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HISTORY 7B
U.S. HISTORY: CIVIL WAR TO THE PRESENT
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
Spring 2019
 (Also available online at bCourses.berkeley.edu)
Prof. Rebecca McLennan
Head GSI: Chase Arnold

This course is an introduction to the history of the United States between 1865 and the present. Although we
will touch on many different subjects, we will stress three, interrelated stories. The first concerns the nation’s
historic social, cultural, religious, ethno-racial diversity, including changing conceptions of “difference:” we
will explore some of the ways in which diverse communities of Euro-Americans, African Americans, Chinese
Americans, Latinx, Native Americans, immigrants, workers, and élites experienced, responded to, initiated,
and represented key moments and movements of American history. We will also trace the rise and fall of
various ideologies of “race” and racial and ethnic identity that have shaped American politics, culture, and
everyday life. The second major theme is the ascent and decline of industrial capitalism, including the major
environmental, political, and cultural effects of the nation’s transition from, first, an agrarian to an industrial,
consumer society, and, second, from an industrial to a post-industrial consumer society. The reinvention of
government and of Americans’ ideas and expectations of what government is and should—or shouldn’t—do is
our third major theme. Throughout the course we will be attentive to the question of “who or what makes
American history”? Elites? Ordinary folk? Nature and natural forces? Technological innovation? Social
conflict? Governments? Individuals? Collective aspirations? Lectures, readings, sections discussions, and
written assignments will address parts of these stories while also aiming to sharpen your critical reading,
interpretation, discussion, argumentation, and writing skills.

Sections: Attendance and participation in all sections are compulsory, and instructors will take attendance. In
this course, sections—and Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs)—are as important as lectures and the professor.
The professor mostly does not discuss the readings in lecture: your section is the place where you’ll do this. In
section, you’ll get to explore more deeply some of the various issues that we’ve only been able to touch on
briefly in lectures, or have been unable to cover at all. You’ll be reading and discussing a diverse range of
published works of history as well as digging into some really exciting primary sources (i.e. speeches, letters,
cartoons, political propaganda, short films, and other artefacts created in the past). It’s also where your GSI
and fellow students will help you learn or refine important skills, such as how to interpret evidence
meaningfully and in a historically-informed way; how to analyze and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of
works of history; how to write a persuasive essay; and how to mount a logical, evidence-based argument.

Requirements and grading:
Attendance and participation: You must attend lectures and section meetings (attendance will be taken at
sections); complete readings when assigned; and participate actively in all section discussions. Please note that,
in most cases, the readings and discussions generally supplement rather than repeat the lecture material, and
sometimes diverge from it.
Section attendance and participation (required): 10%
Contact your section leader in advance if you need to be excused from section. Students may be
excused for documentable medical, family, or other emergency. If you have more than two
unexcused absences, you may fail the course.
Two brief in-class tests (I.D.s): 15% each
Two brief essays on select primary sources: 15% each
Final exam: 30%

Late policy: No extensions on papers unless you have a documentable medical, family, or other emergency.
Unexcused late papers will be penalized 1/3 grade, no exceptions (i.e. the paper will be awarded an A- if it is
of A quality, B+ if it is of A- quality, etc). Papers will not be accepted more than a week after the due date.

Required reading: you must borrow, buy, rent, or otherwise acquire electronic or hard copies of the following
texts. You must also bring the relevant texts to section (you will be directly working on them).

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Required Books
D. Henkin and R. McLennan, Becoming America, Volume 2 (McGraw-Hill), available for rental in
electronic version (ISBN: 9781260233605) or in paperback (ISBN 9781260878783).
Elliott West, The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story
C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Kevin Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Donald Worster, Dustbowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s
Allan Berubé, Coming Out Under Fire
Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi; The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and
Black in the Rural South
Jefferson Cowie, Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Required Course Reader: Will be available 1/25/19

Office Hours:
Professor Rebecca McLennan: Tuesdays, 1:30-3:30pm, 2224 Dwinelle
Head GSI, Chase Arnold (administrative questions): Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:30-2:30pm, 2104 Dwinelle
GSIs: Your GSIs will post their office hours independently

LECTURE SCHEDULE AND MAJOR ASSIGNMENTS
Please note that the reading schedule for sections is NOT included here. See Section Schedule. Please
complete assigned reading in time for that day’s class.

