Department of Mathematical Sciences			Fall 2000
Carnegie Mellon University

21-121  Calculus 1 (IM/Econ)			MWF 12:30,  MM 103

Instructor: 	Prof. William Hrusa
		Office:  WeH 7206
		Phone:  8-8487  (messages at 8-2545)
		e-mail:  wh15@andrew.cmu.edu
		Office Hours: M 3:30 - 4:20, W 3:30 - 4:50, Th 10:30 - 12:00

Textbook: Calculus, Early Transcendentals, J. Stewart (4th  Edition), Brooks/Cole

Approximate Course Content: Introduction, Chapters 1 - 6, Section 7.1, Supplementary material concerning applications to business and economics.

Exams:  There will be 4 one-hour exams during the semester and a final exam. The exams will be closed-book and closed-notes.  Make-up exams will be given only in the case of a documented medical excuse, a university-sanctioned absence (e.g., participation in a varsity sporting event), or an "emergency".  Permission to miss an exam should be obtained from the instructor (not from the TA) prior to the exam, if possible.  Make-up exams may be oral.  Your lowest score on the hour-exams will be dropped.  The final exam will administered during the regularly scheduled the 3-hour exam period for this course.

Homework:  Homework will be assigned every Friday during lecture.  The assignment will be collected in recitation on the following Thursday.  Problems marked with an asterisk will be collected and graded; the others will be discussed, but need not be turned in.  The homework is an essential part of the learning process.  You are strongly advised to attempt all of the homework problems as well as some additional problems of your own choice.  Although homework does not count for a fixed percentage of your course grade, homework performance will be used as the deciding factor in certain borderline situations. 

Recitation:  In addition to the lectures, each student has been assigned to a recitation section that will meet twice per week.  These sections provide an opportunity to discuss material relevant to the course in a smaller, more informal, setting.  Recitations will be used to provide an opportunity to ask additional questions about material from lecture as well as background material, to give additional examples relevant to lecture, to collect, return, and discuss homework, to return and discuss tests, and occasionally to introduce new material that does not fit conveniently into lecture.










Grades:  Course grades will be determined as follows:
 		60% - average of 3 best hour-exams
		40% - final exam
(If your lowest score on the hour-exams is higher than your score on the final, I will count the average of all 4 hour-exams for 80% of your grade and the final for 20%.)  No scores will be dropped for determining midsemester grades.  In borderline cases, your homework grades will be taken into account.  A good record on the homework will be used to raise your course grade if you fall a little bit below one of the cutoffs.  This policy will be explained more explicitly in lecture. 

Syllabus:  I do not plan to hand out a lecture-by-lecture syllabus at the beginning of the semester, because this will limit our flexibility, especially with regard to time spent on applications to business and economics. Instead the expected lecture coverage for the following week will be listed at the bottom of each homework assignment.  Homework assignments and important announcements will be available electronically (either through a web site or an Andrew bulletin board).  The address will be announced shortly.

Important Remark:  The last day of final exams this semester is December 21.  It is not possible to take the final exam early in order to accommodate travel plans.  If possible, please do not make any end-of-the-semester travel plans before the final exam schedule is announced by enrollment services.  If you must make your plans before the exam schedule is announced, you should not plan to leave campus before the evening of December 21.