Course Syllabus for PHYS 301:
Summer Term 2014:
Textbook:
No text is required for this course. Instead, you will view numerous web sites with information relevant to the topics we're discussing. You'll find links to these sites in the lectures as well as in the Resources section of the course.
Instructor: G. Bothun, Dept of Physics
- email: dkmatter@uoregon.edu
- email: bigmoo@gmail.com
Essay Consultant/Course Assistant: Katie Ulfers
- email: kulfers@uoregon.edu
Key Deadline Dates:
Homework Assignments
| First Essay | Due 9:50 PM Friday July 11 |
| Second Essay | Due 9:50 PM Friday July 25 |
| Third Essay | Due 9:50 PM Wednesday Aug 13 |
| Fourth Essay | Due 9:50 PM Tuesday Aug 26 |
Exam Login Windows:
Exam 1: July 30--31
Exam 2: Aug 27--28
Important Notes:
1. The assigned essays are meant to be reflective essays about
the ambiguous nature of the material that has been presented. You must ground your arguments in the actual evidence of the time (quotes made by famous people ARE evidence) instead of just making your own arguments. The point of the essays is to synthesize the material and make a reasonable argument as prompted.
2. Essays are graded in two ways: a)the overall quality of your
argument and b) the use of evidence in making your argument. Often times these two grades are quite different.
3. There are two exams in this course, the first one covers
the first two modules and the second one covers the second two
modules. Exams are web based and consist of short to medium
answer questions that you type into a web form.
4. Exams and Essay scores have equal weight in the final
determination of your grade.
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