CALCULUS 1
1) Semester: Fall 2021
2) Course ID: MAC 2311 / CRN 84598
3) Course Credit Hours: 4
4) Meeting Times: asynchronous virtual
5) Meeting Location: on-line
6) Required Textbook: Eighteen week student access for MyMathLab with eText for Hass/Heil/Weir, Thomas' Calculus with Early Transcendentals, 14th edition. ISBN is 978-0135901403. Best deal is on the Pearson website for about $70. The Library has a limited number of hardcopies of the Thomas text on reserve.
7) Suggested Supplementary text: Stewart, Calculus with Early Transcendentals, 8th edition.
8) SLO: primarily "problem-solving abilities"
9) Course description: Introduction to the primary concepts and techniques of differential and integral calculus. Topics include limits and continuity, the derivative, differentiation and integration of algebraic and trigonometric functions, linearization of functions, Mean Value theorem, antidifferentiation, extrema and curve sketching, area and the definite integral, and the fundamental theorem.
10) Prerequisite(s): per catalogue
11) Meets the General Education Program Intercultural Knowledge requirement for mathematics.
12) Meets the College Level Academic Skills requirement for mathematics
13) All homework and exams will be done via MyMathLab with submissions due at midnight on the original Tuesday/Thursday meeting dates for the class. You will have several days to work on each homework assignment prior to its due date, but the exams will be available for only a short time before their due dates. These dates are summarized for you on the homework and exam schedule page. There will be five exams at natural breakpoints in the material, all the exams are equally weighted at 12% of the final grade each. The exams will not be intentionally cumulative, but a reasonable understanding of prior material is necessary (as in any math class). That leaves 40% for the homework assignments, also all equally weighted.
There is a welcome video and a reading assignment in the eText for Day One. All other dates require activity on MyMathLab, as well as reading the eText and viewing the short lecture videos. Transcripts of the lecture videos will be published with links from the video lecture page. Although this course is asynchronous, the assignments and exams are built around a Tuesday/Thursday informal schedule. We will not be using Canvas for any purpose other than the initial Financial Aid Attendance verification. The course page in Canvas will be inactive..no assignments, grades, announcements, or communications. The entire course will be run thru the website www.thomasbeatty.com and the MyMathLab (Pearson) website.