Improper collaboration or other forms of cheating may result in unpleasant interviews with a dean, followed by punishment that can go as far as expulsion from the university. Return to Top . Both exams are closed book and no calculators are permitted. Thursday, March 1. Cumulative, with emphasis on post midterm exam work.
Lectures are the essential part of the course.
Reading the relevant parts of the text and doing the homework is very important in order to understand the subject matter of the course. But everything will be much harder if you skip lectures. Asking questions at lectures, making comments, and hearing the questions and comments of classmates, along with the responses, deepens your understanding and gets you past difficult points much more easily. Students who skip lectures almost always start to fall behind and then have difficulty in catching up, because of the connections between the topics. Examples used in the lectures are generally different from those in the text, and often explanations given in class are more detailed.