BIOCHEMISTRY 100 - Fall 2007

Dr. Clint Chapple
Office: WSLR B030
Tel: 494-0494
E-mail: chapple@purdue.edu
Office hours: by appointment

Hemalatha Jayachandran
Office: Hansen 225 (HANS 225)
Tel: 494-6591
E-mail: hemalatha@purdue.edu
Office hours:
Monday 4-5pm
Thursday 4-5pm
Friday 1-2pm

Concepts in Biochemistry, Third Edition. Rodney Boyer. Brooks/Cole Publishing, 2006.

This textbook is NOT required. Multiple copies of this and previous versions of the same textbook (for the purposes of this course, the texts are essentially interchangeable) will be on reserve in the Lilly and Hicks Undergraduate libraries. Although it may benefit some students to read some or all of the material that we cover in class, much of the information covered in this text is at a more advanced level that is required in this course. Rather than relying on this textbook, I would recommend that if you do not understand material as I explain it in lecture, ask for clarification. In all likelihood, if you do not understand the material, others will be confused as well.

There will be no opportunity for extra credit.

Missing a quiz or exam will result in a grade of 0 being recorded unless documented justification for the absence is presented. Any request to be excused from a quiz or exam must include a completed copy of the form attached at the back of this syllabus, accompanied by official documentation (doctor’s note, request from academic advisor, etc) explaining why the exam was or will be missed. Makeup tests will be scheduled in consultation with Dr. Chapple.

If you have any disagreements with the way any of your quizzes or exams have been graded, please consult the grading key. In the event the key does not resolve your concerns, please take them up with Dr. Chapple.

Requests for re-grades must be submitted no later than the end of the second class period after the graded test or assignment has been returned.

Academic misconduct of any kind will not be tolerated in BCHM 100. Information on Purdue’s policies can be found at http://www.purdue.edu/ODOS/osrr/integrity.htm.

To provide you with an unambiguous definition of academic misconduct, the following text has been excerpted from "Academic Integrity: A Guide for Students", written by Stephen Akers, Ph.D., Executive Associate Dean of Students (1995, Revised 1999, 2003), and published by the Office of the Dean of Students in cooperation with Purdue Student Government, Schleman Hall of Student Services, Room 207, 475 Stadium Mall Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907-2050.

“Purdue prohibits "dishonesty in connection with any University activity. Cheating, plagiarism, or knowingly furnishing false information to the University are examples of dishonesty." [Part 5, Section III-B-2-a, University Regulations] Furthermore, the University Senate has stipulated that "the commitment of acts of cheating, lying, and deceit in any of their diverse forms (such as the use of substitutes for taking examinations, the use of illegal cribs, plagiarism, and copying during examinations) is dishonest and must not be tolerated. Moreover, knowingly to aid and abet, directly or indirectly, other parties in committing dishonest acts is in itself dishonest." [University Senate Document 72-18, December 15, 1972].

• More specifically, the following are a few examples of academic dishonesty which have been discovered at Purdue University.
• substituting on an exam for another student
• substituting in a course for another student
• paying someone else to write a paper and submitting it as one's own work
• giving or receiving answers by use of signals during an exam
• copying with or without the other person's knowledge during an exam
• doing class assignments for someone else
• plagiarizing published material, class assignments, or lab reports
• turning in a paper that has been purchased from a commercial research firm or obtained from the internet
• padding items of a bibliography
• obtaining an unauthorized copy of a test in advance of its scheduled administration
• using unauthorized notes during an exam
• collaborating with other students on assignments when it is not allowed
• obtaining a test from the exam site, completing and submitting it later
• altering answers on a scored test and submitting it for a regrade
• accessing and altering grade records
• stealing class assignments from other students and submitting them as one's own
• fabricating data
• destroying or stealing the work of other students

Plagiarism is a special kind of academic dishonesty in which one person steals another person's ideas or words and falsely presents them as the plagiarist's own product. This is most likely to occur in the following ways:

• using the exact language of someone else without the use of quotation marks and without giving proper credit to the author
• presenting the sequence of ideas or arranging the material of someone else even though such is expressed in one's own words, without giving appropriate acknowledgment
• submitting a document written by someone else but representing it as one's own”
  

Dr. Chapple will be available to answer your questions immediately after class or by appointment (arranged in class or by e-mail). Alternatively, you can submit questions by e-mail that can be answered in class or by return e-mail.

The lecture TA will hold office hours for at least 3 hours per week, and will be able to answer additional questions by appointment.