Week 1
Tues Jan 22:  Introduction and Background
Thurs Jan 24: Reinventing Government: Emancipation, Southern Reconstruction, and Multiracial Democracy

David Henkin and Rebecca McLennan, Becoming America, Chap. 16 (pp. 415-431; 434-442).

Week 2
Tues Jan 29: Entangled Histories: Death of Southern Reconstruction, Western Conquest and Incorporation
Becoming America, Chap. 17 (pp.444-458).
Thurs Jan 31: From Plains Wars to Boomtown, U.S.A,: Bonanzas, Fevers, and Busts

Becoming America, Chapter 17 (pp.458-466).

Week 3
Tues Feb 5: Labor, Immigration, and Chinese Exclusion

Becoming America (pp.466-467).
Thurs. Feb 7: Oil, Steel, and Meat: Big Business and Its Discontents

Becoming America, Chap. 18 (pp.472-488)

Week 4
Tues Feb 12: Cheap Nature, Pristine Nature: Industrialization and the Natural and Built Environments

Becoming America, Chap. 18 (pp.495-498).
Thurs Feb 14: Commerce of Desire: Cities and the Making of Mass Consumer Culture

Becoming America, Chap. 18 (pp.488-495).

Week 5
Tues Feb 19: FIRST IN-CLASS EXAM (I.Ds).
Thurs Feb 21: Mass Politics and Mass Discontent, 1870-1892

Becoming America, Chap. 19 (pp.501-523).

Week 6
Tues Feb 26: Populism, Race, and the Collapse of Gilded Age Politics

Becoming America, Chap. 19 (523-530).
Thurs Feb 28:  Jim Crow and “the Problem of the Color Line” (Du Bois)

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C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow (Chapter 3).

Week 7:
Tues March 5:  An Urban Age: America in the Progressive Era

Becoming America, Chap. 20 (pp. 534-549, 554-557).
Thurs March 7:  The Spanish-American-Filipino-Cuban War: Race, Progressivism, America’s Empire of
Islands

Becoming America, Chap. 21 (pp.574-588).

Week 8: (FIRST SHORT ESSAY DUE IN FIRST SECTION).
Tues March 12: Great Power America: From New Imperial Power to Great War Ally

Becoming America, Chap. 22 (pp.598-611).
Thurs March 14: The Crisis of 1919 and the Jazz Age

Becoming America, Chap. 23 (pp.628-646).

Week 9
Tues March 19: Closing the Gates: Immigration, Nativism, and Race in the 1920s
Becoming America, Chap. 24 (pp. 662-666).
Thurs March 21 The Great Depression and First New Deal
Becoming America, Chap. 24 (pp. 667-681).

Week 10 SPRING BREAK

Week 11
Tues April 2: SECOND IN-CLASS EXAM
Thurs Apr 4: Ending the Depression: The Second New Deal and WWII
Becoming America, Chap. 25 (pp.693-714, 721-22).

Week 12
Tues April 9: The Freedom Movement and the “Age of Affluence:”
Becoming America, Chap. 27 (pp.741-746, 757-765, 777-784.)
Thurs April 11: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Road to Vietnam
Becoming America, Chap. 28 (pp.787-810).

Week 13
Tues April 16: ’68

Becoming America, Chap. 28 (pp.810- 818).
Thurs April 18: Sex, Gender, and Sexual Revolution

Becoming America, Chap. 28 (811-814 [recap]) and Chap. 29, 826-829.

Week 14: SECOND SHORT ESSAY DUE TO YOUR GSI, FRIDAY April 26, 5PM
Tues April 23: A New Age of Anxiety: American Culture and Politics in the 1970s

Becoming America, Chap. 29 (pp.821-843).
Thurs. April 25: Sage Brush Rebels, Suburban Conservatives, and Friedmanite Thinktanks: The Reagan Years
and the Rise of Neoliberalism

Becoming America, Chap. 30 (pp.852-867).

Week 15
Tues April 30: Neoliberal America and Its Discontents, 1992 – 2008

Becoming America, Chap. 31 (pp. 883-905).
Thurs May 2: Beginning of the End or End of the Beginning? Hope, Fear, and Mourning in America Since the
Great Recession

Becoming America, Chap. 31 (pp. 905-911).

