Course
Requirements
TEXTBOOKS |
| Required: |
| Notebook of readings that you will receive on the 1st day of class. |
| Strongly Recommended: |
APA (2001). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th Edition. Washington, D.C.: APA |
You are also expected to subscribe to the class listserv (ancomcog) and to check your email account at least once a day for postings relevant to this class. Class announcements, study guides for quizzes, and news articles appropriate for this course will be posted to the list. Any news articles posted to the list can and will be used in quizzes. You may also use this list to ask questions, form study groups, or post your own animal communication and cognition comments and observations.
To subscribe to the list, click here or compose an email message to:
ancomcog-on@wheatonma.edu
Leave the subject heading and the body of the message blank. Then send the message. You should get a message back from the listserv (a listserv is a computer, by the way) to which you MUST reply as instructed in order to be subscribed. Follow the instructions in the message from the listserv, and you should have no trouble getting onto the list!
You will need access to a computer in order to check your email and get messages from the list. You will also need access to a computer in order to submit class assignments. All submitted writing assignments should be word-processed, spell-checked, and double-spaced, with adequate margins for comments. If you send me material to read as an attachment via email, I can only open MS Word documents. Your material must be in MS Word or MS Excel in order for me to open it.
You will also need a Blackboard account through Wheaton College. I will post Powerpoint slides from lecture and occassional additional documents on this site. Check the class listserv for updates on when new items are posted to the class Blackboard site.
On most occassions, you may be asked to collect, summarize, and analyze data using MS Excel, and perhaps to use Excel or other software to run statistical analyses.
If my computer skills allow it, some quizzes or other tutorials may appear in the class website. You can also find lecture notes, assignment material, helpful hints for exams and assignments, and similar material here at the course website. So check back here often to see what is new!
Materials
that
You Will
Need
for This Course
For this course, you will need to bring something to write with every day. For example, you will need to make notes in your lab journal, or revisions to a report submitted previously. So be sure to bring plenty of your favorite writing instruments!
You will need access to a computer and to a word processing program, spreadsheet
program, and perhaps some statistical programs.
You are encouraged to keep all of your work (your lab journal, lab reports,
drafts, and final copies of proposals) in a portfolio, including originals
and revisions. A large, three-ring binder is recommended for this purpose.
I recommend that you keep at least one hard copy and one disk copy of
each assignment that you submit to me, as protection against the whims
of electronic technology.