Instructor: Amy Bruckman Email: asb at cc.gatech.edu Office Hours: Find me after class or email for an appointment.
TAs: Wilson Chen (Head TA), wchen631 at gatech.edu A24, Fri 8:25 - 10:20 am, Clough 146 David Qu, dqu35 at gatech.edu A25, Fri 12:30 - 2:25 pm, DM Smith 203 Grace Pfohl, gracepfohl at gatech.edu A11, Wed 5:00 - 6:55 pm, Clough 131 A23, Thur 3:30 pm - 5:25 pm, Molecular Sciences and Engr 1222 Jonathan Satterfield, jonathan.satterfield at gatech.edu A01, Fri 8:25 - 10:20 am, Engineering Sci and Mechanics 202 A31, Fri 3:30 - 5:25 pm, Engineering Sci and Mechanics G8 Joshua Kent, jkent40 at gatech.edu A14, Wed 5:00 - 6:55 pm, Manufacture Rel Discip Complex 2405 A05, Thur 12:30 - 2:25 pm, Engineering Sci and Mechanics G8 Niharika Gali, niharikagali at gatech.edu A03, Thur 8:25 - 10:20 am, West Architecture 259 A27, Thur 3:30 - 5:25 pm, Engineering Sci and Mechanics 202 Pranav Mahesh, pmahesh at gatech.edu A09, Fri 12:30 - 2:25 pm, West Architecture 260 A17, Wed 5:00 - 6:55pm, Clough 323 Preethi Narayanan, pnarayanan31 at gatech.edu A04, Thur 8:25 - 10:20 am, West Architecture 260 A29, Wed 5:00 - 6:55 pm, Cherry Emerson 322 Ramyani Ghosh, ramyani at gatech.edu A06, Thur 12:30 - 2:25 pm, Engineering Sci and Mechanics 202 A16, Fri 12:30 - 2:25 pm, Clough 127 Sadie Palmer, spalmer37 at gatech.edu A10, Thur 12:30 - 2:25 pm, Clough 150 A22, Thur 3:30 - 5:25 pm, Molecular Sciences and Engr 1201A Serena Gao, serena at gatech.edu A20, Thur 3:30 - 5:25 pm, Howey Physics S107 A28, Fri 8:25 - 10:20 am, D.M. Smith 11 Sridevi Alawandi, salawandi6 at gatech.edu A13, Thur 3:30 - 5:25 pm, D.M. Smith 11 A19, Fri 3:30 - 5:25 pm, Clough 323 Sukhesh Nuthalapati, snuthalapati3 at gatech.edu A30, Fri 8:25 - 10:20 am, West Architecture 259 A32, Fri 3:30 - 5:25 pm, Molecular Sciences and Engr 1222 Tejas Lokeshrao, tlokeshrao3 at gatech.edu A15, Fri 12:30 - 2:25 pm, College of Computing 53 Tulika Banerjee, tbanerjee33 at gatech.edu A21, Thur 12:30 - 2:25 pm, Clough 323 A07, Fri 3:30 - 5:25 pm, Molecular Sciences and Engr 1224 Vince Li, vince.li at gatech.edu A12, Fri 8:25 - 10:20 am, College of Computing 102 A26, Fri 12:30 - 2:25 pm, Howey Physics S105A Waffy Ahmed, wahmed9 at gatech.edu A08, Fri 3:30 - 5:25 pm, Manufacture Rel Discip Complex 2405 Yesha Thakkar, ythakkar7 at gatech.edu A02, Fri 12:30 - 2:25 pm, Manufacture Rel Discip Complex 2405 Zhaoran Ma, medwardz at gatech.edu A18, Wed 5:00 - 6:55 pm, Clough 325 A33, Thur 8:25 - 10:20 am, Clough 131 Discussion: On the Canvas for each section, and as a whole class on Piazza Class Schedule
In this class, you will learn about:
Please make sure to read the correct edition of the Quinn book, since content in it gets quickly out of date.
Attendance and Participation Class attendance is required for both lectures and sections. Your section leader will record your lecture and section attendance. All lecture and section meetings are in person.
You will report your lecture attendance to your section leader at section. Section attendance is still required to be in person, unless you are ill or have a legitimate excuse.
You may have two unexcused absences from lecture, and this will not affect your attendance grade. You may NOT miss any sections, unless you have a documented excuse. Please remember to get notes from a classmate if you miss a lecture.
If you need to miss class (either lecture or section) for a legitimate reason, please email your section instructor and the head TA before class. Legitimate reasons for missing class include illness, a job interview, or attending a professional conference. Excuses that will NOT be accepted include for example picking someone up at the airport, having something due in another class, or having furniture delivered. If you need to miss class for the career fair, you may use one of your two unexcused absences. (You don't get a third.)
