The plan is to develop a web version of the course
which can be taken to some extent asynchronously. Class meetings will
be held normally at the request of course participants in order to go
through particular material with which help is needed. Chat sessions
might be a bit too much of a challenge given the need for symbols, but
I am open to suggestions. We will pick out 5 modules which have to be
completed in order to obtain the 5 points for the course. You
complete a module by creating new instances of certain designated
exercises from Partee, ter Meulen and Wall (different exercises for
different participants) and correctly solving your own exercises and
those produced by your classmates. I will also provide some
exercises. (This will also involve learning
how to produce electronically readable output. LaTeX is the standard
method for this and we can provide lots of help in terms of examples,
templates etc. to ease the pain.) If you solution to an exercise is
incorrect you will have to solve a new exercise of the same
type...until you get it right. (List of
exercises)
My hope is that we will not only learn the material but that the we will have as a result a web version of the course which it will be easy for people to take in the future using a combination of self-study and supervision and which can be further developed in the future.