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Introduction to Oceanography with Professor Chamberlin this page last updated Monday April 27, 2009 4:16 PM 1. General Information WELCOME! Please read all sections of the course guidelines that follow. Your enrollment in this course and your subsequent success depend on a thorough understanding of these course guidelines. Make sure you have the basic skills needed to complete this course. These guidelines establish specific requirements, grading criteria, description of exams and other key aspects of this course. Please make sure you read these guidelines very carefully. It is your responsibility to make sure you understand and agree to what is required in this course. COURSE SYNOPSIS: This course equates to three (3) lecture hours per week over a 17.5-week semester. That means we move nearly four times as fast during our 4.5 weeks of summer semester. Oceanography encompasses physics, chemistry, and geology, as well as biology. This course examines how these processes interact within different marine ecosystems. An overview is provided of the physical, chemical, and geological nature of marine ecosystems, the distribution and productivity of the organisms found within them, and the oceanographic tools used to determine these properties. The interaction of humans with the marine environment is woven throughout. BASIC SKILLS REQUIREMENTS: All students enrolling in a general education science class at Fullerton College are expected to do college-level work. I assume that you are proficient in reading and writing English (proper spelling, grammar, and sentence and paragraph construction) at the college level and that you have a basic familiarity with basic mathematics, including unit conversion, estimation, units analysis, basic math, and some algebra. I assume that you know how to read longitude and latitude on a map and that you can interpret data displayed in various kinds of tables and graphs. If you do not have these basic skills, I highly recommend that you obtain them before you enroll in this course. One of the biggest reasons students fail gen-ed science is because they lack basic skills. Summer semester can be especially brutal so make sure you are prepared before enrolling for this course. COMPUTER REQUIREMENTS : All students are required to use a computer and the internet in this course. If you do not have computer and internet skills, then it is highly recommended that you obtain them before you attempt this course. COLLEGE POLICIES AND ACADEMIC HONESTY: All college, district, state and federal policies, guidelines and regulations in effect for on-campus courses apply to this course. Students are urged to review the FC Catalog, especially with regards to Academic Honesty. Copying or paraphrasing a single sentence from another student, Wikipedia, or any other source is not permitted. Likewise, you are not permitted to copy and paste from materials you may have submitted previously in this course (if you are a returning student). This policy applies to everything you submit, including participation assignments, homework, exams, extra credit, and anything else you submit for credit. If you work with another student on an assignment, you must complete your work independently and your writing must be your own (not paraphrased or rearranged from each other). Students are urged to review the information on plagiarism at turnitin.com to be certain that their activities are not construed as cheating. If you are caught cheating, you will receive a zero for that assignment or exam and your name will be sent to the Dean of Natural Sciences and the VP of Instruction. Repeated cheating may result in your expulsion from the college. ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS: Your are required to participate in this course on a regular basis. That means you must LOG IN 4-5 TIMES EVERY WEEK. Students who fail to log in during any week of the summer semester (Monday to Sunday) may be dropped. Participation means being active and engaged and contributing to our online learning environment. DROP POLICY: It is the responsibility of the student to drop the course regardless of attendance requirements. Do not rely on your professor to drop you for any reason. Failure to drop a course may result in an failing grade (F) for the semester. STUDY REQUIREMENTS: Students may expect to spend 20-25 HOURS PER WEEK STUDYING for this course in the summer session. Students are urged to review the suggestions provided in the FC Course Catalog concerning workload and class load. Failure to properly budget your time may severely hamper your success in this course. UNDECIDED ON A MAJOR? Why not pursue a career in Oceanography, Meteorology, Geology, or Earth Science? You may be amazed at the opportunities for students in this field. If you are interested in business, technology, computers, working with machinery, public relations, marketing, law, physical fitness, medicine, health and just about any other subject, we need you! All that's required is a passion for the ocean. Just ask me.
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