CSE 21 - Math/Algorithm&Systems Analys - Briones [S225]

CSE 21 Su2 2025

Welcome to CSE 21! 

This course will cover mathematical concepts used to model and analyze algorithms and computer systems. Topics include algorithm correctness and analysis,  counting techniques , data representations,, recurrence relations, graphs, trees (data structure representations; basic graph algorithms; special classes of graphs), and basic probability and its applications to randomized algorithms. 

This course is a direct tie-in to the upper division algorithms and theory classes, such as 100, 101, 103, 105 and 107, but will also provide basic concepts that are used in the majority of later classes.  

Prerequisites

CSE 20 or MATH 15A or MATH 31CH; students who have completed MATH 154 or MATH 184 or MATH 188 previously or concurrently may not receive credit for CSE 21; restricted to undergraduates.  It is sufficient to know basic propositional and predicate logic, basic proof techniques (including mathematical induction), basic mathematics (algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus), a basic understanding of computer programming. Graduate students will be allowed as space permits. Prerequisite courses must have been completed with a grade of C– or better.

Endemic Resilience :

While Covid 19 is now considered endemic rather than pandemic, there are still many cases causing serious health problems for people at UCSD.   Please be patient with us as we do our best to serve the needs of all students while adhering to the university guidelines. The health and safety of everyone in the course must be a top priority for all of us. Please do not see me in person if you are sick or even think you might be sick. Under no circumstances will exams be remote, but you may email me before the exam(s) for potential alternatives.

We will provide as much of the class materials as we can in a remotely viewable format. The lectures, are designed to engage students in real time with opportunities for questions and discussions between instructor and students and also between students and other students. The hope is that you ask questions in person or in Zoom Chat, or raise your hand over Zoom (IF we can hold Zoom lectures). Please take advantage of the variety of ways to interact with the instructional team outside of class.  Office hours will be offered in Zoom or in person.  There will be a limited number of one-on-one slots for individual interaction with staff.   There will be a piazza site where you can ask or answer questions at any time, or discuss other aspects of the class. And there will be a discord where you can also ask questions in a more relaxed setting.

 

Instructional Staff

Name	Role	E-mail	Office/Tutor/One-on-one hours
Jor-el Briones	Instructor	jbriones@ucsd.edu	Varies (Will Notify via Canvas)
Vikram Sirupurapu	Instructional Assistant	vsirupur@ucsd.edu	TBD Week 5
Andy Smithwick	Tutor	asmithwick@ucsd.edu	Mondays 6-8 PM https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/6313870859?pwd=dzh1VVdaYlVRclVtQThXSTdpV2dzUT09
Chuheng Xi	Tutor	cxi@ucsd.edu	Mondays 4PM-6PM https://us04web.zoom.us/j/74073836666?pwd=aWLU2uQkqaxVax6t9VrScMhZF2LRJX.1
Shreya Hiremath	Tutor	s1hiremath@ucsd.edu	The week of August 11th: Friday 11am-1pm https://us04web.zoom.us/j/76889135845?pwd=NaLcqA0aGuXxliw2BjorixFRbD3xsx.1 Thursdays 6PM-8PM (starting August 21st) https://us04web.zoom.us/j/76889135845?pwd=NaLcqA0aGuXxliw2BjorixFRbD3xsx.1

 

Lecture Schedule:

This is a rough lecture schedule and will be subject to change without warning during the summer session.

 

Lecture	Date	Topics	Textbook Sections	Zoom Download (if applicable)
1	8/5/2025	Syllabus Lecture, Induction Review	n/a	8/5 Zoom Video Link
2	8/7/2025	Sorting, Searching, Loop Invariants, and Runtimes	3.1-3.3, 5.5	8/7 Zoom Video Link
3	8/12/2025	MergeSort and Counting with Recursions, Recursive algorithms	5.4, 5.5, 8.1, 8.3	8/12 Zoom Video Link
4	8/14/2025	Solving Recurrences (Unraveling and Guess and Check) and Counting: Basics, Premutations and Combinations	6.1, 6.3-6.5, 8.1	8/14 Zoom Video Link
5	8/19/2025	Counting: Basics, Premutations and Combinations	6.1, 6.3-6.5	8/19 Zoom Video Link
Midterm Exam	8/21/2025 3PM-4:50PM	Center Hall (CENTR) 109
6	8/21/2025	Binomial Theorem, Stars and Bars, Pigeonhole Principle, Encoding, Decoding, and Huffman Trees	6.1-6.5	8/21 Zoom Video Link
7	8/26/2025	Encoding, Decoding, and Huffman Trees, Graph Intro	6.1-6.5, 10.1-10.5	8/26 Zoom Video Link
8	8/28/2025	Graph Theory	10.1-10.5	9/1 Async Lecture Zoom Video Link
9	9/2/2025	Probability Theory	7.1-7.4	9/2 Zoom Video Link
10	9/4/2025	Probability Theory Part 2	7.1-7.4	9/4 Zoom Video Link
Final Exam	9/6/2025 7PM-10PM	Center Hall (CENTR) 105

