ATMO 336 Section 3 Weather Climate and Society

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Course Objectives:

This course examines basic weather phenomena, climate variability and climate change, and their associated effects on people as well as predicted (and debated) human-caused changes in the climate system.

Web page:

http://www.atmo.arizona.edu/students/courselinks/spring07/atmo336s3/home.html

Course Hours/Location:

Section 3: Tuesday, Thursday   12:30PM - 1:45PM  
Anthropology (Haury), Room 216.

Instructor:

Dr. E. Robert (Rob) Kursinski, Associate Professor
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Office: Physics and Atmospheric Sciences (PAS) Building, Room 580.
Office Hours: TBD
Phone: 621-2139 (voice mail)
Email: kursinski@atmo.arizona.edu
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Teaching Assistant:

Class Notes / Important Dates:

There is no textbook for this course. Lectures will be based on the Lecture Pages available from the class web page and additional material that will be distributed during lectures throughout the semester.

Important dates, such as homework deadlines, exam dates, etc., will be posted in the class calendar.

Grading:

Homework:

Homework assignments will be given periodically during the semester. These will consist of short written papers and brief problem sets.

Your homework assignments will be graded on the quality and clarity of your English as well as their content. No cheating, fabrication, facilitating academic dishonesty, or plagiarism will be tolerated. Copying of another student's homework will result in 0 credit for that homework assignment.

All homework assignments assigned during class will also be available on the class web page. Homework assignments turned in late will incur a grade reduction of 10% per day. Your combined homework accounts for the equivalent of one exam or 25% of your grade.

Exams:

There will be 3 in-class exams and a final exam. Exam grades account for 75% of your final grade. Each in-class exam will account for 25% of your final grade. The exams will consist of a mixture of multiple choice and short answer questions. Extra credit questions may appear on your exams.

Each exam will cover new material presented up through the end of the latest lecture period. On exam dates, students who arrive after the first student turns in her/his quiz/exam, will not be not allowed to take the quiz/exam. Because the lowest score among the exams will be excluded from the course grade, there will be NO MAKE-UP EXAMS. Bring your CAT CARD on exam days!

Pop-quizzes will consist of 1 or 2 questions. The format of the questions will be same as for the regularly-scheduled exams: multiple choice and/or short answer questions. They will be added to your total grade. As incentive to keep up with the program, pop quizzes may include material that is contained in the reading assignment for that day's lecture. Answers will only be accepted on 4''x 6'' index cards!

Final Grade

Your final grade will be based on scores from your homework, your best 2 exams, impromptu pop quizzes, and a comprehensive final examination.

If your score on the final exceeds the average of your two best exams and your homework (counted as one exam), the 2 best exams plus your homework will comprise 60% (=20% each) and the final the remaining 40% of your course grade. Otherwise your 2 best exams plus your homework will comprise 75% (=25% each) and the final the remaining 25%.

Any student with an average of 90% or better on all three exams and the combined homework (which counts as one exam) will be exempt from the final and will receive an "A'' for the course.

Final exam is Tuesday, May 8 from 11:00 - 1:00

Exam Policy:

You are expected to read the relevant material from the class notes. Exams will be taken from both the lecture material (including web pages and links therein) and the reading assignments.

Please contact the instructor (preferrably via e-mail) as soon as possible if for an unexpected reason you are unable to be in class for an exam. A make-up exam will be arranged with sufficient proof. No make-up exam will be given unless you notify the instructor BEFORE missing the exam in class.

Grade Scale:

Your final grade will be curved and therefore depends on everybody else's grades. The grade scale will be A(90%); B(80%); C(65%); D(55%).