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\emph{Computer Science CS 10001 Computer Literacy}\\
Section 003\\
Call Number 19918\\
\textbf{SYLLABUS}\\
Fall 2010
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\item[Time and Place:]
Monday, Wednesday, 9:15-10:30 in room 228 MCS aka MSB;
\item[Instructor:]
Michael Rothstein, 268 MSB, phone 330-672-9065.
Email address:
rothstei at cs.kent.edu (The address mrothste at kent.edu will not work too well
because I do not check it as often; for a quicker response, the first address
is recommended.)
\item[Web address:]
\htmladdnormallink{http://www.cs.kent.edu/~rothstei}
{http://www.cs.kent.edu/~rothstei}
\item[Office Hours:] 
Mondays and Wednesdays from 11:00 to 1:30, and Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:00 to 12:00.
I will also be available for questions after class for a few minutes.
In addition, you can always send email with questions and/or to 
set up an appointment. Usual turnaround will be a few
hours during the day. Email use is to be preferred over voicemail, which will
not be checked as often.
\item[Textbook:]
Please refer to the notes; they will include the necesary websites. In most
cases, just googling the topic will reveal a good website. The topics will be
covered in the order given in the topics list.
\item[Course Goals:]
Coverage of a collection of computer-related topics which will help you to use
computers more intelligently.
\item[Course Prerequisite:] None.
\item[On Clickers:] Clickers are required for this course. They will be used
for quizzes and eventually to take attendance. (Initially I will take
attendance manually in order to get aquainted with you).
\item[Attendance policy:]
By initiative of the Provost of the University, I have been charged with
keeping full attendance records, at least for the first ten weeks of the
semester. Though I will not compute these records into your final averages,
when I assign letter grades, I will give you a slightly better grade if
you have a better attendance record.
Notwithstanding the above, if you are absent, there may be material created,
either spontaneously or in response to questions, and covered in the
classroom; often there will not be any written notes of this material, so it
might be a good idea to team up with somebody who keeps good notes to make sure
you have all the material covered. Some of this material may show up in an exam.

Read the websites. Only general reading assignments will be given. The class
will 
mostly cover material in the same order as given in the final version of
the syllabus, there may be
exceptions however. It is the student's responsibility to maintain an
awareness of the material that is currently being covered. Ask the
instructor if you are unsure of the material currently being covered.

The syllabus may be changed during the semester if necesary: changes will be 
announced in class; they will also show up on the instructor's website.

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\item[Class disruptions:]
Disruptions should be kept to a minimum; these include (in increasing order of
seriousness):
\begin{enumerate}
\item Early departure (if announced and done discreetly: please sit near the
  door so that as few people as possible notice.)
\item Late arrival
\item Use of electronic devices or other devices which may interfere with
  your or other student's participation. Laptops are acceptable for taking
  notes, however, please sit in the last row of the room so that your screen
  does not distract/block other students.
\item Conversation among students.
\item Aiding and/or abetting these or any other student's disruptive behaviors.
\end{enumerate}
Guidelines pertaining to class disruptions are outlined in the
University Rules and Regulations.

%In summary, serious violators will be subject to:
%\begin{enumerate}
%\item Instructions to cease and desist, usually indicated by class being
%  stopped.
%\item A request for the offender(s) to withdraw from the classroom.
%\item If that fails, Campus Police will be called in.
%\end{enumerate}
%In all cases, the matter will be referred to University Authorities.
%\item[Lab:] This course has a mandatory lab associated with it.
%  \emph{Lab attendance is required.}The lab has a different instructor and
%  details on how the lab is conducted will be given in the lab meetings. The
%  lab instructor gives the lab scores to the lecture instructor. You must pass
%  both the lab and the lecture part of the course to pass the course.
%
%  The lab grade is worth 30\% of the total grade
%item[Assignment on ``Hacking Elections'':]
%ince the year 2000, a lot has been said and done about election fraud;
%fter the Florida Fiasco, electronic voting machines were mandated accross
%he land. Your assignment is to determine how election fraud could be
%ommitted with present-day equipment. If you are not eligibel to vote, or
%oted absentee, your assignment consists of a survey of famous past election
%rauds. This assignment is due November 12th.
\item[Grading:]
Your grade will be based on two midterms, one final, assorted quizzes
throughout the term,
and a ``class participation grade'', based on the number of relevant
questions asked and uses of the clicker outside quiz questions.
Specially good questions and answers and catching my mistakes get extra points.
The weights are:\\
\begin{tabular}{lr}
Class Participation & 20\% \\
Quizzes & 20\% \\
Midterm 1 (September 29) & 15\% \\
Midterm 2 (November 3) & 20\% \\
Final (Wednesday, Dec 15 at 10:15 AM) & 25\%
\end{tabular}

