First Week: The Birth of Time
#1 M 1/5 Course Introduction. Lahr/Pastor
Creation of Time. Pastor
#2 W 1/7 Time and Music; Time measurement. Lahr
#3 F 1/9 'D Duck in Mathmagic Land' video clip. Lahr/Pastor/Discussion
One-page Paper due next Monday 1/12 on: What is Time?
Second Week: Listen to the Greeks
#4 M 1/12 Time, calendar, art, and ritual. Pastor
#5 W 1/14 Riddle of the Sphinx; Greek time. Lahr
#6 F 1/16 Student Presentations/Discussion
Third Week: Reckoning with Time: Philosophers and Mathematicians
No class Monday 1/19: Martin Luther King Day.
#7 W 1/21 Zeno's paradoxes. Lahr
#8 F 1/23 Death and the Compass; 'IQ' video clip I. Pastor
Fourth Week: A World of Clocks
#9 M 1/26 Spiritual Time/Social Time Pastor
#10 W 1/28 Galileo: time and space. Lahr
Thursday 1/29, 12:00-12:50 (x-hour): Exam 1
#11 F 1/30 'IQ' video clip II. Student Presentations/Discussion
Fifth Week: Harnessing Time
#12 M 2/2 The war against Time. Pastor
#13 W 2/4 Newton: time and space. Lahr
#14 F 2/6 Student Presentations/Discussion
Sixth Week: A World of Reason
#15 M 2/9 Clocks, metaphors, and Descartes' universe. Pastor
#16 W 2/11 Descartes/coordinates. Lahr
No class Friday 2/13: Winter Carnival
Seventh Week: On Relativity and Gato Time
#17 M 2/16 Time, consciousness, and body. Pastor
#18 W 2/18 Einstein and relativity. Lahr
Thursday 2/19, 12:00-12:50 (x-hour): Exam 2
#19 F 2/20 'Yellow Submarine' video clip. Student Presentations/Discussion
Eighth Week: Time and the Fourth Dimension
Two-page paper will be due Monday 2/23 (topic announced Friday 2/20): What is Time? [Paper must be informed by class materials and discussions to date.]
#20 M 2/23 Art and the fourth dimension. Pastor
#21 W 2/25 4D metrics; hypercubes; timescape. Lahr
#22 F 2/27 Banchoff video. Student Presentations/Discussion
Ninth Week: Past, Present, and Elsewhere
#23 M 3/2 Playing with Time in 100 Years of Solitude. Pastor
#24 W 3/4 Relativity, entropy. Lahr
#25 F 3/6 Smashing the clocks in 100 Years of Solitude. Pastor
Tenth Week: Wrapping It Up
#26 M 3/9 Conclusions/Discussion; Evaluations. Lahr/Pastor
The final exam, a seven-to-ten-page library research paper from a list of possible topics, is due on Friday, March 13, the first day of final exams, by 10:00 a.m. in 102A Kemeny.
