First Week: The Birth of Time
#1 M 1/7 Course Introduction. Lahr/Pastor
Creation of Time. Pastor
#2 W 1/9 Time measurement. Lahr
#3 F 1/11 'D Duck in Mathmagic Land' video clip. Lahr/Pastor/Discussion
One-page Paper due next Monday 1/14 on: What is Time?
Second Week: Listen to the Greeks
#4 M 1/14 Time, calendar, art, and ritual. Pastor
#5 W 1/16 Riddle of the Sphinx; Greek time. Lahr
#6 F 1/18 Student Presentations/Discussion
Third Week: Reckoning with Time: Philosophers and Mathematicians
No class Monday 1/21: Martin Luther King Day.
#7 W 1/23 Zeno's paradoxes; 'IQ' video clip I. Lahr
#8 F 1/25 Student Presentations/Discussion; Death and the Compass. Pastor
Fourth Week: A World of Clocks
#9 M 1/28 Spiritual Time/Social Time Pastor
#10 W 1/30 Galileo: time and space. Lahr
Thursday 1/31, 12:00-12:50 (x-hour): Exam 1
#11 F 2/1 'IQ' video clip II. Student Presentations/Discussion
Fifth Week: Harnessing Time
#12 M 2/4 The war against Time. Pastor
#13 W 2/6 Student Presentations/Discussion;
Newton: time and space. Lahr
No class Friday 2/8: Winter Carnival
Sixth Week: A World of Reason
#14 M 2/11 Clocks, metaphors, and Descartes' universe. Pastor
#15 W 2/13 Descartes/coordinates. Lahr
#16 F 2/15 Student Presentations/Discussion
Seventh Week: On Relativity and Gato Time
#17 M 2/18 Time, consciousness, and body. Pastor
#18 W 2/20 Einstein and relativity. Lahr
Thursday 2/21, 12:00-12:50 (x-hour): Exam 2 part I
#19 F 2/22 'Yellow Submarine' video clip. Student Presentations/Discussion
Two-page paper due Monday 2/25: What is Time? [Paper must be informed by class materials and discussions to date.]
Eighth Week: Time and the Fourth Dimension
#20 M 2/25 Art and the fourth dimension. Pastor
#21 W 2/27 4D metrics; hypercubes; timescape. Lahr
Thursday 2/28, 12:00-12:50 (x-hour): Exam 2 part II
#22 F 3/1 Banchoff video. Student Presentations/Discussion
Ninth Week: Past, Present, and Elsewhere
#23 M 3/4 Playing with Time in 100 Years of Solitude. Pastor
#24 W 3/6 Relativity, entropy. Lahr
#25 F 3/8 Student Presentations/Discussion;
Smashing the clocks in 100 Years of Solitude. Pastor
Conclusions/Discussion; Evaluations. Lahr/Pastor
The final exam, a five-to-six-page library research paper from a list of possible topics, is due on Monday, March 11, the first day of final exams, by 10:00 a.m. in 102A Kemeny.
