Professor Hugh Robertson, Lecturer and
Overall Organization
417 Morrill Hall; 333-0489
Laboratory Coordinator: Patrick Halbig
Email: phalbig@illinois.edu
300 Natural History Building; 244-7350
office (voice-mail messages may be left anytime)
Hugh Robertson is reponsible for the overall running of the
course. He will give the lectures and manage the hourly exams and the final
exam. All questions related to exams should be directed to him. He also decides
the course letter grade break points at the end of the semester.
The Laboratory Coordinator, Patrick
Halbig, will manage the
laboratory, address questions related to lab teaching, quizzes, and lab
absences, and arrange make-up labs and make-up quizzes.
The lab TAs are graduate students in the Department of
Entomology or associated departments. They teach the laboratories and grade the
lab quizzes. They also grade the genetics assignment.
The prep staff prepare and maintain the laboratory, and manage
the lab equipment and materials used during a lab.
The ADD deadline is Friday, 4 September. The SECTION
CHANGE deadline is also Friday, 4
September. The DROP deadline is
Monday, 19 October. All changes are made by UI Integrate. The CREDIT/NO
CREDIT deadline is also Monday, 19
October. To elect the CREDIT/NO CREDIT option, apply at your College Office.
To drop the course after the drop
deadline, students must obtain a petition in their college office and bring
petitions to Professor Robertson for completion of attendance and grade
records. Course policy is to allow such drops -- but deans often disagree!
The following is a list of items required
for IB 104. Please pay careful attention to dates and editions when purchasing
these items.
Required
Recommended
|
Hourly
Exam I* |
50 |
|
Hourly
Exam II* |
50 |
|
Hourly
Exam III* |
50 |
|
Laboratory
Quizzes (3 @ 30 points)** |
90 |
|
Genetics
Homework Assignment |
30 |
|
Lab
Participation |
30 |
|
Final
Exam*** |
100 |
|
|
|
|
TOTAL |
400 |
*Each exam will cover both lecture
material and lab material. See the Laboratory and Lecture Syllabus for the lab
material covered on each exam.
**A total of 4 quizzes will be
administered, and the highest 3 scores will count.
***The final exam will cover all lecture
material, comprehensively, and Laboratory Exercises 10-12. There is no
comprehensive laboratory final.
Professor Robertson will decide the final
letter grade "cutoffs" at the end of the semester, after the
final exam. He will use the
point totals rather than examining scores on individual exams and quizzes. This
means that all points earned during the semester are equivalent. Letter grade
estimates will be provided during the semester to help students evaluate their
performance. Pluses and minuses will be used in final grading.
Students may view their grades in this
course by either signing in to the course Web site and following the
instructions from there, or by going directly to the course gradebook on the
World Wide Web at
Students are responsible for checking
their own scores in the Course Gradebook. This is important, because this is
the ONLY record we keep of your point totals. We use this information to assign
your final grade. Report apparent gradebook entry errors to your TA, or the
Laboratory Coordinator. Students are urged to keep all graded quizzes and
homework until after the gradebook entry correction deadline, which is 5 PM Friday,
11 December.
Examinations
Exams
cover both lecture material and lab material. The lecture material to be covered
will be announced in lecture. The lab material covered is listed in the
Laboratory Syllabus.
|
Exam |
Date |
Time |
Location |
|
Exam
I |
Wednesday,
16 September |
7-9
PM |
To
be announced |
|
Exam
II |
Wednesday,
14 October |
7-9
PM |
To
be announced |
|
Exam
III |
Wednesday,
11 November |
7-9
PM |
To
be announced |
|
FINAL
EXAM |
Friday,
18 December |
8-11
AM |
To
be announced |
Schedule of Exams and Quizzes
All quizzes will be given at the beginning of the lab period and will
be worth 30 points each.
Lecture Exams are given in the evening; rooms for each exam are announced in lecture.
|
Lab
Week |
Dates |
Lab
Quiz |
Lecture
Exam (includes labs listed) |
|
1 |
31
August - 4 September |
--- |
--- |
|
-- |
7-11
September |
Labor
Day week: |
No
labs |
|
|
16
September |
|
EXAM
1 (lab 1) |
|
4 |
28
September – 2 October |
QUIZ
1 (Labs 1-3) |
--- |
|
6 |
14
October |
|
EXAM
2 (labs 2-5) |
|
7 |
19-23
October |
QUIZ
2 (Labs 4-6) |
--- |
|
9 |
2-6
November |
QUIZ
3 (Labs 7-8) |
|
|
10 |
11
November |
|
EXAM
3 (labs 6-9) |
|
11 |
16-20
November |
QUIZ
4 (Labs 9-10) |
--- |
|
--- |
18
December |
--- |
FINAL
EXAMINATION (lab 10-12) |
Genetics Assignment
The Genetics Assignment will be handed out
in laboratory the week of 16-20 November, and will be due in your laboratory
class the week of 30 November - 4 December. It will consist of a set of
problems based on lecture and lab material. You should complete this assignment
with the help of your textbook and the lab manual (and your TA, if necessary),
but your work should be your own. Your TA will collect your homework in lab.
Late homework will not be accepted unless an exception is granted by Patrick
Halbig.
When in doubt as to whether your situation
is a "conflict," always ask. E-mail requests to Professor Robertson
for conflicts are preferred, and should be made by 5 PM Monday the week
of a scheduled exam. Keep in mind that lab quizzes are much harder
(often impossible) for us to reschedule than exams, because the lab quizzes use
freshly prepared materials and microscope slides.