All quizzes and exams will be comprehensive. This includes the final.
\item[Test make-up policy:]
I will need signed
documentation to verify {\em each} individual absence in order to
provide make-ups; only university accepted reasons will be honored.
%\item[Averaging algorithm:]
%The three tests will be worth 20\%, 30\% and 40\% respectively.
%The exercises are (collectively) worth 10\% of the grade.
%%Each test will be worth 20\%, and the final will be worth 40\%.
\item[Grading scale:]
%(I usually give a grading scale which is quite rigorous: if it is
%in place from the beginning, there is little room for complaint:
%in addition, I DO NOT follow it: I actually use something more like:
%\par
%\begin{tabular}{cl}
%92-100 & for an A\\
%84-91 & for a B\\
%76-83 & for a C\\
%68-75 & for a D
%\end{tabular}
%\par
%or sometimes even lower: a lot depends on the severity of the tests
%and final and your gut feelings. In order to allay their feelings about
%arbitrariness, I fill this space in as follows:)
%\par
I will assign number grades during the session
and only convert them to letter grades when I turn them in at the end
of the session. No decision can be made regarding a conversion table 
until the very last minute due to such imponderables as test difficulty, class
attendance and participation, etc. which will influence the grade. However,
I guarantee the following, worst case, table:
\par
\begin{tabular}{cl}
97-100 & will convert into an A\\  %93
94-96 & will convert into at least an A-\\  %90
91-93 & will convert into at least a B+\\   %87
88-90 & will convert into at least a B\\    %83
85-87 & will convert into at least a B-\\   %80
82-84 & will convert into at least a C+\\   %77
79-81 & will convert into at least a C\\    %73
76-78 & will convert into at least a C-\\   %70
73-75 & will convert into at least a D+\\   %67
66-72 & will convert into at least a D      %60
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\item[Special accommodations for Students with Disabilities:]
University
policy 3342-3-01.3 requires that students with disabilities be
provided reasonable accommodations to ensure their equal access to course
content. If you have a documented disability and require accommodations, please
contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester to make arrangements
for necessary classroom adjustments. Please note, you must first verify your
eligibility for these through Student Accessability Services (contact
330-672-3391 or visit:\\
\htmladdnormallink{http://www.kent.edu/sas}
{http://www.kent.edu/sas}
for more information on registration
procedures). 
\item[Registration Requirement:]
The official registration deadline for this course is
September 12, 2010. University policy requires all students to be officially
registered in each class they are attending. Students who are not officially
registered for a course by published deadlines should not be attending classes
and will not receive credit or a grade for the course. Each student must
confirm enrollment by checking his/her class schedule (using Student Tools in
FlashFast) prior to the deadline indicated. Registration errors must be
corrected prior to the deadline.

The last withdrawal date for this course is November 7 2010.
\item[On cheating, plagiarism and other unethical behavior:]
All quizzes, exams, etc. are supposed to be individual work.
%All work for this class should be done individually.
%In the case of homework, the only cooperation implicitly allowed is that
%students may discuss between themselves the broad outline of the work.
Copying other people's work, allowing your work to be copied (even
inadvertently!) and plagiarizing work will not be tolerated and
will be dealt with according to University regulations,
as described in the University Policies and Procedures, a condensed version
of which is attached.

Notes:
\begin{enumerate}
\item By default, the penalty for cheating in this course is an ``F'' in the course.
\item University regulations require me to notify Student Conduct in case of violations.
\item Cooperation is just as bad as the deed itself: so, deciding
which of two is the original is a non-issue: both are equally guilty.
\end{enumerate}
%{\em Digest of Rules and Regulations}, available through:\\
%\htmladdnormallink{http://www.kent.edu/policyreg/chap3/3-01-8.cfm}
%{http://www.kent.edu/policyreg/chap3/3-01-8.cfm}

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ADMINISTRATIVE POLICY AND PROCEDURES REGARDING STUDENT CHEATING AND PLAGIARISM}
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For complete policy and procedure search the University Website for policy
3342-3-01.8.

