Important Notes:

• Any student who, because of a disabling condition may require some special arrangements to meet course requirements, should contact the instructor as soon as possible so that the necessary accomodations can be made. Proper documentation must be presented from the Dean of Students' Office.
• The faculty is strongly committed to upholding standards of academic integrity. These standards, at the minimum, require that students never present the work of others as their own.

Strategy for Success:

• Be prepared! Study your notes and read the text as well as other, appropriate materials before you come to class.
• Begin all homework assignments as soon as possible. The assigned problems take time and thought---never wait until the night before an assignment is due. These problems may be longer, if not necessarily harder, than any that you have been asked to do before. Thus, you will need to organize your work and make intermediate checks on the correctness of your solutions. Be sure to write down a description in words of what (and why) you are attempting a particular step in your solution. All of this takes time and can not be done well in a big hurry.
• Do your own work. Although you are free to discuss the homework with other members of the class, always try to think a problem through on your own before consulting reference material or a classmate. Do not "team up" on the homework by distributing a few problems to each member of the team. This is not an effective way to learn the material when you will be individually graded on quizzes and exams. You should always reference the work of others if you use it in a problem---this includes integral tables and computer packages.
• See your instructor if you are stuck---that's why they pay me the big bucks!

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