Imagine you are a professor, charged with teaching a new course.

Emory University offers over

1,000 courses in a wide range of academic subjects. You are free to choose whatever subject
you want. What class would you create? What would you hope students would leave your class
having learned? (Dont forget to include your class title!) (250 word limit)


How the right brain and left brain theory has progress to become a barrier to our true potential
really annoys me. Instead of synthesising the theory to facilitate both our strengths and weaknesses,
scientist- Karl Wernicke- has focused mostly on how it limits us. It is true that the left brain processes
different data types from the right brain. However why should one be limited to half of the brain if one
was given an entire brain. These disturbing assertions have led me to wish for the inculcation of
Mathematics in Writing 101, designed to coalesce the principles of writing and axioms of mathematics.
Thus helping students exercise both sides of their brain.
Literary critic , ALEXANDER NAZARYAN What the left brain is to the right brain, mathematics is to
writers, a discipline so beguiling and foreign, so close to a taboo, that it actually attracts a few intrepid
souls by virtue of its impregnability. However, Mathematics in Writing 101 will break the barriers
resulting in writers of a different class and mathematicians of eloquence. Examples of writers who have
ventured headlong into high-level mathematicsLewis Carroll, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster
Wallacehave been among our most inventive in both the sentences they construct and the stories
they create.
I hope to leave my students understanding how the brain functions and how mathematics and
writing goes hand in hand, so that they may use what they learn, apply it to other interdisciplinary
academia and reach their true potential.