 

Course Resources

Piazza (You should be automatically added and up on the Piazza Tab on Canvas):

We will be communicating with you through an online question and answer platform called Piazza. We ask that when you have a question about the class that might be relevant to other students, you post your question on Piazza instead of emailing us. That way, everyone can benefit from the response. On the other hand, questions about specific approaches to homework problems or other assignments should be marked private, visible only to instructors.

Gradescope (You should be automatically added and up on the Gradescope Tab on Canvas): The website where you submit all homework assignments and review quizzes

Discord (Under Construction): A more casual (unofficial) forum to discuss course logistics and course topics.

The official textbook for this course is:   

Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, Kenneth Rosen, McGraw Hill, 7th edition.

The textbook's companion website has extra practice problems and resources. In particular, the Self Assessments and the Extra Examples for each chapter are great practice materials. Earlier editions contain almost all of the material we will reference, and can be bought used often quite reasonably.  Just be sure to double-check locations for references  because we will use the  chapter and page numbers for 7th edition.  

You may also wish to look at the following textbook as a supplementary resource.

Jenkyns, Stephenson   Fundamentals of Discrete Math for Computer Science: A Problem-Solving Primer

The full pdf of this (optional) book is available for free download from a UCSD internet connection at:

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-4471-4069-6Links to an external site.

Note: The above link is NOT the textbook.

 

Another helpful book is:  Daniel Solow's
How to Read and Do Proofs: An Introduction to Mathematical Thought Processes
While primarily for mathematics majors, it also is a general reference that can be used by anyone reading or doing proofs.

Please note: I do not plan on assigning problems directly from any of the textbooks for homework. If any such problem appears on the homework, it will be written out fully, rather than simply making direct reference to the textbook (eg you will not see something on an assignment like 'Rosen Ch 10, problem 5'). Moreover, while I encourage you to follow along the course with Rosen's corresponding chapters, I do not require that you do.

 

Course Meeting Schedule:

 

Meeting Type	Day(s) of Week	Time	Location	Zoom Link (if applicable)
Lecture	Tue/Thu	6:00pm-8:50pm	Center Hall (CENTR) 105	https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/97771891032
Discussion	Tue/Thu	5:00pm-5:50pm	Center Hall (CENTR) 105
Midterm Exam	Thursday 8/21/2025	3:00pm-4:50pm	Center Hall (CENTR) 109	N/A
Final Exam	Sat 9/6/2025	7:00pm- 10:00pm :/	Center Hall (CENTR) 105	N/A

 

Lectures:

• The lectures will be taught in person and on Zoom simultaneously (If the lecture room allows).
• The lectures will also be recorded and be available on Canvas, under the Media Gallery tab and under the My Media tab, and more accessibly, on podcast.ucsd.edu.
• The lecture slides will be posted on the Modules tab, ideally before class, but may be revised.  A second version of the same slides will be posted after class, with annotations and with slides that were not yet covered removed.
• You are encouraged to raise your hand and  interrupt lecture to ask questions, make comments or express doubts during lecture! I'm happy to answer questions as best we can.
• There will be a short review quiz based on lecture each week on Canvas.  You will have ONE attempt. The purpose of the quiz is:  if you don't know the quiz answers, you should review materials from that week's class. Each review quiz will be worth 3 points, which can be used toward your participation grade.

Discussion Section:

• In person at CENTR (Center Hall) 105
• It will be Podcasted as well, barring technical difficulties.
• Often, the discussion sections will cover one or more of the homework problems/concepts for homework.

 

Coursework and Grades:

Assignments/Coursework:

Your grade will be based on the following:

• Homework
• 1 Midterm
• Participation (Including Review Quizzes and/or Lecture Polls)
• Final Exam
• Professionalism Score

Review Quizzes, the Midterm Exam, and the Final Exam are strictly individual (you do not work in groups for those).  Do not discuss quizzes or exams until answer keys are posted; a few students may take them late, so answer keys and grades may be delayed.

