Ecology i: the earth system

Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session

Recitations: 1 session / week, 1 hour / session

Smith, Robert, and Thomas Smith. Ecology and Field Biology. 6th ed. San Francisco, CA: Benjamin Cummings, 2001. ISBN: 9780321068811.

Ancillary readings will be made available through the course Web site. These will be assigned to be associated with particular Lectures.

Recitations will be run by the TAs, undergraduate teaching fellows (UTFs), and Harlan Breindel and Leslie Roldan from the Writing Program unless otherwise specified. We strongly encourage you to attend. Content presented in some of the recitations will be essential for your term project.

Outlines and specific reading assignments will be made available for each cluster of lectures on a specific topic. Study guides will be available before each quiz to help you focus your reading and studying.

Show up, be honest, and do your best.

We hope that as a result of this course you will:

Although MIT does not have an honor code, in 1.018 we function as though it does. We will not police you. We assume that you are honest, are here to learn, and are proud of your work.

If a student is caught turning in a paper or homework that was written by someone else, or copying text from sources without referencing them, or cheating on an exam, he or she will be given an F on the assignment, and likely be reported to the Committee on Discipline. If you have questions regarding what constitutes the appropriate use of sources and plagiarism, you should consult with a member of the course staff. Academic Integrity at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a useful handbook for understanding what constitutes violations of academic integrity, for citing sources, and for avoiding plagiarism. (PDF)

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