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SYNOPSIS

An introductory course on general meteorology, primarily for the non-science major. The physical nature of the atmosphere will be presented in a visual and descriptive manner.

LECTURES

MWF 1:00-1:50 pm in Moore 100. Go to the lecture topics schedule.

DISCUSSION SECTIONS

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There is no preferential enrollment; no PTEs will be issued for any sections. Concurrent-enrollment students are admitted on a case-by-case basis.

Please note that if you are dropped for any reason (usually a late fee payment), you will NOT be able to immediately re-enroll in a section that has a closed or wait-listed status. You will have to enroll into an open section or wait list; you will not be given preferrential enrollment. This includes students dropped due to registrar/computer error or other administrative problem.

You must attend the section in which you enroll because of (a) limited seating in the classroom and (b) the in-class quizzes that may take place in the discussion sections. Please check your Official Study List to ensure that you are attending the correct section, since you will not get quiz credit if you are attending the wrong discussion section. More information on quizzes.

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TEXTBOOK

Aguado, E. and J.E. Burt, Understanding Weather and Climate, 6th ed. (custom looseleaf edition designed for this class) Required text. Available from UCLA Textbooks and is on reserve at the College Library. This book is also available as an e-text from CourseSmart.com and online in mymeteorologylab.com. See section below for policy on reading assignments from this textbook.

WEB SITE

A&O Sci 3 Web Site (you're here now): Announcements, quizzes and old exams, screen images, Shockwave® movies.

http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/AS3/as3.html (you must type this in exactly as capitalized)

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INSTRUCTOR

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GRADES

The final course grade will be based on a percentage scale out of total of 1,000 points. This total will be comprised of:

The grade cut-off points are:

NO LAB

Note that the minimum score for a "P" (Pass) grade is 660/1000. Dr. Lew should be notified in case of any clerical errors.

If you are enrolled in the lab section, your grade will be out of 1100 points (100 points from the lab assignments) and the grade from this will be recorded under both the lecture and the lab on your transcript. The cut-offs for the 1100 point scale are as follows:

WITH LAB

In this case, a passing ("P") score is 726/1100.

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EXAMINATIONS

There will be NO makeup and NO alternate-scheduled (i.e., "early") exams, unless otherwise required by Office for Students With Disabilities (OSD) and California Education Code Section 92640(a). Please note that Exam #2, taking place during final exams week, is non-cumulative and is scheduled for only two hours, not three.

Examinations are multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank. Please bring your photo identification, either student ID, driver's license, or passport. The exams are closed book unless otherwise noted beforehand.

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LABORATORIES

The 1-unit lab section is an optional add-on to the 4-unit lecture/discussion. The syllabus for the labs is accessible from the lab information page.

If you are going to take the 1-unit lab course, you need to be enrolled in it during the same quarter you are enrolled in the lecture/discussion. The lab section has no formal classroom meetings; communications and assignments will be done by email and may utilize computer modules on the textbook publisher's mymeteorologylab.com website.

See the lab information page for details on policies, modified grade scale, and lab assignments.

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QUIZZES

Instead of long homework assignments, we will have three take-home quizzes. These are fill-in-the-blank questions related to lecture material and the textbook (if you have one), and probably will take you 30-60 minutes to complete. These will be given out at one of the lectures of Weeks 3, 7, and 9, and is due before the beginning of the lecture following the day of distribution. Late quizzes are not accepted for any reason. This means if you walk in late, your quiz will not be accepted. If you have a regularly occurring situation where there is a good chance you will be late to class when a quiz is due (for example, you commute and this is your first class of the day), you should probably email or fax the quiz to me sometime beforehand. Email or faxes must be received before class begins (1:00 pm on the due date). You can be excused from one of these quizzes if you miss it or are late due to some unforeseen circumstance; this means that discretionary travel does not excuse you from a take-home quiz, since you can plan to email your quiz.

There will also be several in-class quizzes. These will be given either at the beginning or end or during lectures, or at the beginning or end of discussion sections. They are open-book, open-notes, and you can work with other people in the room. They are just like the take-home quizzes, but should only require 10 minutes to complete. Only five of the seven in-lecture quizzes are formally scheduled (Wednesdays of Weeks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 ); the other two may be given at any time without prior warning. It is therefore imperative that you attend as many or all lectures and discussions as possible, since you will not be able to make up an in-lecture quiz for any reason, including emergencies and illness, and you cannot get credit for in-discussions quizzes taken in any discussion section other than the one in which you are enrolled, unless you got prior authorization (see section hops, below). You are only required to complete 5 of the 7 in-lecture quizzes and the 4 in-discussion quizzes (discussion quizzes are given in Weeks 2, 4, 7, and 10) in order to get full credit for the quizzes. You may do more of the quizzes if you like--in-lecture quiz points earned above 100 points will be included in your course total and is essentially extra credit. Because you are not required to do every quiz, there will be no excused in-lecture quizzes; no one is entitled to "extra credit".

"Section hops", which are instances where you attend a section in which you are not enrolled in order to take a quiz, can be done once per quarter, but it must be authorized in advance by Dr. Lew (otherwise, the quiz will not count for credit). As an alternative, you can be excused from one discussion quiz, which needs to be arranged by Dr. Lew as soon as possible. Since we do not take attendance, you can go to any discussion section that you please during the weeks there are no discussion quizzes given, without authorization.

If you have some outside obligation that conflicts with more than one of the scheduled quizzes, you are highly discouraged from taking the course at this time, because there cannot and will not be any quizzes given outside of class and at times other than when they are given to the class as a whole.

All quizzes (take-home and in-class) are to be written by the person submitting the quiz. This means you cannot have someone else write up your quizzes on your behalf (you must be present to take an in-class quiz), and take-home quizzes cannot be copied/pasted into multiple e-mails. These kinds of behaviors may be referred to the Dean of Students for prosecution.

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READING

You are responsible for material given in lecture and labs, and for all material in the text unless noted in lecture (the text should be on reserve in the College Library, if you have not purchased it). It is expected that you will have at least skimmed the textbook material before the relevant lecture(s) and familiarized yourself with some of the boldface terms. The lectures will concentrate on the highlights and difficult concepts, so they will not give complete coverage of the textbook. The lecture schedule will help you determine what needs to be read at any one time.

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Dr. Jeffrey K. Lew UCLA Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 405 Hilgard Ave Box 951565 Los Angeles CA 90095-1565

03/26/2014