiple choice questions and one essay questions and will be conducted on Canvas. A study guide with practice questions will be posted for both exams.
The textbook is not required, and previous editions will help supplement the class material.
The course grade is determined by lecture participation (lecture activities), discussion participation, online assignments, discussion homework, a group project, scores on the exams, and the score on the final, plus any extra credit earned by the student.
IB 150: This course covers biological processes over a broad range of spatial and temporal scales. The course is roughly divided into the following modules: physiology and anatomy; genetics; evolution, and integrative biology. There are three hours of lecture per week and one hour of discussion. The weekly discussion sections provide an opportunity for students to work with graduate teaching assistants (TAs) to improve mastery of the lecture topics through supplemental readings and class exercises.#N#Background information for the lectures and announcements will be available at the course web site. Lectures and discussions are coordinated, and both will be covered on the four in class exams and the cumulative final exam. The course grade is determined by lecture participation (lecture activities), discussion participation, online assignments, discussion homework, a group project, scores on the exams, and the score on the final, plus any extra credit earned by the student. IB 150 will use a plus/minus grading system.
There are three hours of lecture per week and one hour of discussion. The weekly discussion sections provide an opportunity for students to work with graduate teaching assistants (TAs) to improve mastery of the lecture topics through supplemental readings and class exercises.
To contact DRES, you may visit 1207 S. Oak St., Champaign, call 217-333-4603, e-mail [email protected] or go to the DRES website. Students who have obtained DRES accomodation letter are encouraged to arrange a personal meeting with the instructor to finalize the specific accomodations accordingly. DRES accommodated students can make plans for an alternative test duration for the midterms and the final through CBTF. You are encouraged to contact the instructor directly about other needs as well, the earlier the better.
This is a 3 credit hour course that lasts 16 weeks. The lectures and discussions will be offered through live Zoom meetings. Office hours will be offered through Zoom as well. All contents will be accessible on the Compass course site including lecture notes, lecture videos, discussion videos, quizzes, HW, team assignments and project, course helps, etc. Therefore you need to regularly log onto Compass course site to keep up with the course. Including attending the lectures and discussion/recitation per week, you should dedicate approximately 8 -12 hours per week to working on the course itself, but actual time commitments will vary depending on your input, needs, and personal study habits. For additional information about student commitment, please see the section activity tables for each week on Compass.
Extra points problems are optional problems given in homeworks and project. If the specific homework is dropped as a low scored homework, the extra points from that homework will not be counted either. Otherwise, the extra points a student received will be counted toward the final score of points. Extra points are also given for group work during discussion session and team review, office hour participation, meetings with the instructor and learning community service. Please read details of extra points on Compass.
Quizzes are formative assessments as check points for students to keep up with the course material. They will be in the format of multiple choice questions on Compass. Students are allowed to have access to the text book and lecture notes, but not other resources. In addition, no communication with other people is allowed. The instruction for each Quiz will be on Compass accordingly.
Midterm 2 will cover chapters 6 to 10 except 8. The final exam (~3 hours) will cover chapters 1 to 14 except 8. All exams will be open book and open lecture notes but the work should be individual, no discussions in any media or any format during the exam with any person other than the course staff are allowed.
Brush up or begin to learn essential Python programming before the semester. Brush up before the course your counting skills and set theory knowledge from your discrete math course. Brush up your linear algebra earlier than lecture 18.
That is: for a first offense for cheating, if it's on an exam the sanction is zero on the exam; if it's on a programming assignment, quiz, or written homework the sanction is zero on the assignment and final course grade is lowered by one whole letter grade (ie. from A to B ).
For most of our units, the required readings should take about 15-20 hours of your time. If you find yourself taking substantially more or less time to complete the readings for a particular unit, make a note of it. You will be asked to estimate your average reading time in the final questionnaire of the course.
A discourse oriented towards mutual understanding benefits from critical interactions (i.e., arguments), but it also depends upon exercises in verstehen, taking the perspective of another—whether friend or stranger, whether here with us now or known to us only through strange signs from alien times and places.
Student-Specific Texts: Students are also required to do some research: searching for, finding, reading (critically) and sharing/describing (and criticizing as appropriate) texts relevant to topics of particular interest to each student. Reading Schedule: Here is a listing of the (common) readings by unit.
Rather than having a quiz due on the same day each week, for example our quizzes are due on various days, but usually about four days apart. The same pattern (or apparent lack of pattern) holds for other activities, too. Students are encouraged to make good use of their calendars and plan each dayof the term.
If a student reads and studies carefully before taking quizzes, there is no reason not to score highly on them. Most students will not score higher than a B-average on several of their writing assignments. The difference between a 'B' and an 'A' is not a matter of following the rules differently.
Looking up my schedule (times and locations) takes too long. Logging into self service / banner takes a lot of clicks. Adding my schedule to my calendar isn't possible because my class schedule isn't finalized during the first week of classes.
I’ve been here at UIUC for several years and trust me I love how nice the people can be. But- to everyone who is new on campus and really isn’t familiar, just remember to have common courtesy with others. Let people sit down on the bus. Let people walk through on the bus or a building when they say excuse me.