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Curricular Questions: When Changing One Thing Changes Everything

Prof. Tom Rishel

Cornell University

Friday, March 17, 2000 : 3PM to 4PM

Hylan 1106B

Tea following the talk in the Math Lounge (9th floor of Hylan).

Abstract:

I will discuss a number of new courses I have developed at Cornell over the past ten years or so. Some are writing-intensive, others feature "advanced" topics for undergraduates, a third type are about the topic of teaching itself. In each case, the curriculum and the audience have driven the course into new, and sometimes surprising directions. I will present a short list of some of the joys and sorrows of curricular changes.

Prof. Rishel is the co-author, with John Meier, of Writing in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics.

As of June 1st, 2000, Prof. Rishel will become the Associate Executive Director of the MAA (Mathematical Association of America).