 

Homework:

Homework can be downloaded from the Modules tab, and will be approximately weekly, with <= 5 homework assignments over the summer session. The number of assignments may vary based on course progress.

You can discuss the ungraded homework with all students, and we will go over these problems in office hours.  However, you may not discuss whole solutions, and are required to have written solutions in your own words or within your homework group. Solutions for the ungraded homework will be available after the graded homework is due. 

Homework should be done in groups of 1-4 people. So you may do them on your own if you prefer not to work in a group. You are free to change group members at any time throughout the quarter, but not within the same assignment (so you may not start homework X with one group, but then change groups for the same homework). Problems should be solved together, not divided up between group members, and you are responsible for answering all questions with academic integrity.  If you are uncertain about the academic integrity of any part of your  group's assignment, please let me know via email. Please read the collaboration policy below for more details.

Most of each homework will be on the topics covered in approximately the current or previous week of class.

While we are going to study many different topics in this class, all the topics are interrelated in different ways, and we will often be using earlier topics in discussing later ones, if only as examples.  

Homework solutions should be handwritten or typed and turned in through Gradescope by 11:59pm on the due date (due dates may vary). Gradescope will also have a "Late Due Date" for assignments, with an accompanied time. Submitting within the "Late Due Date "time frame will not count against your grade; you may consider that a grace period. If you know that you will not be able to submit homework on time or there is an emergency, email Dr Jor-el and arrange to submit later (jbriones@ucsd.edu). Note, if for some reason you MUST submit late, PLEASE email Dr. Jor-el as soon as possible WITH the scan of your solutions. You will be able to look at your scanned work before submitting it, as well as after submission. Please ensure that your submission is legible or your homework may not be graded or given points. You may resubmit updated versions of your homework up until the deadline. Only your most recent Gradescope submission will be graded. If you type your homework instead of handwrite it, you will be awarded 1 point of extra credit for that assignment. If, in addition, you type your homework using LaTeX or some other form of TeX, you will be awarded an additional point of extra credit for that assignment (so, 1 point for a typed assignment, and 2 points for a typed assignment that is also on LaTeX).

 

Standards for evaluation:

Your assignments in this class will be evaluated not only on the correctness of your answers, but ALSO on your ability to present your ideas clearly and logically. You should always explain how you arrived at your conclusions, using mathematically sound reasoning. Whether you use formal proof techniques or write a more informal argument for why something is true, your answers should always be well-supported. Your goal should be to convince the reader that your results and methods are sound. This means that unless it says: "no justification necessary" then we expect at least an informal proof or explanation as justification.

 

Collaboration Guidelines for Homework:

Students are encouraged to collaborate on homework assignments. You may work in groups of up to four students. Your group will submit one assignment and Gradescope will give you the opportunity to add all of your group members to the assignment. If you are working in a group, please have all group member names in the homework scan, and remember to add all of your group members, or they will not receive credit for the homework assignment. Groups do not have to be the same people for every assignment. You can change group members for each assignment.

If you are discussing problems with students outside of your group, please only share hints and basic techniques. DO NOT share your answers or allow other students to copy your written work. The bottom line is to submit YOUR OWN work. If we find that your work is too similar to another group's then you may be suspected of an academic integrity violation, and may be reported.  All students whose names are on the assignment must have participated in answering all questions, at the minimum by carefully proof-reading the submitted answers.  If there is a member of your group that did not participate, you cannot list them as a group member for this assignment.  If some other student or teaching staff gave you a tip that was particularly useful, you MIGHT cite them specifically in the assignment--both their name and which office hour/discussion section you received their help. 

You may not collaborate with anyone outside of the class. You are not permitted to ask homework questions to message boards or websites such as Chegg and CourseHero, or through AIs such as ChatGPT.

You may use some materials not from class, such as other textbooks, notes from previous sections of the class, Khan Academy videos, YouTube videos or something similar, but with some caution. If an outside source has something relevant to a particular homework or exam problem, you MUST CITE the source/ give the source a reference when you submit your assignment. Should you not cite outside source(s), you and all of your group members will receive a 0 on the assignment, and will be reported to the Academic Intergrity Office.

