The book report must be typewritten, double-spaced, with correct punctuation, grammar and spelling. All essays must be typewritten, double-spaced, with correct punctuation, grammar and spelling. Your first essay assignment is to find a periodical, magazine or web article which deals with some aspect of symmetry. You must write a two-page essay critiquing this article. Your reference must be clearly cited.
Many students have difficulty seeing the relevance of their education to the rest of their lives.
This is not to say that course material is irrelevant, merely that the connections are sometimes hard to see. To facilitate the process of making connections, you can keep a journal and scrapbook to record your on-going interrelationship with the subject matter of the course. The journal is to be a record of your personal interaction with our subject matter, and helps enhance and articulate such interaction. It will be handed in periodically for review, and on the last submission in totality it will be graded on the basis of how well it has fulfilled its intended function. Hermann Weyl wrote a classic book entitled Symmetry.