Final Exam: Thursday, May 16, 2019, 8-11am

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Miscellaneous Rules for Lecture and Sections:
• Cell phones should be turned off.
• No audio or video recording is permitted without express permission of instructor.
• You may take notes on a computer, but note that access to electrical outlets is limited.
• No internet surfing (etc)! Because it’s very distracting for those around you, if you use an electronic device
for non-class activities, your GSI will ask you to leave the classroom. No exceptions. :)

Campus Policies
1. Academic Honesty and Honor Code. Cheating and plagiarism include (but are not limited to) presenting
someone else’s work as one’s own, failing to properly identify the original sources used in your work, and
using unauthorized material, including cell phones or prewritten notes, during an exam. The penalty for
a first offense is an “F” on the assignment/test. A second offense will result in an “F” for the course and/or
further University action. You are encouraged to review and study course materials with fellow students,
but you must complete assignments independently. For more information on academic integrity and the
UC Berkeley Honor Code, refer to this website: www.asuc.org/honorcode/.
2. Religious Accommodation. Requests to accommodate a student's religious creed by rescheduling exams
are to be submitted to your GSI by the second week of the semester. See
http://registrar.berkeley.edu/DisplayMedia.aspx?ID=Religious%20Creed%20Policy.pdf.
3. Extracurricular Activity Conflicts. Notify your GSI by the second week of the semester of any potential
scheduling conflicts and recommend a solution, understanding that an earlier deadline or exam date may
be the most practical solution. You must also inform yourself about material missed because of an
absence, whether or not you have been formally excused.

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            Fall

              2003

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The study_plan value must be a JSON array of objects, one per syllabus section region, each with section_heading (string) and the same list-of-strings fields as the top level (course_codes, readings, assignments, due_dates, course_dates, concepts, grading_weights, instructors, emails), grouping items that fall under that section.

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Syllabus, Communication 1101
The History of Communication
Fall 2023
Online
Instructor and Contacts:

Melissa Foster, PhD
Email:  foster.1182@osu.edu (remember it’s osu.edu, not buckeyemail)
Office hours: Please email me to set up an appointment to do office hours via Zoom. Questions
or concerns that are personal in nature and can’t be posted on the discussion board should be
addressed during office hours. Please do not email questions that are answered in the syllabus or
on Carmen. Email should be reserved for setting up office hours, be sure to include the class
you’re in and what you’d like to discuss.

Teaching Assistants:  Please contact the TAs if you have read their comments on your exam
questions but have questions remaining about the grade. Rather than reply within the grade tab in
Carmen (which doesn’t have the functionality to notify us that you’ve posted a comment), be
sure to email your question. The TA that is grading your work is based on the first letter of your
last name (see below). TAs can only answer questions about assignments they graded; they do
not have office hours in this class.
If your last name starts with A through K, your TA is Kriselle Bellini (bellini.11@osu.edu)
If your last name starts with L through Z, your TA is Gwen Wojtkun (wojtkun.4@osu.edu)

C-REP:  Please contact the C-REP coordinator if you have any questions about C-REP,
Jessica Ryu: ryu.205@buckeyemail.osu.edu

Discussion Boards: If you have questions about lecture materials or upcoming assignments,
please post these on the class discussion boards (see Carmen Introduction video in Module 1). Be
sure to follow along with the discussion boards through the semester.

IT Service Desk: 614-688-HELP (4357) If you have problems relevant to technology (e.g. issues with
your laptop or software), please call the IT Service Desk. You can also visit the IT Service Desk Website

Your Question is About…
Who/How to Contact
Upcoming Assignments
Dr. Foster via Discussion Boards in Carmen or office hours
Lecture Materials
Dr. Foster via Discussion Boards in Carmen or office hours
Personal Concerns
Email Dr. Foster to schedule office hours
Graded Assignments
Email the TA after reading their feedback
C-REP
Email Jessica Ryu at ryu.205@buckeyemail.osu.edu

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Technical Issues (software, hardware, Carmen
support, etc.)
Call the IT Service Desk at 614-688-4357

Course Overview:

            This course will be delivered 100% online and asynchronous with weekly due dates and
provides a brief overview of the history of human communication. We’ll focus primarily on
more recent history (the last couple of hundred years) but will begin with the earliest known
communication artifacts and progress rapidly from there.
Most of what we will cover is in the realm of mass communication. We will explore how
communication changed as society changed, and the role of communication in producing social
changes of various sorts. Importantly, we will be making connections between issues and events
from the past to the world we are living in today.
You’ll be responsible for material covered in the lecture or in assigned readings from the
text (see below) as well as additional visual material (movies, radio programs, etc.).
Course Objectives:

Communication COMM 1101 is a GEC course in Category 2, Breadth, B. Social Science,
subcategory (1) Individuals and Groups. Courses in social science help students understand
human behavior and cognition, and the structures of human societies, cultures and institutions.
Courses that fulfill this requirement have the following learning objectives:

1.Students understand the theories and methods of social scientific inquiry as they apply
to the study of individuals and groups.

