Calculus I (MATH 101 A, B, C)

Sabancı University, Fall 2025/26

This syllabus will receive small updates, especially during the first 2 weeks, including midterm dates and office hours

Lecturer (Section A): Ayesha Asloob Qureshi Lecturer (Section C): Matteo Paganin
e-mail: [Link]@[Link] e-mail: [Link]@[Link]
Office: FENS 1097 Office: UC 1089
Office Hours: TBA or by appointment Office Hours: TBA or by appointment
Lecturer (Section B): Gamze Kuruk Coordinators: Matteo Paganin
e-mail: [Link]@[Link] Gamze Kuruk
Office: UC 1089
Office Hours: TBA or by appointment

IMPORTANT: when you mail any of us include “101” in the subject

Class Hours: Section A: Mon 12:40 -14:30 in FENS G077, Tue 11:40 - 12:30 in FENS G077
Section B: Mon 14:40 - 16:30 in FASS G062, Tue 11:40 - 12:30 in FASS G062
Section C: Mon 11:40 -12:30 in FENS G077, Tue 12:40 - 14:30 in FENS G077

Recitation Hours: Fri 8:40 - 10:30 (A1 - A6), Fri 12:40 - 14:30 (C1 - C7),
Fri 10:40 - 12:30 (B1 - B7), Fri 14:40 - 16:30 (D1 - D3).
You are responsible for every announcement made in class or on SUCourse. Not attending the
class or not following SUCourse regularly is not an excuse, in case you miss something.

Textbook: Calculus Early Transcendentals 2nd Edition (Global Edition), Briggs, Cochran & Gillett. You can
purchase it at the bookstore on campus.
You will find a tentative breakdown of material at the end of the syllabus.

Learning Outcomes: On completion of this course the student should be able to:
1. Understand and use basic properties of elementary functions
2. Understand the idea of limit analytically/graphically, and evaluate limits
3. Understand the definition of derivative and its geometric meaning

4. Compute derivatives using standard differentiation techniques

5. Apply the notion of derivative graphing and optimization problems
6. Understand the definition of definite integral and its geometric meaning

7. Compute integrals using standard integration techniques

8. Understand the idea of integration over unbounded intervals and compute them.
Lectures and Recitations: Lectures are given in class as detailed above. Recitations are given in class as
detailed in your course schedule. Attendance is checked on both occasions.
Each recitation will consist of the following activities.
Problem solving: Assistants will discuss solutions of various exercises.

Group-study: Students are given a worksheet to work on, in groups, with the support of the Assistants.

Grading: The course grade depends exclusively on the following listed items. The details of each item are
discussed after the table. There will be no other extra-credit opportunities.
Midterm 1 27%
Midterm 2 27%
Final 40%
Recitation Attendance 6%
Lecture Attendance 5%

