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Meteorology

CollegeNow Meteorology EPS03100 CLG1N 2292 Meetings Tuesday & Thursday 750-905 am. Meteorology. Instructor Information. Instructor: Robert Schenck Office: S-302, in the Science Building, on the third floor ph: 718-368-5792 Email: rob.schenck@yahoo.com

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Meteorology

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  1. CollegeNow Meteorology EPS03100 CLG1N 2292 Meetings Tuesday & Thursday 750-905 am Meteorology

  2. Instructor Information • Instructor: Robert Schenck • Office: S-302, in the Science Building, on the third floor • ph: 718-368-5792 • Email: rob.schenck@yahoo.com • I have a BS in Biology and Geology from SUNY and a MS in Biology from Adelphi University. I do paleoclimate research using fossilized planktonic organisms called “Foraminifera” from off the west coast Namibia. • The forams are retrieved by scientific research vessels that drill into the ocean sediment and bring up cores. The cores contain, amoung other paleoclimate indicators, the forams.

  3. Textbook and readings The Atmosphere, Lutgens and Tarbuck, 10th Edition

  4. Objectives for the Course This course will address the fundamental issues and processes within meteorology and climatology. Participants in this course will gain expertise in the course subject matter and a familiarity with the current state of research on the subject.

  5. This will not be an ‘easy’ course. This course will be very difficult for some of you. Everyone will have to make a real commitment to put in a good, honest and focused effort into the course.

  6. How much time will this class involve? It will certainly require more than the hour and 15 minutes that we are in this class. In a typical college course, you can expect to put in at least three hours a week for each credit you are taking. A student with a 12 credit semester could anticipate having to practically work a second job, nearly 40 hours a week, on their subjects outside of class. For you, who are presumably only taking this class with that in mind, that would be 9 hours a week, at a minimum.

  7. Previously….. I taught a CollegeNow course last semester. In an anonymous end of course evaluation, many students indicated that they only put in a couple of hours a week at most into the four credit class. A good number of students failed or received Ds or Cs.

  8. Why am I taking this course now? I have no idea why you are taking it. Presumably, outside of the fact that your high school requires you to participate in CollegeNow and that it requires you to take a science course, you are taking it because you want to. Because you are interested in the subject. Or because you want to get experience taking a college course before going off to college. Or because you want to go into college with some credits on your transcript. Remember though, while nearly all schools accept Kingsborough credits, they can accept them in different ways, largely based on your performance in the course. This is true for all ‘transfer’ or other credits.

  9. It is in your interest to get a high mark So, how can that be achieved here?

  10. “Syllabus” This is a skeletal syllabus. You are going to decide what are some other ways that you can ‘test’ your understanding of the course material. Some people can process information very well but have a hard time relating it to other people. Some people don’t do too well on flat tests but excel at doing experiments, or projects and presentations. You are going to have some time to work out, together, what your assignments are going to be, how long they should be worked on, and how much they count for.

  11. Work on that outside of class We will have a gap in our class schedule early on, and that will be the best time for you to work through the bulk of that. We will have some class time to also discuss and finalize the details.

  12. Class conduct Use common sense. Be respectful to other students, don’t talk over one another, don’t waste their time chit chatting with them or distracting them with your cell phone or laptops. Do not come to class late. Class starts at 750. Do not expect to leave early. Class ends at 905.

  13. Fair Warning If you cheat on a test or any assignment, you will be dropped from the class. Plagiarism is cheating. But what is plagiarism? If you present someone else’s ideas as your own, and its not something that is so commonly known that no one would even imagine that you were trying to pass it off as yours, then you are plagiarizing. Plagiarizing is not using someone else's’ ideas. It is using someone else's’ ideas without attribution. You can quote, you can paraphrase, you can ‘re-write in you own words’, but if you haven’t given attribution, you’ve plagiarized. There are many ways to give proper attribution. You are free to look into the many methods that are out there. In college, depending on what subject matter you are handling, there will be a different, preferred, citation method.

  14. One last thing.. The easiest way to reach my outside of class is through email. My email again is rob.schenck@yahoo.com Please user proper language when emailing me. I’m not “leet”. Just try to be clear in what you are saying.

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