2.Students understand the behavior of individuals, differences and similarities in social
and cultural contexts of human existence, and the processes by which groups function.

3.Students comprehend and assess individual and group values and their importance in
social problem solving and policy making.

Meeting Course Objectives:

1. To provide you with an introduction to the history of communication.
◾Via lecture materials tracing the known history
◾Through reading materials focusing on human communication history
◾Through examination of major mass communication mediums and how they interrelate

2. To introduce you to the theory and methods of understanding history.

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◾Through a lecture covering some of the important theories and methods of how we can
understand what has happened before
◾Through practice in doing your own historical research
◾Through writing summaries of the results of your own research
◾Through providing illustrative examples of these approaches throughout our
examination of media history

3. To explore the ways in which media presentations may have different impacts for
differing ethnic or racial groups and the interplay between societal/cultural values and
media content.
◾By examining historical media content within the social norm context in which it
evolved
◾Through an example overview of the early African American cinema and ideas of in-
group and out-group behavior
◾By examining the relationship between African American portrayals in media content,
producers’ goals, and audience members’ reactions

 4. To develop your ability to comprehend and assess individual and group values as
reflected in media content history, and to recognize their importance in social problem
solving and policy making.
◾By examining the development and differences in media regulation and policy
◾By exploring the relationship between violent behavior and media content
◾By studying the role of free speech in relation to media effects

Credit hour and work expectation
This is a 3-credit-hour course. According to Ohio State policy, students should expect around 3 hours per
week of time spent on direct instruction (instructor content and Carmen activities, for example) in
addition to 6 hours of homework (reading and assignment preparation, for example) to receive a grade
of (C) average. ASC Honors provides an excellent guide to scheduling and study expectations.

Course Technology:
For help with your password, university e-mail, Carmen, or any other technology issues, questions, or
requests, contact the OSU IT Service Desk. Standard support hours are available
at https://ocio.osu.edu/help/hours, and support for urgent issues is available 24x7.
• Carmen:
o Carmen, Ohio State’s Learning Management System, will be used to host
materials and activities throughout this course. To access Carmen, visit
Carmen.osu.edu.  Log in to Carmen using your name.# and password. If you
have not setup a name.# and password, visit my.osu.edu.

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o Help guides on the use of Carmen can be found at
https://resourcecenter.odee.osu.edu/carmen
o This online course requires use of Carmen (Ohio State's learning
management system) and other online communication and
multimedia tools. If you need additional services to use these
technologies, please request accommodations with your instructor.
▪  Carmen accessibility
•
Zoom:
o Office hours will be held through Ohio State’s conferencing platform, Zoom. If
you set up an appointment for office hours, I will email you a link to the Zoom
meeting.
o Students may use the audio and video functions if a webcam and microphone
are available. If not, there is still a chat function available.
o Carmen Zoom help guide
• Turnitin:
o Students at The Ohio State University are accountable for the integrity of the
work they submit. Therefore, you should be familiar with the guidelines provided
by the Committee on Academic Misconduct (COAM) and Section A of OSU's
Code of Student Conduct in order to meet the academic expectations
concerning appropriate documentation of sources. In addition, OSU has made
Turnitin, a learning tool and plagiarism prevention system, available to
instructors. For this class, you will submit your papers to Turnitin from Carmen.
When grading your work, I will interpret the originality report, following Section
A of OSU's Code of Student Conduct as appropriate. For more information
about Turnitin, please see the vendor's guide for students. Note that submitted
final papers become part of the OSU database.
• BuckeyePass: a mobile device (smartphone or tablet) to use for authentication
• Microsoft Office 365: All Ohio State students are eligible for free Microsoft Office 365.
Visit the installing Office 365 (go.osu.edu/office365help) help article for full instructions.
• Self-Service and Chat support: http://ocio.osu.edu/selfservice
• Phone: 614-688-HELP (4357)
• Email: 8help@osu.edu
• https://it.osu.edu/students#tech-access
Baseline technical skills necessary for online courses
• Basic computer and web-browsing skills
• Navigating Carmen (go.osu.edu/canvasstudent)

