The final project: Students had the option to complete a final project, an expository paper on a topology subject of their choice, in lieu of a final exam. Some of these are available below.
Alan Du: Homology, Brouwer's fixed-point theorem, and invariance of domain
Nick Holfester: Higher homotopy groups: why pi_n is abelian for n>1
Maxwell Jakubowicz: Exploration of singular homology
Destine Lee: The torus trick
Ruoxi Li: The Tychonoff theorem
Deval Mehta: The existence of classifying spaces for principal G-bundles
Carson Teitler: On Haar measure