 

Homework Pop Questions:

Due to academic integrity issues that have arisen in the past, I am implementing the following policy as well: In order to encourage students to actually understand their homework assignments, I will hold oral, in person, pop questions, asking each person in the group a question or part of a question from a homework assignment (specifically a question that the group did correctly). They will be able to answer orally, or use some kind of whiteboard/chalkboard/paper to explain their work. You will NOT be allowed the use of your homework solutions, calculators, or notes during the Pop Questions. These will occur during some kind of office hours or arranged meeting, and I will announce if and when such pop questions will occur. Please email me if you cannot attend any such pop question meetings, so that we may schedule potentially a different meeting.

Under no circumstances will pop questions be held remotely. If you cannot be available for any pop questions, I suggest you drop the course.

You are NOT required to do the question perfectly, but you ARE required to demonstrate some level of competence in the material being asked about--what level of competence is required is up to my discretion alone. If your Pop Question Solution to a problem is significantly different than your homework solution, or at my own discretion, I may ask about your homework solution. In such cases, if you cannot also reproduce enough of your homework solution, you will receive a 0 on that assignment. If you or ANY member of your group fails to answer their pop question, you and your ENTIRE group will receive a 0 on the assignment (or just you if you are working alone). Depending on the case, you may also be reported to academic integrity.

The assumption here is that you will know how to do the problems you already did, or you can at least be prepared to present them when you walk in. Yes, I know these will occur after you've turned in your homework, but I also know that you should have memories that last longer than 5 weeks.

 

Review Quizzes:

There will be a review quiz for every week, starting Week 1. Review Quizzes will be posted on Gradescope.

You will have until the following Monday to complete the review quiz of that week.

You will have ONE attempt on each review quiz:

Each review quiz is worth 3 points, to be used for participation. Please do not collaborate with anyone during the review quiz, or access unauthorized websites such as Chegg and CourseHero, which would list answers. Otherwise, the review quizzes are open book, open notes, and open internet.

 

Participation:

Please Sign Up for an Account on: https://webclicker.web.app

You should be able to access it with a google account, or specifically your UCSD email.

Enrollment Code for the Course: MVPROX

You can earn 2 participation points per lecture by answering polls that occur in those lectures. Should you be unable or unwilling to answer the poll questions, please email me at jbriones@ucsd.edu. All polls will be used to track participation in each lecture, so you are required to answer at least one of the questions (though you should answer them all just in case). Your participation polls are NOT graded on correctness. You may also earn up to 3 participation points from the week's review quiz (detailed in a section above). Each week, the maximum number of participation points you can earn is 4, but this can be taken from any combination of poll participation and review quizzes. For example, if you earn 2 points from the review quiz and 2 points from a Tuesday poll, you have earned the 4 participation points you can earn that week. If you earn more than 4 points on a given week, only 4 of those points will be counted.

During Lectures, I will have "dummy polls" active at random times. If you answer any of those polls, your participation score for that week will be dropped to 0. This will not be reflected in your grade until after the week ends, potentially weeks after. You will know which polls are real because I will state that a poll on the screen is real by indicating a start time, and I will state when a poll has ended so that you do not continue to answer the poll.  I will not announce when Dummy Polls happen. This is to prevent academic integrity abuses--students often answer at random, not at lecture, to get points.

In order to get all 10% of the participation grade, you must accrue 15 participation points. For every 1 point below 15, the participation grade will drop by 2%.

In other words:

Participation Total	Participation Points Needed
10%	15
8%	14
6%	13
4%	12
2%	11
0%	<11

 

Midterm Exam:

There will be one Midterm Exam, on Thursday, August 21, 2025, 3:00pm-4:50pm in Center (CENTR) 109.

The Midterm Exam will be held in person. It is your responsibility to ensure that you do not have a schedule conflict involving the Midterm Exam, but we will assist to the extent possible.  If you know of a conflict, please send email directly to Dr Jor-el at jbriones@ucsd.edu. 

You may use calculators on the Midterm Exam, but you will NOT be allowed to bring a cheat sheet. 

 

Final Exam:

The Final Exam will be held in person, in the lecture hall. It is your responsibility to ensure that you do not have a schedule conflict involving the Final Exam, but we will assist to the extent possible.  If you know of a conflict, please send email directly to Dr Jor-el at jbriones@ucsd.edu, as soon as possible. 

You will NOT be allowed to bring a cheat sheet, and you will NOT be allowed to use calculators on the final exam. There will be no make-up Final Exam. Even under the most extenuating circumstances, if you take the final exam, you will not permitted to take the final exam a second time.