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Necessary equipment
• Computer: current Mac (OS X) or PC (Windows 7+) with high-speed internet connection
• Web cam and microphone
Necessary software
• Word processor with the ability to save files under .doc, .docx, or .pdf. Most popular
word processing software programs including Microsoft Word and Mac Pages have
these abilities.
• OSU students have access to Microsoft Office products free of charge. To install, please
visit https://osuitsm.service-now.com/selfservice/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=kb04733
Course Requirements:
Textbook:
Kovarik, B. Revolutions in communication:  Media history from Gutenberg to the digital age (2nd
Edition). Bloomsbury. (pdf’s are available on Carmen, so you do not need to buy the book unless
you prefer it over the pdf’s)

Assignments and Exams:
Coursework includes weekly quizzes (online and timed, generally multiple-choice and T/F style
questions, with about 5 to 10 questions per quiz, questions randomly pulled from pools for each
topic so that your quiz may have different questions than another student, but they cover the
same concepts), weekly exam questions (online, short answer essays), and C-REP participation.
For quizzes, you may use your own notes, but you may not use any other sources. We will have
1000 points possible in the class as follows:

Requirement
Points/Percent of Final Grade
Quizzes
400 (13 quizzes in total, the lowest 3 scores are dropped,
so the 10 that are kept are worth 40 points each)
Exam Questions
550 (6 questions in total, the lowest score is dropped, so
the 5 that are kept are worth 110 points each)
C-REP
50
Total Points
1000
 * Please read the student guide for information on C-REP.

Letter Grade
 Percent
A
93-100
A-
90-92.9
B+
87-89.9
B
83-86.9

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B-
80-82.9
C+
77-79.9
C
73-76.9
C-
70-72.9
D+
67-69.9
D
60-66.9
Failing
0-59.9
Please note:  Carmen Canvas, OSU’s class management software, does not round fractions up. I
don’t round up individual grades, no matter how close, because it’s not fair to others.
Carmen has different settings for viewing grades. There is a setting in which assignments that are
not completed are counted as a “zero” and a setting in which incomplete assignments are not yet
counted in the final grade. If you are calculating your grade through the semester, make sure you
are factoring in any assignments you failed to turn in on time as a “zero”.
Assignments:
Please keep track of when things are due. I recommend signing up for email notifications for
when there are announcements and discussion posts on Carmen.
Late work:  Late work will rarely be accepted in this class. The assignments are provided well
in advance and many of the lowest scores will be dropped for your final grade. Please recall that
the due dates are not the goal for turning in assignments. Rather, the due dates are the last chance
to turn them in. I recommend turning work in well in advance of

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The study_plan value must be a JSON array of objects, one per syllabus section region, each with section_heading (string) and the same list-of-strings fields as the top level (course_codes, readings, assignments, due_dates, course_dates, concepts, grading_weights, instructors, emails), grouping items that fall under that section.

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M 408C: Differential and Integral Calculus

Course Format: Online, Self‐Paced
Course Author: Amanda Hager, Ph.D.
Course Instructor: Jillian Fisher, M.S. Contact using the Inbox tool in Canvas.
Course Credits: 4
Prerequisites: An appropriate score on the mathematics placement exam or Mathematics 305G with a
grade of at least B‐. Students must have the approval of the University Extension advisor to enroll in this
course.
Skills and Experience Flag: Quantitative Reasoning
How This Course Works
This course is online and is self‐paced. Students have five months from their date of enrollment to
complete the course. All coursework and proctored exams are submitted or taken online.

While this course is self‐paced in terms of when you complete the work and submit assignments,
periodic assessments are critical to ensuring that students receive adequate support and are able to
achieve the intended learning outcomes. Thus, this course is organized into modules that must be
completed in order. Students will only be able to move forward once they have received a grade on all
assessments within a given module.

