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Office:                288-A Woodward Building
Office Hours:      9-10 MW
Phone:                704-687-8527
email:                 sschnedr@uncc.edu

Lecture:               9:30-10:45 MW 155 Woodward Building

Prerequisites: You must have received credit for BIOL 2130 with a grade of C or better to enroll in BIOL 3236

Text: OPTIONAL: Hickman, Roberts, Larson, I'anson & Eisenhour:
Integrated Principles of Zoology, 14th Edition ISBN 0-07-283056-5

You will have 4 hourly exams, each worth 100 points. Hourly exams will be True-False and multiple choice.

Final Exam Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009, 8-10:30 AM (comprehensive)

The grading scale for the course is: 90-100% = A; 80-89% = B; 70-79% = C; 60-69% = D; <60% = F.

** The comprehensive final exam is optional, unless you miss a regular exam. At the end of the course, if you are satisfied with the grade you have, then you can choose not to take the comprehensive final exam. If you miss an exam (even if the absence is excused), then you MUST take the comprehensive final regardless of the grade you have in the course. Please note: the comprehensive final is NOT designed solely to help your grade. If you take the final, it will count as a 200 pt. test and will be counted toward your grade in the course whether you do well or poorly.

If you opt NOT to take the comprehensive final exam, then your grade is based on 400 possible points. If you take the comprehensive final exam, your grade will be based on 600 possible points.

Make up exams are not given. If an exam is missed, you must provide within two days of the exam date official documentation for the absence (e.g. verification of a doctor's visit; a funeral announcement; auto repair bill; etc.). The documentation MUST contain a current phone and/or fax number so that the excuse can be verified. If the absence is excused by Dr. Schneider, then the grade for the comprehensive final will be counted in place of the missed exam. If the absence is not excused than a grade of zero will be recorded for the missed exam. Only one excused absence for an exam is allowed during the session.

Academic Integrity: Students have the responsibility to know and observe the requirements of the UNCC Code of Student Academic Integrity, outlined in the catalog and summarized below:

CODE OF STUDENT ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

THE UNC CHARLOTTE CODE OF STUDENT ACADEMIC INTEGRITY governs the responsibility of students to maintain integrity in academic work, defines violations of the standards, describes procedures for handling alleged violations of the standards, and lists applicable penalties. The following conduct is prohibited in that Code as violating those standards:

A. Cheating. Intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, notes, study aids or other devices in any academic exercise. This definition includes unauthorized communication of information during an academic exercise.

B. Fabrication and Falsification. Intentional and unauthorized alteration or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise. Falsification is a matter of altering information, while fabrication is a matter of inventing or counterfeiting information for use in any academic exercise.

C. Multiple Submission. The submission of substantial portions of the same academic work (including oral reports) for credit more than once without authorization.

D. Plagiarism. Intentionally or knowingly presenting the work of another as one's own (i.e., without proper acknowledgment of the source). The sole exception to the requirement of acknowledging sources is when the ideas, information, etc., are common knowledge.

E. Abuse of Academic Materials. Intentionally or knowingly destroying, stealing, or making inaccessible library or other academic resource material.

F. Complicity in Academic Dishonesty. Intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another to commit an act of academic dishonesty.

A full explanation of these definitions, and a description of procedures used in cases where student violations are alleged, is found in the complete text of The UNC Charlotte Code of Student Academic Integrity. This Code may be modified from time to time. Students are advised to contact the Office of the Dean of Students or go online to ensure they consult the most recent edition.

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Biology 3236

GENERAL ZOOLOGY

Fall, 2009