 

Professionalism Score:

This will usually be a free 1% of your grade, as my course tends to be pretty chill. You will automatically receive this professionalism grade in full, UNLESS you are egregiously unprofessional in this course. Some examples of this include:

• Bullying and/or harassment of other students or instructional staff
• Having a loud, unrelated meeting during office hours, in the office hours room
• Declining to leave the room when asked to do so by a member of the instructional staff
• Violating Academic Integrity
• Leaving an exam room and re-entering without having turned in the exam or without permission from a member of the instructional staff

Displaying such poor professionalism will cost this 1%. More egregious offenses, like violating academic integrity, will be met with other consequences as well.

 

Grading:

Course grades will be computed using the following weights:

Category	Weight
Participation	10%
Homework	24% (Equally weighted, lowest dropped)
Midterm Exam	25%
Final Exam	40%
Professionalism	1%

 

Grade Scale:              

Your final grade will be based on the following scale. (You will earn the grade in the table based on your numerical score or higher). If you get a failing grade on the final exam, you may receive a failing grade in the course regardless of your performance on other assignments.

Note that the actual "passing threshold" cutoff for both the final exam and the course itself MIGHT be BELOW 70%, but will be determined at the end of the quarter, and will be based on overall performance of the students in the course.

A	A-	B+	B	B-	C+	C	C-	F
93	90	87	83	80	77	73	70	< 70

 

A few general grading notes:

• Unlike in other courses, achieving a 97% or higher does NOT guarantee an A+ in the course. The thresholds or requirements for an A+ are often different and more strict, and reflective of consistent, exemplary work in the course. An A+ might be awarded to students who have earned at least an A and demonstrate exemplary effort, but will be awarded at the discretion of the instructor. Please do not ask to be granted an A+ if you have earned an A. The "cutoff" for an A+ may involve different metrics for performance in the course besides overall grade.
• The following will disqualify you from receiving an A+ in the course, as they all disrupt the process of getting grades out:
  • Asking what the cutoff for an A+ is
  • Asking for an A+ directly
  • Pointing out that your grade, or any part of it, is "high enough" for an A+
  • Asking why or pointing out that you did not receive an A+

• You must pass the final exam to pass the course, even if your weighted average is above a passing threshold.

   For this course, the default passing grade for the final exam is 70%. This threshold can be adjusted and is often adjusted, but that is left to the discretion of the instructor. Please do not ask me if a 70% is a passing grade, or if there will be a curve--I usually don't know if either would be the case until the very end of the course.
• Exams themselves are generally not curved. This may change in extreme cases–in particular, a curve is more likely (but not guaranteed) if the mean falls below 70% BUT students demonstrate sufficient understanding of material on average. These extreme cases are separate for the extreme cases of the passing threshold for the final exam.
• No one will know if the course itself is curved at all until after all grades are in. Even if it is determined there would be a curve, it is not guaranteed that such information or the nature of any curve would be given to students.

 

Course Policies:

Academic Integrity:

In this course we expect students to adhere to the UC San Diego Integrity of Scholarship Policy. This means that you will complete your work honestly, with integrity, and support an environment of integrity within the class.  Some examples of specific ways this policy applies to CSE 21 include:

• Do not discuss solutions to homework problems with people besides your homework partner (except during office hours, with the instructional team).
• Do not share written solutions with other groups.
• Do not collaborate on or copy parts of or whole exams or quizzes.
• Do not use online answer resources such as Chegg or CourseHero for any assignments
• Do not use any out of class resources WITHOUT citing them on your assignments
• Do not use an AI such as ChatGPT for any assignments

Follow the golden rule for AI:  Always give credit for any outside help on any assignment, except for those whose job it is to help you (Instructors, TAs, tutors, the textbook sections that we cover, and class handouts). You should not attempt to search for homework solutions or exam solutions online or in sources outside of the course content. (Example: you should not consult content from CSE 20 of past quarters.) If you accidentally stumble upon a homework solution in such an outside source you should cite it in your homework solution. If your solution proves to be too similar to the cited one, you may lose credit on the problem, and failure to cite the other solution will be treated as academic dishonesty. Moreover, if you use any sources outside of lectures, discussion sections, the textbook sections that we cover, and documents posted on the Modules Tab on Canvas, you MUST cite them. This INCLUDES office hours, past or current courses you are also taking, Wolfram Alpha. If you cite office hours as a source for any assignment, you must ALSO cite the day and the name of the tutor or IA who ran the office hours. Failure to cite outside sources will be regarded as academic dishonesty.