Review the course outline and assignment descriptions carefully. Computer‐graded assignments are
scored immediately. You can expect to receive feedback on instructor‐graded assignments or exams
within three business days following submission. This does not include weekends or holidays. Requests
for expedited grading are not accommodated, so please plan accordingly. During certain times (end of
semester, spring break, etc.), instructors may experience higher‐than‐usual demands on their time and
may need additional time for evaluation. Students should reach out to University Extension at
uex@austin.utexas.edu with any concerns regarding grading turnaround.

University Extension strongly advises students to be aware of when they may need a course grade to be
recorded on their transcript. It can take up to two weeks after the final exam is complete for a grade to
be officially recorded with the Office of the Registrar.

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Course Overview
M408C is UT’s standard first‐year calculus course. It is directed at students in the natural and social
sciences and at engineering students. The emphasis in this course is on problem solving, not on the
presentation of theoretical considerations. While the course necessarily includes some discussion of
theoretical notions, its primary objective is not the production of theorem‐provers. M408C includes
most of the elementary topics in the theory of real‐valued functions of a real variable: limits, continuity,
derivatives, maxima and minima, integration, area under a curve, volumes of revolution, trigonometric,
logarithmic and exponential functions and techniques of integration.
Required Materials
Required Text: Calculus Early Transcendentals, 8th edition. Stewart, J. Belmont, CA: Brooks Cole.
ISBN: 9781285741550.
You must also purchase a non‐refundable Quest subscription for this course.
Course Organization
There are four modules containing 12 lessons, each covering 2–3 sections of book content in this
course. There is also a midterm exam and a final exam. In each lesson you will find these sections:
objectives and reading assignment, Quest learning modules, computer‐graded Quest assignments,
homework hint videos, and instructor‐graded book homework assignments.
You must receive a grade on all assignments in a module before the next module will open.
Computer‐Graded Assignments
In each lesson you'll be asked to complete several Quest assignments. For each book section, there is a
Quest learning module, which is essentially a YouTube lecture with examples, and a Quest homework
assignment where you can practice lots of problems. All Quest items, whether they are learning
modules or homework assignments, will be lumped into one group in Canvas and will be worth 10% of
your course grade. Computer‐graded assignments may only be taken once.
Instructor‐Graded Assignments
There is one written homework assignment in each lesson. You can write or type up these assignments
in any way you wish, and your instructor will grade your homework and offer feedback through Canvas.
Exams
This course requires you to complete a midterm exam and a final exam. The midterm exam covers
material from the first six lessons and is worth 35% of your course grade. The final exam is
comprehensive, covering all 12 lessons, and is worth 40% of your course grade.
You must pass the final exam to pass the course.

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Course Outline
Module
Topics
Assessments
1
Lesson 1: Exponential Functions; Inverse Functions
and Logarithms
Computer‐Graded Assignment 1
Computer‐Graded Assignment 2
Computer‐Graded Assignment 3
Computer‐Graded Assignment 4
Computer‐Graded Assignment 5
Instructor‐Graded Assignment 6
Lesson 2: The Limit of a Function; Calculating
Limits Using the Limit Laws; Continuity
Computer‐Graded Assignment 7
Computer‐Graded Assignment 8
Computer‐Graded Assignment 9
Computer‐Graded Assignment 10
Computer‐Graded Assignment 11
Instructor‐Graded Assignment 12
Lesson 3: Limits at Infinity; Horizontal Asymptotes;
Derivatives and Rates of Change; The Derivative as
a Function
Computer‐Graded Assignment 13
Computer‐Graded Assignment 14
Computer‐Graded Assignment 15
Computer‐Graded Assignment 16
Computer‐Graded Assignment 17
Computer‐Graded Assignment 18
Instructor‐Graded Assignment 19
2
Lesson 4: Derivatives of Polynomials and
Exponential Functions; The Product and Quotient
Rules; Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions
Computer‐Graded Assignment 20
Computer‐Graded Assignment 21
Computer‐Graded Assignment 22
Computer‐Graded Assignment 23
Computer‐Graded Assignment 24
Instructor‐Graded Assignment 25
Lesson 5: The Chain Rule; Implicit Differentiation;
Derivatives of Logarithmic Functions
Computer‐Graded Assignment 26
Computer‐Graded Assignment 27
Computer‐Graded Assignment 28
Computer‐Graded Assignment 29
Computer‐Graded Assignment 30
Computer‐Graded Assignment 31
Instructor‐Graded Assignment 32
Lesson 6: Rates of Change in the Natural and
Social Sciences; Linear Approximations and
Differentials
Computer‐Graded Assignment 33
Computer‐Graded Assignment 34
Computer‐Graded Assignment 35
Computer‐Graded Assignment 36
Computer‐Graded Assignment 37
Instructor‐Graded Assignment 38
MIDTERM EXAM

