Instructor: Dr. Lucas van der Merwe

Office: EMCS 417B

Telephone: 425-4564

Webpage: www.utc.edu/Faculty/Lucas-vandermerwe/

Office hours: Tuesday, 3-5pm, or Thursday 4:30-5:30 pm, or by appointment

Text: Introduction to Graph Theory, Gary Chartrand and Ping Zhang. McGraw Hill, 2005.

Course description: Core topics include an overview of graph theory and its applications, trees, planar graphs and graphical invariants such as Hamiltonicity, domination, coloring and matchings.

Prerequisite: Math 300 with at least a C.

Assignments and Grades: There will be three examinations each counting 100 points and a final exam that will count 150 points. In addition, there will be assignments and quizzes for various point values. The total number of points scored divided by the total number of possible will determine the course average. Course grades will then be assigned using the scale:

A: 90-100 B:80-89 C: 70-79 D: 60-69 F: Below 60

Make-up policy: Quizzes cannot be made-up. A test can be made-up, under unusual circumstances such as sickness or death in the family, as long as it is arranged with the instructor at or before the actual test time. There will be no retake of any test or quiz.

Calculators: This is a calculator-free environment.

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