Cheating and plagiarism constitute fraudulent misrepresentation for which no
credit can be given and for which appropriate sanctions are warranted and will
be applied.

The university affirms that acts of cheating and plagiarism by students
constitute a subversion of the goals of the institution, have no place in the
university and are serious offenses to academic goals and objectives, as well
as to the rights of fellow students.

``Cheat'' means to intentionally misrepresent the source, nature, or other
conditions of academic work so as to accrue undeserved credit, or to cooperate
with someone else in such misrepresentation. Cheating includes, but is not
limited to:

\begin{enumerate}
\item 
Obtaining or retaining partial or whole copies of examinations, tests or
quizzes before these are distributed for student use;
\item 
Using notes, textbooks or other information in examinations, tests and
quizzes, except as expressly permitted;
\item 
Obtaining confidential information about examinations, tests or quizzes
other than that released by the instructor;
\item 
Securing, giving or exchanging information during examinations;
\item 
Presenting data or other material gathered by another person or group as
one's own;
\item 
Falsifying experimental data or information;
\item 
Having another person take one's place for any academic performance without
the specific knowledge and permission of the instructor;
\item 
Cooperating with another to do one or more of the above;
\item 
Using a substantial portion of a piece of work previously submitted for
another course or program to meet the requirements of the present course or
program without notifying the instructor to whom the work is presented; and
\item 
Presenting falsified information in order to postpone or avoid
examinations, tests, quizzes, or other academic work.
\end{enumerate}

``Plagiarize'' means to take and present as one's own a material portion of the
ideas or words of another or to present as one's own an idea or work derived
from an existing source without full and proper credit to the source of the
ideas, words, or works. As defined, plagiarize includes, but is not limited to:
\begin{enumerate}
\item[a.]
The copying of words, sentences and paragraphs directly from the work of
another without proper credit;
\item[b.]
The copying of illustrations, figures, photographs, drawings, models, or
other visual and nonverbal materials, including recordings of another without
proper credit; and
\item[c.]
The presentation of work prepared by another in final or draft form as one's
own without citing the source, such as the use of purchased research papers.
\end{enumerate}

\subsubsection*{Academic Sanctions}

The following academic sanctions are provided by this rule for offenses of
cheating or plagiarism. Kent campus instructors shall notify the department
chairperson and the student conduct office each time a sanction is imposed.
Regional campus instructors shall notify the regional campus dean and the
student conduct officer each time a sanction is imposed. Regional campus
student conduct officer shall notify the Kent student conduct office each time
a sanction is imposed by a regional campus Instructor. The following academic
sanctions are provided by this rule for offenses of cheating or plagiarism. In
those cases the instructor may:

\begin{enumerate}

\item 
Refuse to accept the work for credit; or
\item 
Assign a grade of ``F'' or zero for the project, test, paper, examination or
other work in which the cheating or plagiarism took
place; or
\item 
Assign a grade of ``F'' for the course in which the cheating or plagiarism
took place; and/or;
\item 
Recommend to the department chair or regional campus dean that further
action specified in the rule be taken. The
department chairperson or regional campus dean shall determine whether or not
to forward to the academic dean or to the
vice president for the extended university a recommendation for further
sanction under this rule.
\end{enumerate}

%\subsubsection*{Academic Appeals}
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%The general principle that applies to the following procedures is that an
%appeal is directed to the administrative level immediately above the unit from
%which the appeal emanates.
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%Appeals are limited to the following reasons:
%
%\begin{enumerate}
%\item[a.]
%The decision is arbitrary or unreasonable,
%\item[b.]
%The decision resulted from a procedural error,
%\item[c.]
%The decision is not in accordance with the facts presented,
%\item[d.]
%New information is available which may suggest modification of the decision.
%\end{enumerate}

For complete policy and procedure go to www.kent.edu/policyregister 
3342-3-01.8, available at
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