 

Collaboration Policy

For homework collaboration policy, see the paragraph above.

For Review quizzes, the Midterm Exam, and the Final Exam, you are not permitted to collaborate with anyone else (including people from outside of the class like message boards or StackOverflow, or Chegg). We will give you the opportunity to ask clarification questions to the teaching staff during quizzes and exams, though availability may be limited.

 

Regrade Policy

Please be prompt in reporting to Dr Jor-el (jbriones@ucsd.edu) any errors in the grading of your work, or in the recording of your grade. Regrade requests for homework assignments, Review quizzes, the Midterm Exam, and the Final Exam must be made on Gradescope. We will not lower your grade for a regrade request, but the net change of the request may be 0 points.  When you make a regrade request, you should specify exactly what the mistake in grading is, i.e., the wrong rubric item was selected or the rubric itself is inaccurate.  Vague requests for more partial credit will not be granted. Moreover, should it appear that you are asking for more points for the sake of gaining points, without valid reasoning behind such a change, we reserve the right to call you out on that and bluntly refuse your request.

 

Late or Missed Assignments/Missed Exam Policy

We will drop your lowest homework. Other than extenuating circumstances, there is no credit for late or missed assignments.

 

Technology Policy

For homework assignments, you are permitted to use calculators. You are NOT permitted to use calculators on exams.

 

Outside Tutoring

Individuals are not permitted to approach students to offer services of any kind in exchange for pay,  including tutoring services.  This is considered solicitation for business and is strictly prohibited by University policy. 

 

Resources for Students

 

Getting Help

We provide many office hours. Please use them. This class can be challenging if you don't engage with the teaching staff. 

Moreover, we also have a Piazza (linked in the Piazza Tab), and a Discord (Under Construction) on which you can ask for help from other students and instructional staff. Please do not publicly ask about specific solutions to problems--if you must ask about solutions or want to verify your own, please make a PRIVATE post on Piazza to the instructional staff.

The IDEA Engineering Student Center, located just off the lobby of Jacobs Hall, is a hub for student engagement, academic enrichment, personal/professional development, leadership, community involvement, and a respectful learning environment for all.  The Center offers a variety of programs, listed on the IDEA Center Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/ucsdidea/  <--Links to an external site (you are welcome to Like this page!) and the Center website at http://idea.ucsd.edu/ .  The IDEA Center programs support both undergraduate students and graduate students.

 

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to fostering a learning environment for this course that supports a diversity of thoughts, perspectives, and experiences, and respects your identities (including race, ethnicity, heritage, gender, sex, class, sexuality, religion, ability, age, educational background, etc.).  Our goal is to create a diverse and inclusive learning environment where all students feel comfortable and can thrive. 

Our instructional staff will make a concerted effort to be welcoming and inclusive to the wide diversity of students in this course.  If there is a way we can make you feel more included please let one of the course staff know, either in person, via email/discussion board, or even in a note under the door.  Our learning about diverse perspectives and identities is an ongoing process, and we welcome your perspectives and input. 

We also expect that you, as a student in this course, will honor and respect your classmates and the instructional staff, abiding by the UCSD Principles of Community ( https://ucsd.edu/about/principles.html ).  Please understand that others’ backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences may be different than your own, and help us to build an environment where everyone is respected and feels comfortable.

If you experience any sort of harassment or discrimination, please contact an instructor as soon as possible.   If you prefer to speak with someone outside of the course, please contact the Office of Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination: https://ophd.ucsd.edu/ 

 

Students with Disabilities

We aim to create an environment in which all students can succeed in this course.  If you have a disability, please contact the Office for Students with Disability (OSD), which is located in University Center 202 behind Center Hall, to discuss appropriate accommodations right away.  We will work to provide you with the accommodations you need, but you must first provide a current Authorization for Accommodation (AFA) letter issued by the OSD.  You are required to present their AFA letters to Faculty (please make arrangements to contact me privately) and to the OSD Liaison in the department in advance so that accommodations may be arranged.

 

Basic Needs/Food Insecurities

If you are experiencing any basic needs insecurities (food, housing, financial resources), there are resources available on campus to help, including The Hub and the Triton Food Pantry.  Please visit http://thehub.ucsd.edu/ for more information.