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Office hrs and location for each of the lecture TAs will be designated in a separate document on the Bio 2960 website. Office hrs will be each week there is an exam and by appointment. Tutors (for individual and group tutoring) are available free of charge. If you need an undergraduate tutor, who has already taken similar coursework, contact Dr. Kathy Hafer in person or via email (hafer@biology2.wustl.edu). Students working with tutors are expected to meet regularly with the tutor. VII. Lectures and Assigned Readings: Lectures will parallel but typically not duplicate, the treatment in the assigned readings in the texts. The lecturer will assume that you have read the assigned material prior to class. Failure to do the reading in advance may lead to difficulty in following the lectures. Some topics from the text readings will not be covered in lectures but you are still responsible. All lectures will be videotaped and will be available for review in the Biology Library and at http://eres.wustl.edu or via a link from the Bio 2960 website; these tapes should be used for review, not in place of attendance at live lectures. Occasionally, outside readings will be selected to emphasize discovery- how we came to know what we think we know. These readings will be available on the Bio 2960 web site. Note that the web site is intended for use by the members of this class only, and is password protected. Our permission to use these papers and other materials has been granted on this condition; please respect this fact, and do not transfer material to an unprotected site. Classroom Handouts. There will be no classroom handouts. Key figures used in the lectures will be available on the website before each lecture; therefore printing these out prior to each lecture will aid in following each lecture. VIII. Academic Integrity: We encourage you to form study groups, and to work together in analyzing the text and readings, solving the problem sets, etc. However, the work that you turn in (lab notebooks, exams) should be your work alone. For example, while in lab you should discuss the questions with your lab partner(s), gather and share your data, but then sit down and write your own lab report yourself. All lab reports and exams, whether take-home or in class, should be your own work. IX. REVIEWING BIOLOGY 2960 LECTURES Problems with ERes and the streaming lectures should be reported to eres@library.wustl.edu . Last year, they were typically fixed within hrs of reporting. Recordings should be used for review in addition to attending lectures and not in the place of lecture attendance. Experience has shown that students who rely on recorded lectures may have suboptimal performance on exams. Also quality is not guaranteed; each semester 1-2 lectures have some sound and/or video problems. VHS videotapes are available in the Biology Library (usually late afternoon each lecture day). Viewing while the library is open. First come/first served Sign out on log 4
sheet/wait list at desk and use video players in library OR get 2-hour loan from desk and use video players in NSLC or elsewhere . Direct links thru the Bio 2960 website. On the web at http://eres.wustl.edu. Username and password will be available from your instructor. IP protected - use a workstation on W.U. campus or use the proxy server [see http://library.wustl.edu/about/access.html]. Workstations available in Biology Library, NSLC, and many campus computer labs. For plug-in information for your own computers, see the online help pages. 5
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