Course Outline and Schedule

DATE
TOPIC
REFERENCE
HOMEWORK
9/3

Introduction to the course





9/5

Working Effectively in Groups

In-class
9/8
Thinking Critically: Grandma's Cookies
In-class
 Handout
9/10
Social Choice: The Impossible Dream
     Majority Rule; Condorcet's Method; 
     Plurality Voting; 
Chapter 9: 9.1 - 9.2 Page 364-366/ Using Plurality and Condorcet Methods Only:  8,  10, 12, 14 
9/12
No class
   
      
9/15 Social Choice: The Impossible Dream
Borda Count, Hare, Sequential pair-wise, plurality run-off
9.2Page 364-366/7, 8 (b,c,d), 10 (b,c,d), 12 (b,c,d), 14 (b,c,d), 16, 18, 20, 24, 26
9/17 Social Choice:  The Impossible Dream
Arrow's Theorem, Approval Voting;  
9.3 - 9.4   
9/19Social Choice:  The Manipulability of Voting Systems
Chapter 10 through 10.2   
9/22Social Choice:  The Manipulability of Voting SystemsChapter 10 through 10.2    
9/24Social Choice:  The Manipulability of Voting SystemsChapter 10 through 10.3Due Friday: Page 387-388/ 12, 14, 16.
9/26Weighted Voting SystemsChapter 11.1