SCIENCE & SOCIETY 1
Critical Inquiry in Contemporary Issues

Fall 2006


Class Syllabus

Lecture Schedule

Instructors and Office Hours


Class Readings

"Slides from Carl Winter's lecture on population", 10/3/05 - Download

"Slides from Carl Winter's lecture on immigration", 10/3/05 - Download

"Carl Winter's lecture on pesticides", 10/10/05 - Download

"Carl Winter's lecture on risk", 10/17/05 - Download

"Stages of Thinking" from Carl Winter's lecture on truth, 10/3/06 - Download

"Carl Winter's recent article on organic foods" - not required reading but have a look if you are interested, 10/19/06 - Download

"Danielle Knueppel's lecture on agricultural biotechnology", 10/19/06 - Download

"Kent Bradford's lecture on agricultural biotechnology", 10/19/06 - Download

"Leslie Lyons' lecture on animal cloning", 10/24/06 - Download

"Xuyang Zhang's lecture on GIS and Society", 10/26/06 - Download

"Nicole Mans' lecture on Biological Control of Pests", 10/26/06 - Download

"Arnold Bloom's lecture on global climate change", 11/7/06 - Download

"Jeffrey Mount's lecture on flood management - PART 1", 11/14/06 - Download

"Jeffrey Mount's lecture on flood management - PART 2", 11/14/06 - Download

"Alf Brandt's outline for presentation on flood management", 11/14/06 - Download

"Carl Winter's lecture on Communication of Science", 11/28/06 - Download

"Carl Winter's lecture on organic foods", 11/30/06 - Download

"Carl Winter's article on organic foods", 11/30/06 - Download

"Patricia Monahan's presentation on alternative fuels", 12/5/06 - Download

"Bryan Jenkins' presentation on biofuels", 12/5/06 - Download


Assignments

Assignment 1 - due in discussion section during the week of 10/16/06

Assignment 2 - due at the end of lecture on Tuesday, November 21

Final Exam - due at 12:00 noon on Monday, December 11, in 152 Hutchison Hall