Honors Interdisciplinary Seminar (IDS 175) TRUTH Course Schedule (Szydlik section)*

"I AM THAT I AM"

*Please note: The schedule given here is tentative and the activities and assignments are subject to change.  Also note the specific due dates for the section assessments.

IDS-175 section 004 will meet with Steve Szydlik in Clow 109 from the final hour of week 1 (September 14) through the second hour of week 7. 
IDS-175 section 005 will meet with Steve Szydlik in Clow 109 from the final hour of week 7 (October 26) through the second hour of week 13. 
Both sections of IDS-175 will meet in Clow 23 during the first two hours of week 1, during the last hour of week 13 and for the entire three hours of week 14.

Week 1 (9/14): Combined Session: Introduction

• Combined Session: Introduction & Course Overview (Clow 23)
• Flatland: Collect Writing Assignments / Group Discussion
• Individual Section Meetings (final hour): Szydlik, Section 004 (Clow 109)
  In Class Activity:  An introduction to axiom systems:  The town of Hilbert (handout)
  Assignment due September 21

Week 2 (9/21): Euclid and Axiom Systems

• Euclid's Elements and axiom systems
• Presentations on Euclidean Propositions
• In Class Activity:  Straightedge/Compass Constructions and Area Formulas (handouts)
  Assignment due September 28

Week 3 (9/28): The Mathematical Process

• Pythagorean Theorem presentations 
• The Proof (video) and discussion
  Assignment due October 5

Week 4 (10/5): Mathematics and Undecidability

• Discussion: "On the Nature of Mathematical Truth" 
• Godel and incompleteness 
• In Class Activity: Euler's formula 
  Assignment due October 12

Week 5 (10/12): What is mathematical truth?

• Discussion:  Lakatos and mathematical fallibility
• Proof that all triangles are isosceles 
• Problems with Euclid
• Assignment due October 19

Week 6 (10/19): Infinity

• Discussion:  Cantor and the Transfinite Realm
• Begin Section Exam Review
• Assignment due October 26

Week 7 (10/26): Section Exam and Section Interchange

• Review for Section Exam
• Section Exam

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Section 004 and Section 005 switch sessions following Section Exam

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