Math 196 - Freshman/Sophomore Honors Seminar
Description
Math 196 is a seminar that counts towards the Honors Track’s seminar requirement. Every week, the seminar meets once to look at a presentation. At the start of the course, most of these presentations are given by faculty, but by the end of the semester a majority of presentations are usually from students enrolled in the course. Student presentations, including questions at the end, typically last for close to the full duration of the 80 minute period.
Topics covered
There is no standard list of topics covered in this course, owing to its student-driven seminar structure. There may be some theme the professor running the course may want students to abide by in their presentations.
Comments on prerequisites
Unofficial/suggested additional prerequisites: Math 300.
Usually, students in this seminar course have already finished 300; some students, mainly freshmen, are concurrently enrolled in 196 and 300H.
Resources
Textbook
There is no common textbook for this course. Some instructors may recommend certain texts as a source for presentation material, but this heavily depends on the iteration of the course.
Additional materials
A previous course page from when the seminar was run by János Komlós in Spring 2023 may be found online at https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~komlos/useminar/.