Geology 100 
General Course Information 
Spring 2002

Lectures

All lectures meet in Room 228 NHB. Attend the section in which you are scheduled.

Instructor

Planet Earth is taught by Prof. Steve Altaner
255 NHB 244-1244 e-mail: altaner@uiuc.edu

Office hours: Mon. 2 - 3; Fri. 10 - 11; or by appointment

General Information (Web sites, bulletin board, Campus Gradebook)

There is information about GEOL 100 (exam dates + times, exam locations, exam coverage, discussion schedule, etc.) at the GEOL 100 Web site <http://ijolite.geology.uiuc.edu/02SprgClass/geo100/> and at the GEOL 100 bulletin board in the west NHB hallway outside the lecture room. The GEOL 100 Web site also contains summaries of lecture notes and Internet links to geologic topics. The publisher of our lecture textbook has a Web site with numerous review exercises and Internet links to geologic topics at <http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/lutgens2/> Student grades are available through Campus Gradebook, an electronic gradebook accessible over the campus network or the Web. Check your scores regularly to ensure our records agree with yours and report any differences to your TA immediately.
 
 
 

Textbooks

 Lecture:  Essentials of Geology (7th edition) by Lutgens & Tarbuck (2000)
   and enclosed CD-ROM GEODe II by Tasa, Tarbuck, Lutgens (1999)
Discussion
Planet Earth Discussion Guide (8th edition) by  Marshak, Long, Herrstrom, Altaner (2001)

One copy of each book is on reserve in the Geology library (223 NHB).

Exams

There are two hourly exams and a comprehensive final exam, which covers material from the entire semester. Exam format is multiple choice, true-false, and matching. Exam questions will cover lecture and discussion material. Students should read assigned textbook and CD-ROM materials because they will reinforce lecture notes (and improve your exam score), however, only the topics covered in lecture and discussion will be on exams except fro some terms given at the begiining of the lecture on minerals).
BRING A PHOTO ID TO ALL EXAMS. Because one hourly exam is held in the evening, one class hour of discussion has been canceled in accord with University rules. Make-up exams are provided to students with valid excuses. Contact Prof. Altaner before the exam date to arrange a make-up exam. The format for make-up exams is short-answer questions, which are of similar difficulty as regularly scheduled exams.
 

Grade Basis

Hourly #1 = 20%; Hourly #2 = 20%; Final Exam = 33%; Discussion = 27%

The plus/minus grading system will be used in Geology 100 with approximate cut-offs at the following representative values: B+ 86.67 - 89.99,  B 83.33 - 86.66, B- 80.00 -83.32, etc.

Cheating

Cheating of any kind is not be tolerated. Examples of cheating include (but are not limited to): using a discussion exercise or homework sheet from a previous semester as a basis for completing your own sheet, removing an exam from the examination room, describing exam questions to someone who has not taken it yet, having someone else substitute for you in an exam, looking at notes during an exam, and giving or receiving aid of any kind during an exam. If you have any questions about what constitutes cheating or if you have observed someone cheating, talk to an instructor.
 

General Education

GEOL 100 satisfies the general education requirement in physical sciences.

Disability Accommodation

To obtain disability-related academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids, students with disabilities must contact the course instructor and the Division of Rehabilitation-Education Services (DRES) as soon as possible. To contact DRES you may visit at 1207 S. Oak St., Champaign, call 333-4602 (V/TDD), or email a message to Judith Kincaid at <jkincaid@uiuc.edu>. The DRES WWW address is (http://www.als.uiuc.edu/dres/).

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Please report any problems to Ann Long