COSC 3300 Networks and Internets

Course Syllabus: Lectures
Office Hours
Textbooks
Objectives
Grading Policy
Schedule

Course Instructor: Dennis Brylow
Email: brylow at mscs dot mu dot edu
Office: CU 380

MWF 2:00pm - 2:50pm, CU 137
Friday 2:50pm - 3:50pm, CU 310

Textbooks

Computer Networks And Internets,
5th edition.
Douglas Comer.
Prentice Hall.
ISBN 0-13-606127-3.

Readings will be regularly assigned from the textbook.
Lectures will assume that students have already read the assigned chapters.
In addition, some homework problems may be assigned out of the book.
Some of these problems also make excellent exam questions.

Course Objectives

Grades will be calculated using the following formula:

Projects	50%
Pop (Reading) Quizzes	10%
Midterm Exam	20%
Final Exam	20%

Students must pass BOTH the practical portion of the grade (homework and labs,) AND and the exam portion of the grade to pass the course overall.

Assignments are to be completed individually, except when specifically noted otherwise. You may discuss course topics with your collegues, but written work and programmed code is not to be shared.

Academic dishonesty (claiming another person's work as your own) will not be tolerated. Infractions will result in immediate failure of the course, and referral to the Dean's office, in accordance with Marquette's University-wide Academic Honesty Policy.

If you are not certain what constitutes fair play and what will be considered academic dishonesty, please ask the instructor.

Homework will consist of substantial design and implementation projects, often with a week or more lead time. Students who wait until a few days before the deadline to begin the homework will typically not succeed.

Late work will not normally be accepted for grading. Students are expected to observe deadlines and follow submission instructions precisely.

Although formal attendance will not be taken, it is expected that students will attend all scheduled sessions. Excessive absences (which would be obvious from missing in-class pop quizzes, for example,) will result in withdrawal from the course, per Marquette's University-wide Attendance Policy.

Schedule