COURSE COORDINATOR RESPONSIBILITIES
 (Work in Progress)

• Meet with all section instructors at beginning of semester.  In the meeting the course coordinator should:
1. Standardize topics covered and the depth they are covered.
2. Discuss the syllabus and what is appropriate and inappropriate to include.
3. Go over prerequisite verification procedures.
4. Discuss number of tests and level of difficulty of tests.  This should be fairly uniform over all the sections.
5. Discuss Directed Tutors or SI’s (for 1010 and 1100).
6. Discuss strategies to keep students happy while still maintaining academic standards.
7. Make sure all TA’s know they can get help from the coordinator when they need it.
• Be a liaison between the Math Lab and the instructors for the course.  In this role the course coordinator will:
1. Keep instructors informed concerning topics that students are asking about in Math Lab.
2. Keep Math Lab informed about what is going on in the course.  For example, if all instructors are teaching completing the square in a certain way, then the Math Lab staff needs to be aware of this.
• Hear student complaints concerning this course, including concerns about the instructor.   This involves:
1. Reading student concerns forms and then talking to students.
2. Informing instructor of the concerns.  This is done to let the instructor know that a student had a concern so the instructor can think about what, if anything should be changed in the class.
3. In rare cases direct the student with the concern to the chair.
• Modify the  course syllabus based on
1. Input from the instructors
2. Input from Math Lab
3. Input from students
4. Discussion with coordinators of prerequisite courses, coordinators for other courses having this course as a prerequisite, and previous coordinators of this course.
5. Discussion with the Math Dept. Undergraduate Committee Chair.
6. New book adoption.