Greetings,

I'm teaching a one-off course (perhaps never to be repeated) in a curriculum that's in transition, and I'm looking for advice on a textbook, or stories from people who have taught similar transitional-curriculum courses would be interesting as well.

The context is that we are creating a 2nd year analysis course which would be our students 1st exposure to analysis. This is to be followed up by a 3rd year analysis course which would be something of a "rigorous multi-variable calculus course". Next year the 3rd year course is going to be offered but the students will not have the 2nd year course as background (in future years the 2nd year analysis course will be a prerequisite).

What they will have is a fairly extensive "service calculus" background, consisting of four courses: a more or less standard 2-course 1st year single-variable calculus sequence (text is Edwards and Penney), plus a 2nd year multi-variable calculus course (also Edwards and Penney - this is a standardish calculus in $\mathbb R^n$ for $n \leq 3$ text). They follow that up with a a 3rd year course on multi-variable calculus in $\mathbb R^n$, the text is Folland. This course also covers some material that is traditionally taught in analysis classes, things like uniform convergence, Fourier transforms and such. But very little time is spent fussing about with open subsets of $\mathbb R^n$, they don't get to see bump functions, what a function is isn't discussed in much detail, what numbers are isn't dwelled on (not even axiomatically).

So, that's the setup. It can be safely assumed these students are motivated to study analysis, as they're taking this course to transition into our upper-level analysis courses. But I can't do too much too fast. And I don't want to bore them. So things of importance for this course to dwell on are things like what numbers are (at least axiomatically), maybe even a bit of set theory, completeness, fussy details about continuous functions like when extreme values exist, the various formulations of continuity for functions on open subsets of $\mathbb R^n$. Bump functions. And fussy details from multi-variable calculus, such as the inverse and implicit function theorem.

Are there texts out there that are designed for situations like this?

One initial inclination would be to supplement something like Hubbard's calculus text with some additional foundational notes. I suppose there are many standard intro analysis courses but some of these might be oddly paced for this group of students. I presume it's unlikely anyone has written a text for just this situation but who knows?

Thanks in advance for your comments.