If you are sick, please stay home. I will be providing low-effort recordings of class (turning a recording on, but focusing on paying attention to people in the room.). Links will be posted on Canvas.
To request an excused absence from either section or lecture, please fill out the absence request form.
The material in this class is best understood through discussion. Therefore, sections are important. Section participation is graded. Your lowest single section grade is dropped.
Before section, you must watch the lectures for that week and do the readings. Your section leader will deduct substantially from your participation grade if you are not prepared.
If you have a legitimate reason to miss section, you may request to attend a different section. Talk to your TA and the head TA. We can not accommodate all such requests due to room size and group size limits, but will try our best.
If you miss section for a legitimate reason and can't make another section, you may be given a makeup assignment. The make-up assignment will typically consist of answering all the questions for discussion in writing, and one more essay that asks you to synthesize what is important. Email your TA for the make-up assignment. This includes students who added the class late, are ill, have a job interview, or whatever other reason. Make-up assignments may be handed in up to two weeks after the missed section; up to one-week later for the final section.
No Multi-Tasking in Lecture or Section
In past semesters, I have asked students to keep laptops and phones in bags (unless needed for an accommodation), and take notes on paper. I am going to try allowing laptop use this term, but I am asking for your cooperation. Please use your laptop only for taking notes and referring to the assigned readings. Close your email, social media, etc.
Most importantly, do not do anything that might distract other people or the instructor. One term I had a student who was repeatedly smirking at his laptop, and I wasn't even being funny at the time. It's really distracting. Don't be that person. If you are distracting me or others around you, I will ask you to leave, and you will not get credit for attendance for that class. If it happens more than once, I may assign you an additional homework essay on multi-tasking, with references.
Rules for laptop use in section are up to your section leader.
Reference Format Please use APA format for all references. APA format is described here.
Assignments
Homeworks will be graded on a list of criteria (specified on the assignment) such as quality of writing, completeness, insight into technical issues, insight into social issues, etc. For each criterion, you will receive either a check plus, check, or check minus. Most criterion will receive a check. A plus means "you impressed me." A minus means the assignment is incomplete, incorrect, or sloppy in some fashion with respect to that criterion.
Please hand all assignments in on Canvas unless explicitly instructed otherwise.
If English is not your first language, you may request to not be graded on your writing for a particular individual assignment, including the term paper. This means you won't be penalized for bad writing, but you also won't get credit for good writing. To take advantage of this option, you must mark "ESL" (English as a Second Language) on the first page of your assignment/paper. This option is not available for group assignments. We still of course expect you to try to write in correct English, and will do our best to offer useful feedback on your writing.
Late Policy
Assignments are due 15 minutes before the start of our assigned class time on the day they are due (10:45 am ET).
Late assignments will be penalized at a rate of 3 pts (one grade step: A becomes A-) per day. Assignments more than one week late will not be accepted.
Please double space your assignments.
Over the course of the term, you have three "late days" where work may be late with no explanation needed. Please mark 'use my late days' on the first page of your assignment/paper if want to use your late days when you make late submissions. Use your late days wisely as different submissions have different weights. If you have used your late days on a low-value assignment like a homework, you can't later transfer them to a different assignment.
Use of AI
Use of grammar checkers is allowed and encouraged. However, please
do not use an AI tool that authors text for you, except when
explicitly instructed to do so. Note that using an AI to write your
assignment constitutes academic misconduct for handing in something
that is not your own work.
Honor Code
This class abides by the Georgia Tech Honor Code. All assigned work is expected to be individual, except where explicitly written otherwise. You are encouraged to discuss the assignments with your classmates; however, what you hand in should be your own work.
Please be careful not to copy sentences from readings/references into your assignments verbatim. Sometimes this happens accidentally. For example, a student may copy and paste a sentence into their file of notes, and then later refer to their notes and forget that the sentence is not their own. If you copy anything into notes, make sure to write where you got it from. Other times, students who are struggling with English as a second language may copy sentences because they are struggling with the language. Do not do this. Remember that we have a lenient policy on grading for ESL students.
If copied sentences are detected and the copying appears incidential, the assignment will be penalized for 5 to 10 points per sentence. If the copying is more extensive, the student will be refered to the Office of Student Integrity.
Statement of Intent for Inclusivity
As a member of the Georgia Tech community, I am committed to creating a learning environment in which all of my students feel safe and included. Because we are individuals with varying needs, I am reliant on your feedback to achieve this goal. To that end, I invite you to enter into dialogue with me about the things I can stop, start, and continue doing to make my classroom an environment in which every student feels valued and can engage actively in our learning community.
Assignments and ideas on this syllabus build on those from everyone who has taught it before, especially Colin Potts, Mary Jean Harrold, Bill Ribarsky, and Spencer Rugaber.