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Module
Topics
Assessments
3
Lesson 7: Maximum and Minimum Values; The
Mean Value Theorem; How Derivatives Affect the
Shape of a Graph
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 39
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 40
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 41
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 42
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 43
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 44
 Instructor‐Graded Assignment 45
Lesson 8: Indeterminate Forms and l’Hospital’s
Rule; Optimization Problems
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 46
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 47
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 48
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 49
 Instructor‐Graded Assignment 50
Lesson 9: Newton’s Method; Antiderivatives
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 51
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 52
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 53
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 54
 Instructor‐Graded Assignment 55
4
Lesson 10: Areas and Distances; The Definite
Integral; The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 56
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 57
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 58
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 59
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 60
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 61
 Instructor‐Graded Assignment 62
Lesson 11: Indefinite Integrals and the Net Change
Theorem; The Substitution Rule
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 63
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 64
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 65
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 66
 Instructor‐Graded Assignment 67
Lesson 12: Areas Between Curves; Volumes
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 68
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 69
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 70
 Computer‐Graded Assignment 71
 Instructor‐Graded Assignment 72
FINAL EXAM

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Grade Calculation
Your final grade for the course will be calculated as follows:
12 Instructor‐Graded Assignments  15%
60 Computer‐Graded Assignments  10%
Midterm Exam
35%
Final Exam
40%
You must pass the final exam to pass the course. You must also earn an overall passing grade:
A     100‐93%   B+   89.9‐87%   C+   79.9‐77%   D+   69.9‐67%   F   59.9‐0%
A‐   92.9‐90%   B    86.9‐83%   C    76.9‐73%   D    66.9‐63%

    B‐    82.9‐80%   C‐    72.9‐70%   D‐    62.9‐60%

Getting Help
 Technical Support: uextechsupport@austin.utexas.edu
 For content questions or questions about assignment and grades, use the Inbox tool within Canvas
to contact the course instructor.
 For other questions (registration, transcripts, etc.), contact University Extension.
University Extension Policies
Full University Extension policies for self‐paced courses may be found on the University Extension
website.

Scholastic Dishonesty
Students in this course are expected to work independently, without direct supervision, and to conduct
themselves responsibly in accordance with that freedom. To obtain the greatest benefit from their
course work, and for the sake of everyone enrolled in our courses, students must demonstrate the
willingness to exercise self‐discipline, personal responsibility, and scholastic integrity.
We expect the course work and exams that you submit for course credit to be yours and yours alone.
Plagiarism and other forms of scholastic dishonesty are serious academic violations that will not be
tolerated. The penalties for scholastic dishonesty include the possibility of failure in the course.
Scholastic dishonesty in examinations will automatically result in a grade of F on the exam and an F in
the course.
University Extension Contact Information
uex@austin.utexas.edu
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Principles of Chemistry I · Fall 2016

Uniques: 49970 and 49975  · TTh in WEL 2.224

Instructor

Dr. Paul McCord

office hours / TTh 1:30pm - 2:30pm

office location / WEL 5.239 B

class email / <a href="mailto:Dr. McCord <mccord301@cm.utexas.edu>">mccord301@cm.utexas.edu

Teaching Assistants / Office Hours

Jimmy Wadman / Wed 2-3pm, WEL 3.140
email: <a href="mailto:Jimmy Wadman <jimmy.wadman@gmail.com>">jimmy.wadman@gmail.com

Albert Almanza / Mon 3-4pm, WEL 3.140
email:
<a href="mailto:Albert Almanza <insigzilla@yahoo.com>">insigzilla@yahoo.com

Eric Sikma / Mon 2-3pm, Wed 5-6pm, WEL 2.306
email:
<a href="mailto:Eric Sikma <eric.sikma@utexas.edu>">eric.sikma@utexas.edu

Chemistry Course Content

CH301 will cover the following subjects (chapters from our gchem site) in chemistry which will be delivered as four total units. Each unit of coverage will have an exam to go with it.

Unit 1 exam 1

1. Course Introduction What the course is about. The fundamentals of general chemistry which includes unit conversion, nomenclature, composition stoichiometry, and reaction stoichiometry.

