The Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences (NSEES) advocates the highest standards of professional ethics and academic integrity. Students and faculty have developed an honor code for the school which is distributed to all students prior to matriculation and discussed during orientation. Students in this course are expected to follow the honor code.
Writeups of homework must be done independently. This includes computations, Splus output, graphs, answers to questions and discussion of results. Copying of homework will not be tolerated, and will be treated as a violation of the NSEES honor code. You may discuss issues and concepts with your colleagues, but your writeup must be your own.
Late homework will not be accepted.
Students requesting regrades of homework or exams must make these requests within one week of receiving the graded material. Attach a note explaining the regrade issue to your homework or exam and submit to instructor. The instructor or TA has the option to regrade the entire homework or exam.
Some guidelines for submitting written material:
Written interpretations and conclusions are at least as important if not more important than generation of data summaries, statistics, tests, etc. Clear, careful writing and interpretation of results is an important part of the homework, midterms, project and final exam.
Unless specifically requested, never submit raw computer output pages. Instead use a text editor to cut and paste parts of the output file into your writeup. Output, plots, variables, etc. should be labeled appropriately.
Grading Scheme
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Homework |
10% |
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Quizzes (best 2 of 3) |
15% |
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In-class midterm |
15% |
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Take-home midterm |
20% |
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Project poster presentation |
20% |
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Final exam |
20% |