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I agree with the comments by Dan. I'm presently teaching a
particle physics course for juniors and seniors, and I've decided to use
Dan's Option #3. The official text for the course is Griffiths'
"Introduction to Elementary Particles" which provides the clearest
treatment, but it suffers from the weaknesses described by Dan. In fact,
for the first half of the course, I've spent most of the time developing a
lot of the machinery (e.g.,time dependent perturbation theory in the
interaction picture) and background (e.g., non-relativistic QED) which
bridges the gap between the physics they know (1st semester quantum) and
particle physics. In this way, I hope to provide some deeper understanding
of what the Feynman diagrams really mean and motivation for the Feynman
rules that Griffiths just writes down.