2. Gases The gas state is an excellent starting point for learning about modeling and mathematical relationships of physical properties.

Unit 2 exam 2

3. Atomic Theory Our second unit is all about the atom including its structure and energetics.

4. Bonding Atoms combine via chemical bonds. As more atoms bond together molecules are created. Bonding theory allows us to predict properties and describe the behavior of these molecules.

Unit 3 exam 3

5. IMFs The interactions between molecules govern key physical properties. Categorizing intermolecular forces (IMFs) helps us define key behaviors of chemical substances and also govern the physical properties of solids and liquids.

Unit 4 exam 4

6. Thermodynamics
The final unit is a study of thermodynamics as it applies to specific substances, chemical reactions, and processes. Thermodynamics is the study of the energy requirements for all interactions both physical and chemical.

Resources Available to You for Free

OpenStax eBook: Rice University has dozens of open source eBooks that were created for teaching. Here is a link to their "Chemistry" eBook. Browse the table of contents to find the right chapters.

gchem website:  All of our course topics are covered via our online "gchem" website. The gchem site has chapters presented in the same order that we will cover them in class. Plus, in addition to the textual content, there are hundreds of videos available via throughout the chapters. Some videos are for "big picture" concepts while others are for specific problem solving skills. When you do learning exercises (LEs) in Canvas, you will being seeing the content of the gchem site. You can always browse it independent of Canvas.

Resources You Provide (purchase)

REEF Polling Software: We are using REEF software as our in-class response system. Each student will need to set up an account and have a smart device (phone, laptop, tablet, etc.). Instructions for setting up an account and registering are provided in another page here on Canvas. You will need to bring your device to each and every class in order to obtain points for the "REEF" portion of your grade. We have negotiated one free semester of REEF polling for you - do not pay for this service!

Scientific Calculator: We will only allow simple scientific calculators for our exams. No programmable or graphing calculators will be accepted. The TI-30xa is the best calculator for this job and is only about $10 dollars. Plan on using it for homework as well as your exams.

NEW!

Calculating your Overall Score

We will use FOUR averages plus your final exam score to calculate your overall score in the course. The averages are: Your best 3-exam average (drop lowest exam, Quest), your homework average (Canvas), your learning exercise average (Canvas), and REEF average (adjusted in Canvas). Your overall score will be calculated using the percentages shown below for each category. Both method 1 and 2 will be calculated and compared. The highest of the two methods will be your official overall score for the course.

Scores
method 1
method 2

3-exam average (best 3 of 4)
60 %
30 %

final exam
25 %
55 %

learning exercises (best 26 of 31)
5 %
5 %

homework (best 10 of 12)
5 %
5 %

REEF (adjusted on Canvas)
5 %
5 %

total
100 %
100 %

Grade Breaks

Course grades will be determined according to the following scale or cut-offs:

A
≥
93.00

A-
≥
90.00

B+
≥
87.00

B
≥
83.00

B-
≥
80.00

C+
≥
77.00

C
≥
73.00

C-
≥
70.00

D+
≥
67.00

D
≥
63.00

D-
≥
60.00

F
<
60.00

Your score is calculated to the nearest 1/100th - that's 2 places PAST the decimal. So the only digit that is rounded "up" is the 1/1000th's digit.

Spreadsheet for Calculating your Grade Dr. McCord provides a downloadable excel spreadsheet for you to use to easily calculate your grade using the percentages shown. You can change the scores to see what you must get to get the grade you want. This is most helpful when there is only one exam and the final exam still out to be taken.

Excel Spreadsheet to Calculate your Grade (Fall 2016 edition)

Exams

Four examinations will be given during class time on the assigned days. Please see the Canvas site for the calendar that has these exams placed. Each of the exams will be about 25 questions that are all multiple-choice questions. The number of choices of choices will vary anywhere from 2 up to 10 choices. Each student will turn in their exam copy and a bubblesheet (answer sheet) which will be scanned and graded. All scores on exams will be available on Quest (Quest is only used for exams and the grading of exams - there is no cost associated with Quest for this course).

Final Exam

The final exam WILL be comprehensive and mandatory. This means that all the material covered during the course will be on the exam. The final exam will be counted as 25% of your overall grade. The final exam schedule is set by the registrar's office and cannot be changed. ALL students will take the final exam - there are no exempt

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