1. CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Examines how infrastructure systems such as transportation, energy, water, and public facilities serve people and their activities. Teaches skills for infrastructure planning, evaluation, and implementation. 3 lecture-discussions, 3 hours of laboratory. Prerequisite: URP 335. Concurrent enrollment required.
    
2. EXPECTED COURSE OUTCOMES: Students should expect to:
   • Understand frameworks in which to conceptualize infrastructure.
   • Become familiar with various types of urban infrastructure sites, facilities, and services.
   • Explore methods for planning, evaluating and implementing social and physical infrastructure programs.
   • Develop skills in the oral, written, and graphic presentation of information about infrastructure and issues related to its provision.
   • Understand how citizen participation can influences infrastructural development
3. COURSE REQUIREMENTS
   • Attendance at all lectures (M 12-2:50), lab sessions(W 8-10:50 or noon-2:50), and field trips.
   • Timely completion of assigned readings.
   • Timely completion and submission of papers and labs.  Late papers (Paper 1 and Paper 2) will lose 10% of the possible points for each business day late. Late labs are subject to the late policy of your lab instructor.
   • Engagement in service learning addressing one or more of the expected course outcomes
      
4. EXAMINATIONS: There will be two exams, each worth 10% of the grade, and online quizzes totalling 10% of the grade.
    
5. INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS: Readings will be made available through Blackboard directly and via links to other websites and in a reader available at "Ask Copy" (3530 West Temple Ave., Pomona--just west of Carl's Jr.).  The current syllabus will be the online syllabus. Unless otherwise noted, all readings on the syllabus are required readings.
   
   
6. MINIMUM STUDENT MATERIALS
   Students will be expected to have access to computers in their homes or in University labs; word-processing and spreadsheet software will be used, and access to the world wide web will be required at times. Students should have an email account, either through the University (free) or a private provider. Responses to questions about current homework that are posed via email will be posted on the class web page (anonymously).
    
7. BASIS FOR GRADES
    

   Proportion	Work
   40 %	Labs (I=3, II=3, III=3, IV=3 V+VI=28*)** I-ASCE report card II-library III-solid waste IV-show me the money V-service VI-research
   30 %	Exams (2 x 10%) + quizzes (covering upcoming reading and previous lecture; summing to 10%)
   20 %	Short papers (1=8, 2=12)**
   10 %	Attendance and participation
   100 %	TOTAL

   *Lab V represents a service-related component for this course; Lab VI represents a research paper. Students will have some flexibility, through a learning contract, for designating how much each component counts towards the total of 28%. This will be briefly discussed during the first week and contracts will be due at the beginning of week 3.
   **Unless otherwise specified, assignments will be submitted in hard copy at the time they are due. Late lab assignments may be submitted at the discretion of the lab instructor. Labs V and VI may not be submitted late. Late short papers (Paper 1 and Paper 2) may be submitted late and will lose 10% of the grade for each business day they are late.
   
   
8. STATEMENT ON ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
   

   Be aware of University guidelines regarding academic integrity ("General Information" section of the 2007-08 University Catalog, especially pages 52-53): All forms of academic dishonesty at Cal Poly are a violation of University policy and will be considered a serious offense. That is, violations will be referred to the Office of Judicial Affairs and will result in failing grades on the assignment in question. Violations of #5 will result in a failing grade in the class. Academic dishonesty includes but is not limited to:

   1. "Plagiarism--intentionally or knowingly presenting words, ideas, or work of others as one's own work. . . [as well as] using one's own work completed in a previous class for credit in another class without permission. . . .
   2. Cheating during exams. . .
   3. Use of unauthorized study aids . . .
   4. Falsifying any University document--this includes . . .falsifying prerequisite requirements."
   5. Academic dishonesty also includes presenting fabricated data as authentic.
      
      
9. ACCESSIBILITY
   Students with special needs of which the instructor should be aware should advise the instructor as soon as possible.
   
10. SCHEDULE of ACTIVITIES--DRAFT--Subject to change (last updated Wednesday, 16 April, 2008 )
    Readings should be completed prior to the class for which they are assigned.

* Legend for where to find the readings:
(Blackboard) indicates that the reading is online, on the Blackboard page for URP 337. To get to the link to these readings, use the "Course documents" page.
(Reader #1) indicates the first packet of photocopied materials that can be purchased from ASK Copy.