Math 3201							Fall 1992
			MATH FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES II

TuTh 12:00-1:20 PSCI 216
Dr. Art Duval: 	office: Bell Hall 303 
		phone:  747-6846 (office)		
		        584-7792 (home; 9am-10pm only, please)
Office Hours: M-Th 2-3, or make an appointment.

Any class announcements (including homework assignments, dates of
tests, etc.) will posted outside my office door.

Calculators are required for this class.

Syllabus:  
     Lial, Miller and Hungerford, MATHEMATICS WITH APPLICATIONS, 5th ed.
	Chapter/Sections	Title			approx. # lectures
	 3	3-4	Polynomial and Rational Functions	2
 	11	1,3-6	Differential Calculus		 	8
	12	1-4	Applications of the Derivative	 	5 
	13	1-5,6?	Integral Calculus		 	8
	 7 	1-3?	Linear Programming		 	3 
	(number of lectures per chapter is approximate)

Grades:	Homework (15%)  Weekly assignments from the textbook will be
		announced on Thursdays and will be due the following 
		Tuesday (except no homework will be due the week of 
		a test), at the *beginning* of class. If you cannot
		make it to class, have someone slip it under my office
		door *before the end of class*--NO LATE HOMEWORKS!! 
		The lowest homework score will be dropped. 
		*Collaboration* is allowed (encouraged, even), 
		but write up your solutions by yourself.
		There will also be suggested homework that you do
		not need to turn in.
	Tests (15% each)  
		Each test will take place a full week after the
		material for that test is covered.
		3.3-11.4	Thu  1 Oct.
		11.5-12.4	Thu 29 Oct.
		Ch. 13		Tue  1 Dec.
		NO MAKE-UP TESTS  (except in EXTRAORDINARY circumstances
				   and with advance notice).
	Final (40%) cumulative--Tue 15 Dec., 1:00-3:45pm

If your final exam grade is higher than your course grade, your course
grade will become the final exam grade, provided you took each
of the tests during the semester, and turned in 80% of the homeworks.

Each test (including the final exam) will be curved to a 90-80-70-60
scale, with the curve announced when the test is handed back to you.

Important dates: 
		Student drop date	Fri  9 Oct.
		Faculty drop date	Fri 20 Nov.
		Thanksgiving (no class) Thu 26 Nov.
		last class date		Thu 10 Dec.
		Final Exam		Tue 15 Dec.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE ASK ME!!