Course Curriculum Overview:
That depends entirely on the course and on the faculty! For example, if you only have one person who studies mathematical logic, they should teach the upper-division mathematical logic course.
There can also be courses that people prefer to teach - I like to teach “Contemporary Mathematics” because it is topical and applied, and the students who take it often have their whole view of what math is and who can do it changed (he-he-he, I love the part when they suddenly realize that they’ve been having fun doing math). I have a colleague at my smaller college who always teaches almost all of the stats - she enjoys stats, the rest of the math faculty doesn’t.
In larger departments or with a less congenial faculty, there is usually a department chair or the head of a committee. They sit down and wrangle out a schedule that feels equitable, then the faculty complain and things get shifted, and the “junior” faculty end up teaching the “bad” classes and it can get quite political and nasty!
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