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General Microbiology II

Course Evaluation

Your course grade will be based on your performance on both lecture and laboratory activities:

• The lecture portion of your grade (75%) will be determined by your performance on four 70-point examinations, two 35-point presentations and online quizzes (25-points).
  • Examinations will be a combination of approximately 30 multiple-choice, matching-multiple-choice, true-false questions, fill-in-the-blank and short answer essay. If you miss any of the first three examinations for a reason acceptable to the instructor, you may take a make-up examination within one week after the date of the one you missed.
  • Presentations are 10 minutes long. (Make sure that you stick to the time!!) Everybody in the group must contribute to the presentations. You must hand in a one-page summary a week before the presentation (see schedule), which should be a summary of what you are planning to present. The instructor will read it and let you know if something is missing or should be presented differently. Based on that you should prepare the presentation and send it to the instructor two days before the actual presentation in the morning before 10:00 am (see schedule). The instructor will check it and let you know, if it is OK or if things need to be changed. Your group must come to the instructor's office hours in the afternoon of that day to discuss the presentation. Very important: if you have any questions: come by during office hours or send the instructor an email!!
  • Online Quizzes are found on the textbook website. You may take as many quizzes as you like, and you can accumulate a maximum of 25 points.
• The laboratory portion of your course grade (25%) will be determined by your performance on two laboratory examinations (30 points for the first and 35 points for the second), two laboratory notebook assessments (5 points for the first and 15 points for the second), two 10-point laboratory reports, and five unannounced quizzes (10 points total). Although you are expected to participate in every laboratory exercise, you will be allowed one excused absence. Each additional absence will result in deduction of 10 points from your cumulative course points.
• Extra credit opportunities are available ... as described on the Extra Credit web page.

Plagiarism and other infractions of Miami University rules and regulations will be dealt with as described in the Miami University Handbook (pay particular attention to Part V Academic Misconduct and especially to SECTION 01.502).

Your course grade will be determined using the following scale:

Cheating on any aspect of this course may make you subject to immediate dismissal from the class with a grade of F.