Detailed course policies are contained in the syllabus which was presented on the first day of classes.

Contact information

For content (i.e. math) questions, please post to our Piazza page. I will not answer content questions by email so everyone can benefit from everyone's questions. You can still sign up for Piazza even if you lost the email you received.

If you have a personal matter to discuss, the best way to contact me is via email at christelle dot vincent at you-know-where. Please use full grammatical sentences in your writing and be nice when asking for something.

Office Hours

My office hours are

I am also available by appointment; please send me an email to set it up.

All office hours take place in my office, 407 Henry Marcus Lord House.

Textbook

Our textbook is Calculus with Applications, eleventh edition, by Lial, Greenwell and Ritchey packaged with a MyMathLab Access Code. You must have access to MyMathLab to complete the homework, and MyMathLab access comes with an e-text. You do not need a paper copy of the book if you do not want it.

Here are detailed instructions to register for MyMathLab, including the course code you will need to sign up for our class.

Quizzes

Only your top ten quizzes will count as part of your grade this semester. I anticipate giving approximately 25 in-class quizzes.

If you miss a quiz, you will get a score of zero, but that is okay because it will most likely get dropped. If you must miss so much class that you do not have ten quiz grades, please talk to me as soon as possible. There are never ever any make-up quizzes.

Every Wednesday there will be a more substantial in-class quiz.

Homework

Only your top fifteen homework will count as part of your grade this semester. I anticipate assigning approximately 30 homework sets.

Homework will be assigned on MyMathLab, and will be due at 7pm on the day of our next class meeting. Late homework will be accepted until the following exam, with a penalty of 1% per day (approximately 10% per week) on the questions that have not been answered yet.

For each homework you will see a "Practice" Homework and the real Homework. Only the real Homework is for credit, the other one is for practice.

Exams

There will be two in-class exams, tentatively on Wednesday, September 27 and Wednesday, November 8. The final exam is on December 15, from 7:30am to 10:15am, in Kalkin 001.

The exams will not be individually scaled or curved. However, your final grade in this class will be. What this means is that I have an idea of the distribution of As, Bs, Cs, Ds and Fs that is typical in this class. At the end of the semester, I will look at everyone's numerical grade, and assign numerical cut-offs to letter grades so that our grade distribution is what I want it to be.

My exams are hard and my averages are low. I am, however, a generous letter-grade giver.

Academic (dis)honesty

The UVM Code of Academic Integrity is in effect in this class as always. Please familiarize yourself with it if you haven't already.

Specifically, in this class you may work on assigned homework (which you turn in) with peers, but the work you turn in must be your own and reflect your own understanding of the material. All quizzes and exams must strictly and exclusively be your own work, and be completed without access to notes, books or any outside resources.

Suggested problems may be completed however you would like; I recommend working on them with peers but taking the time to look at your solutions on your own when you are done to make sure that you understand them.