Course: C/IL 102 (Computing and Information Literacy)
Semester: Spring 2008
Meeting Days: Monday, Wednesday
Meeting Place: St. Thomas Hall 412
Meeting Times: Section 4: 1:00pm - 1:50pm;
Section 8: 3:00pm-3:50pm
Instructor Info:
Name: Dr. R. McCloskey
Office: St. Thomas Hall 480
Telephone: 941-4221 (office)
E-mail: mccloskeyr1@scranton.edu (or mccloske@cs.uofs.edu)
Home Web Page:
www.cs.uofs.edu/~mccloske/
Office Hours:
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(also by appointment)
Textbook: click here
Exams: There will be two exams during the semester, plus a comprehensive final exam administered during "finals week" in May. Make-up exams will be given only in the case of a documented illness or emergency.
Homework: Expect three to five homework assignments (some done in groups of two to four), each of which will require the student to make use of skills learned in the lab part of the course and at least one of which will require the student to do an oral presentation.
Grading:
Approximate weights are as follows:
Semester Exam: 24%
Final Exam: 22%
Homework Assignments: 50%
Class Participation: 4%
Raw score to letter grade mapping (approximate):
[94,100] --- A [75,79) --- C+
[90, 94) --- A- [71,75) --- C
[86, 90) --- B+ [68,71) --- C-
[82, 86) --- B [63,68) --- D+
[79, 82) --- B- [58,63) --- D
[ 0,58) --- F
Administrative Notes:
Computing & Information Literacy is a general education
requirement at the University of Scranton that can be fulfilled by taking
this course, C/IL 102, together with the corresponding lab, C/IL 102L,
during the same academic term, and by earning a grade of C
or better in both of them.
(Note that the two are separate in the sense that a student earns a grade
in each one, completely independent of the other. Also note that neither
one can be taken in pass/fail mode.)
The only exception to this rule occurs when a student, having taken both C/IL 102 and C/IL 102L during the same term, has satisfied the requirement in one but not in the other (e.g., by earning a B in C/IL 102 but only a D in C/IL 102L). In this case, the student may re-take the course for which (s)he has not yet satisfied the requirement, without re-taking the other one. (Following our example, the student may re-take C/IL 102L without re-taking C/IL 102.)
Finally, a student may not receive credit for more than one pair of C/IL courses. For example, you may not receive credit for both C/IL 102/102L and C/IL 104/104L.
A second avenue through which a student may fulfill the C/IL general education requirement (but without earning any academic credits) is by passing an exemption examination. This exam is administered shortly after the beginning of each semester, and to take it a student must not be enrolled in a C/IL course. For more details, contact Dr. Sidbury of the Computing Sciences Department. (His e-mail address is sidbury@cs.uofs.edu.)