Your course grade will be based mainly on your performance on exams, assignments
and the class project.
There will be several quizzes, and I will also value your contributions
to class participation.
The relative importance of these areas is reflected in the following weights:
class project 25% | exams 30% | assignments 30% | quizzes 10%
| participation 5%
The highlight of the course is your class project. You will work
in teams of two to improve an existing model.
You select a partner and a topic midway through the course and submit a
"memo" on your project plan shortly after the second exam.
You submit a team report on the modeling improvement.
Your job is to use the improved model to either refute or reinforce the
conclusions drawn by the previous investigator.
Most frequent advice (on grades) from previous students:
don't miss an assignment or a quiz because a zero really drags down
your score
and
start early on the class project -- it's a lot harder than you think.
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