MATH 1471 -- Changes

Wed Dec 1 15:08:59 2010

Effective Term: New:  1119 - Fall 2011
Old:  1089 - Fall 2008
Course Title Short: New:  UMTYMP Calculus IA
Old:  Calculus I
Course Title Long: New:  UM Talented Youth Mathematics Program - Calculus I - First Semester

Old:  Honors Calculus I for Secondary Students
Max-Min Credits
for Course:		 New:  2.0 to 2.0 credit(s)
Old:  5.0 to 5.0 credit(s)
Catalog
Description:		 New:  Accelerated honors-level sequence for selected mathematically talented high school students.  Single variable calculus through differentiation and its applications.
Old:  Differentiation/integration of single-variable functions. Emphasizes concepts/explorations.
Print in Catalog?: New:  No
Old:  Yes
Grading Basis: New:   A-F or Aud
Old:   Stdnt Opt
Academic
Progress Units:		 New:  Not allowed to bypass limits.
2.0 credit(s)
Old:  Not allowed to bypass limits.
5.0 credit(s)
Financial Aid
Progress Units:		 New:  Not allowed to bypass limits.
2.0 credit(s)
Old:  Not allowed to bypass limits.
5.0 credit(s)
Repetition of
Course:		 New:   Allow up to 2 repetition(s) totalling up to 4.0 credit(s).
Old:   Repetition not allowed.
Course
Prerequisites
for Catalog:		 New:  <no text provided>
Old:  High school student, #
Course
Equivalency:		 New:  00067 - Math 1142/1271/1281/1371/1571H
Old:  No course equivalencies
Consent
Requirement:		 New:   Department
Old:   Instructor
Editor Comments: New:  <no text provided>
Old:  This is a copy of MATH 1471: Honors Calculus I for Secondary Students
Proposal Changes: New:  UMTYMP is changing the format of instruction and contact hours in line with new curriculum direction.  

Changing title of the course, repeat and faculty sponsor name. Course credit being set at 2 credits (in line with the 1 night a week format that students/parents are requesting from the program).

Old:  <no text provided>
History Information: New:
<no text provided>
Old:
Updating course at the request of UHP to remove the 'H' designation and removing the Honors course attribute (Fall 2008).
Faculty
Sponsor Name:		 New:  Jonathan Rogness
Old:  Harvey Keynes
Faculty
Sponsor E-mail Address:		 New:  rogness@umn.edu
Old:  
Criteria for
Core Courses:		 Describe how the course meets the specific bullet points for the proposed core requirement. Give concrete and detailed examples for the course syllabus, detailed outline, laboratory material, student projects, or other instructional materials or method.

Core courses must meet the following requirements:

  • They explicitly help students understand what liberal education is, how the content and the substance of this course enhance a liberal education, and what this means for them as students and as citizens
  • They employ teaching and learning strategies that engage students with doing the work of the field, not just reading about it.
  • They include small group experiences (such as discussion sections or labs) and use writing as appropriate to the discipline to help students learn and reflect on their learning.
  • They do not (except in rare and clearly justified cases) have prerequisites beyond the Universitys entrance requirements.
  • They are offered on a regular schedule.
  • They are taught by regular faculty or under exceptional circumstances by instructors on continuing appointments. Departments proposing instructors other than regular faculty must provide documentation of how such instructors will be trained and supervised to ensure consistency and continuity in courses.

 New:
Problem solving is at the heart of any mathematics course. In this course some problems would involve purely mathematical issues, like finding the derivative of a polynomial or determining the features of the graph of a rational function. Other problems involve taking a real world situation like predicting the trajectory of a projectile or analyzing population growth and decline, requiring students to first identify the mathematically relevant aspects, then define appropriate mathematical variables and relations, and finally solve the resulting mathematics problem.

Old:
<no text provided>
Provisional
Syllabus:		 Please provide a provisional syllabus for new courses and courses in which changes in content and/or description and/or credits are proposed that include the following information: course goals and description; format/structure of the course (proposed number of instructor contact hours per week, student workload effort per week, etc.); topics to be covered; scope and nature of assigned readings (texts, authors, frequency, amount per week); required course assignments; nature of any student projects; and how students will be evaluated.

The University policy on credits is found under Section 4A of "Standards for Semester Conversion" at http://www.fpd.finop.umn.edu/groups/senate/documents/policy/semestercon.html . Provisional course syllabus information will be retained in this system until new syllabus information is entered with the next major course modification, This provisional course syllabus information may not correspond to the course as offered in a particular semester.

New:  Credit level being reduced due to change in contact hours not decrease in material.  
Old:  N/A