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 Exams: The midterms will be on the date and time listed below. Detailed information will be available on
SUCourse. The university will later announce the final exam date on MySU, which may be on any day between
04/01/2026 and 19/01/2026. Student Resources schedules the final exam, so do not plan to leave İstanbul before
19/01/2026 (especially if you need to take the Makeup, check below).
During the exams, students are only allowed to have pencils, pens, erasers, water, and napkins. All
other belongings will be left in a corner of the exam room. All electronic devices must be switched off. Any student
violating these rules will receive 0 points for that exam.
Midterm 1 TBA
Midterm 2 TBA
Final Scheduled and announced by SR, on MySU
Lecture Attendance: There will be 7 to 8 attendance checks, in the form of pop-up quizzes. Each quiz is valid
only if the student is in the room while the pop-up quiz is asked and if it shows some relevant effort to solve it.
There will be no makeup for any of these pop-up quizzes and the Lecture Attendance grade is determined by
the highest 5 scores. Students found having a behaviour in contrast with Academic Integrity, will receive 0 from the
Lecture Attendance grade component.
Recitation Attendance: Attendance will be taken by signature, in both hours. Students must actively attend
both full hours. Latecomers will not be allowed to sign the attendance sheet.
There will be no makeup for any missed recitation attendance. Each attended recitation is worth 1 point. The
highest 8 grades will determine the recitation participation grade. Students found having a behaviour in contrast
with Academic Integrity, will receive 0 from the Recitation Attendance grade component.
Each student is responsible for keeping track of their attendance records on SUCourse. If any is entered incor-
rectly, they must notify Gamze Kuruk, within 2 weeks from when the record is published. Students having medical
reports for an extended period of time (about a month or so) must contact Gamze Kuruk, without any delay.
Exams Make-up Policy: Students missing an exam and wishing to make it up, must contact Matteo Paganin
by mail, and provide a reason as soon as possible. For any health problem, a medical report must be given or checked
by SU Health Center within 3 days of the date of the report. Note: students taking an exam and also submitting a
health report, from any source different from the Sabancı Health Center, will be allowed to take the makeup only if
an instructor and the student fill in and sign the appropriate form during the exam.
Student Resources schedules the makeup exam which may be on any day between 14/01/2026 and 16/01/2026.
The makeup exam will contain all topics. The makeup will replace up to two exam grades. Only students that had
contacted Matteo Paganin with a valid excuse before the last days of the finals will be allowed to take the exam.
We do not take responsibility if we are contacted too late. There is no makeup for the makeup.
IMPORTANT: Every page of any paper submitted, in any occasion, is valid ONLY IF hand-written and
bearing name, surname, student ID number, and signature of the student. Non-valid pages will be entirely ignored.
Any attendance taken in the wrong section is invalid and discarded.
NA Policy: Students missing 2 exams or more will receive NA if they also miss the make-up.
In general, if there will be serious issues preventing you from regularly following the course, you are required to
contact the Gamze Kuruk. Please see also Class Discipline below.
Academic Integrity: All university policies on academic integrity apply to our course, and they will be enforced
(more information on [Link]
In general, to ensure Academic Integrity, any student might be asked to validate any activity contributing to
their grade in an interview (recorded, with audio and video). A student failing to explain the submitted work, or
refusing/missing the interview, will receive zero from that work.
In particular, no form of cheating is welcome in the exams, quizzes or any assignment, such as copying whole or
part of each other’s answers, using cheat-sheets etc. The action against such violations could range from getting a
zero on the particular assignment to explaining the case in front of the Disciplinary Committee.
AI-based Technologies in Education: In Math 101, students cannot use generative AI tools in classroom
activities related to Calculus, unless explicitly allowed by the course instructors and/or coordinators. Please keep
in mind that the course material is intellectual property of its author(s). It is made with care and it is intended for
your personal use, not to be shared outside our university without consent. Please read “FDD’s Position Statement
on AI-Based Technologies in Education” to guide you in deciding if and when to use AI tools in academic contexts.
Generative AI tools make mistakes and many of them are not easy to spot. No statement, solution, or result
from such tools should be considered correct without accurate checks.
Class Discipline: It is our responsibility to provide students with excellent teaching and learning environments.
We are therefore asking you to respect both our responsibility to teach and the right of other students to learn. Any
action that disturbs your classmates or disrupts the online activities is unacceptable. Repeated violations of the
above rules may cause a student to be counted as absent for a lecture or a recitation.

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General Suggestions:

• Always come to lectures and recitations with a notebook and a pen.

• Feel free to ask us and your Assistants questions in and out of class, especially during office hours.
• Remember that you do not have to be a math genius to be successful in this course. Regular study habits are
sufficient to get a decent grade.

• Attend the classes and recitation hours regularly. Make sure you attend your own (registered) recitation
section.
• Studying out of class for this course should become a routine. Key to success in mathematics is practice.
• GeoGebra and Desmos are useful softwares/websites to visualize many of the concepts we discuss.

Below is a tentative breakdown of topics (note: for the specific exam topics, please refer to the announcements).

Week Date Sections in the textbook

Week 1 Sep 29, 30 1.1, 1.2

Week 2 Oct 06, 07 1.2, 1.3
Week 3 Oct 13, 14 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Week 4 Oct 20, 21 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
Week 5 Oct 27 2.6, 3.1
Week 6 Nov 03, 04 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Week 7 Nov 10, 11 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9
Week 8 Nov 17, 18 3.10, 3.11, 4.1, 4.2
Week 9 Nov 24, 25 4.3, 4.4
Week 10 Dec 01, 02 4.5, 4.6, 4.7
Week 11 Dec 08, 09 4.9, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Week 12 Dec 15, 16 5.4, 5.5, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2
Week 13 Dec 22, 23 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
Week 14 Dec 29, 30 7.8