Course Meetings
Math 215 is a four credit, semester long course in multivariable calculus. It meets three times a week in lecture and once a week in a computer lab, with each meeting being an academic hour (50 minutes). Lectures meet with approximately 100 students in class, and labs meet with approximately 25 students in class. All sections share the same schedule and assessment, including homework sets, labs, and exams.
The course is coordinated by a course coordinator, who manages the course syllabus, assignments, and assessment structure. The lectures are taught by faculty, and the labs by graduate students.
Course Assessment
Course Assessment has historically included the following:
- Two Midterm exams, and a Final exam. Material for these will be indicated by the course coordinator and instructors of the course.
- Web homework and Written homework, which are due roughly weekly. The web homework is largely formative, providing students with practice to master the essential skills of the course; we expect that most students in the course will have very high averages on the web homework. The written homework has historically been more involved, providing students the opportunity to develop higher order conceptual understanding.
- Lab writeups, which are assigned in lab; the details of any submission are provided by the lab instructor. Lab writeups are due approximately 8 times during a semester.
- and a Gateway (a repeatable mastery-style assessment) at the beginning of the course, which ensures that all students have the single variable calculus skills required to succeed in the course.
The exact set of assessments, and the weights as a part of the course grade, are determined semester-by-semester by the course coordinator.
